Iranian Madness

On a lighter tone, it’s interesting to see how good ideas can be spoilt by poor implementation. And this time it’s involving no less than China, Iran’s largest ally in the nuclear tally (and in the struggle to keep laws that constantly ignore basic human rights).
The issue here is about jeans: the attempt to [...]

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When you see police patrolling the alleys and destroying the vehicles that are parked there, it’s a clear sign that the regime has weakened big time.
Now that the street protests have largely been quieted the rough way, and anyway the foreign media cannot report them, a question looms: how will life go on in Iran?
The [...]

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Change is ripe in Iran: a mixed football game has been organized in Tehran.
Of course the promoters were then punished and suspended – but it’s the sign that things are slowly changing over there. And small, daily life things count perhaps more than a new president.
Who wants to bet with me that in ten [...]

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Interessante sapere che l’industria Khodro, oltre a fare le Peugeot, le Citroen e le mitiche Samand, sta realizzando un’auto per donne.
Chi trova l’errore nell’articolo vince un viaggio da Teheran a Shiraz su una Samand scassata.

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Here we go again with dress codes. Many have heard that hardliners in Iran have attacked Italian fashion company Benetton (see also here for more information). The excuses are plenty: the company is “Zionist” (a generic label to imply that they are involved somehow with Israel), it has a bad influence on Iranian women and [...]

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