Iranian Madness

Il settimanale Panorama ha pubblicato un’interessante intervista a Pietro Masturzo, vincitore del World Press Photo Award 2009.
Che emozione che dev’essere stata vivere quelle notti insieme al popolo iraniano!

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Come avevo già scritto in inglese, il premio della World Press per la miglior foto del 2009 è stato assegnato a un giovane fotografo italiano, Pietro Masturzo. E mi fa ovviamente piacere che il soggetto sia iraniano, e precisamente un tetto di una casa di Teheran nei giorni immediatamente successivi alle elezioni del giugno 2009.
Un’interessante [...]

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It’s great to see an Italian photographer, Pietro Masturzo, win the World Press Photo of the year award for 2009 with a picture on Iran.
The black and white photo, showed below, depicts women shouting slogans against the regime from the rooftop of a house in Tehran. This mode of protesting is reminiscent of the 1979 [...]

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It’s interesting to see the ups and downs of the seemingly never-ending relationship between Iran and Italy.
Not many people know that Italy owns the largest private piece of land in Tehran (and probably in the whole Iran): the ambassador’s residence in Farmanieh, with its flourishing garden of rare trees and its Qajar-style buildings, is [...]

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Non manca la fantasia, in Iran: prima il quotidiano Emrooz, vicino al sindaco di Teheran Mohamed Bagher Ghalibaf, si inventa un logo che ricorda una ballerina stilizzata.
E poi, ovviamente, i bacchettoni conservatori fanno il loro dovere.
L’Iran è bello anche per questo: la battaglia si gioca su molti fronti, alcuni che fanno ridere (amaramente).

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It appears that the people of Iran are starting to have enough of the government and its continuous suppression of the largely peaceful protests that keep gathering a growing number of people in the streets of Tehran.
The institutions take these seriously, so much that they have now revived previous plans to relocate the capital [...]

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Nice of the Netherlands to issue a 44-cent stamp with Mousavi’s combat tag.
Will this help the situation? by judging from Ahmadinejad’s recent speech, and the equally senseless reaction from Israel, I’d say no.

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The international media are (understandably) putting less emphasis on the Iranian situation, but nonetheless protests continue.
A few recent events:
1) On 6 August, green activists (supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi) blocked the Modarres Highway (it seems to be the Mirdamad overpass, but I cannot be sure from the pics)
2) Iranians keep shouting “Allah-o-akbar” (God is great) [...]

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I just stumbled into a great article that contains the testimony of a British-Greek journalist, Iason Athanasiadis, who got to spend some time in the dreaded Evin prison, of which most of the political dissidents have been a guest at some point in time.
His recounts of blindfolded interrogations, slaps and dark rooms without a bed [...]

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Chi non conosce Persepolis, il libro autobiografico a fumetti dell’autrice iraniana Marjane Satrapi?
Grazie all’ottima rivista Internazionale, possiamo leggere l’opinione dell’autrice in un articolo che spiega, tra le altre cose, la ragione che spinge gli iraniani a protestare, e ci fa pensare che la rivolta iraniana non abbia esaurito i suoi colpi.

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