Iranian Madness

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.
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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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After women-only taxis, the next conquer land for Iranian women is buses: watch this one at work in this excellent video by Sadaf Foroughi.
The hardliners won’t admit it, but change is happening right now in Iran, and it can only be women who bring it forward. Anyone who’s known the force of mother nature that [...]

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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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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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I want eyes is one of my favourite songs, written by Level 42 back in 1983.
I dedicate it to Neda and the Iranian people.

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I have just found an excellent article from the NYT’s Roger Cohen.
Nothing to add, really. He’s right on all fronts.

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I place my bet on Mirhossein Mousavi. He’ll win by a low margin on Ahmadinejad, and there will be cross-accusations of cheating. At the end, the conservatives will keep ruling the country, but there’ll be a swift change in economic policies and an increase of freedom for the man (and mostly the woman) on the [...]

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After the unreachable levels of Reza Zarei, another hero is striving to get to the top of the scandal list of Iran.
This time, it’s the head secretary of the Swiss embassy, caught in flagrant violation of Iran’s strict sex segregation rules.
In fact, this would have been a crime in many European countries as [...]

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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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