Persicus Maximus

I tried finding an English clip to embed here, but I could not find a single one not ridiculing the event. I noticed there was even an attempted diversion with stories of detonations at sites, so I decided to put this up for the time being (Persian language report) until a better English clip is found. I hope they look good after the Monkey,afterall we don't want it getting assassinated by Mossad killers.

If you have never heard of the Mosaique religion or of the Djougoutes, an ethnic group including up to 12,000 Iranians, you are not alone. They do not exist. But they helped save thousands from Nazi death camps in World War II, when an Iranian diplomat made them up out of whole cloth in a daring ploy to conceal the real identity of over 2,000 Jews in German-occupied France. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, when the world remembers the tragedy of the Holocaust, the story of Abdol Hossein-Sardari, the Iranian consul in Nazi-occupied France during the war, strikes a chord. Not only does it recall Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who inspired "Schindler’s List", the 1993 Oscar-winning film by Steven Spielberg; it may have been even more daring than  Schindler's use of his good relations with the Nazis to employ hundreds of Jews in his factories, shielding them from death after the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Sardari actually managed, in his...

Assange said WikiLeaks had managed to get hold of a copy of the script of the DreamWorks movie. And he doesn't like what he's read. "It is a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks the organisation," the 41-year-old Australian told students in Oxford via a video-link from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. "But it is not just an attack against us - it is an attack against Iran. "It fans the flames to start a war with Iran." Assange said the opening scene was set in a military complex in Tehran and showed Iran was working on an atomic weapon. "How does this have anything to do with us?" he said. A subsequent scene in Cairo showed an Iranian nuclear scientist talking with a CIA agent. The scientist says Iran is testing the explosive in the next six months. But Assange said in actual fact, the US's own intelligence agencies had confirmed Iran didn't have a nuclear weapons program. "It's...

Aaron Swartz  1986 - 2013

Kevin B.Lee eloquently wrote : Now that Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage drama “ARGO” has garnered seven Oscar nominations to add to its mantle, upon which already sit $110 million in domestic box office, near unanimous acclaim from critics, and even a whisper campaign for Affleck to run for John Kerry’s soon-to-be vacated Senate seat, it needs to be said: Argo is a fraud. Sure, Argo ’s an easily consumable mashup of well-worn genres (exotic adventurer, political caper flick, derelict daddy redemption movie, Hollywood insider satire) whose geopolitical themes make it feel smart and important. One could even say that it’s good at what it does: giving these old Hollywood formulas a fresh coat of vintage 1970s paint (color: avocado). But this tactic is what makes the film not merely overrated, but reprehensible. Its modest achievements point to larger failures both in the film and in Hollywood’s ability to regard the world honestly. Perhaps my disgust wouldn’t be as intense if it wer...