Posts under ‘Iran’

from the New Yorker:
Perhaps no one has done more to undermine the effect of forced confessions than Ebrahim Nabavi, an exiled Iranian satirist who has released a parody confession video. Dressed in striped pajamas and wearing bandages, he confesses to meeting with a C.I.A. agent, importing green velvet, and having affairs with Carla Bruni and [...]

via Global Voices Online:
As Tehran Post once noted, the most popular genre of jokes in Iran is the ethnic joke. The main protagonists of most ethnic jokes are Azeri Turks. In this video Khatami tells [fa] a joke about a naive (Azeri) cleric in Ardebil who did something stupid, although his intention was to show [...]