For an article on this ancient fire festival, its particular significance this year, and the regime's longstanding efforts to counter pre-Islamic Iranian traditions, please click here. For more footage from chahar shanbeh souri, please click here.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
And on a lighter note... Such, such were the joys: Images of chahar shanbeh souri
For an article on this ancient fire festival, its particular significance this year, and the regime's longstanding efforts to counter pre-Islamic Iranian traditions, please click here. For more footage from chahar shanbeh souri, please click here.
Children jumping over fires at school... I guess the teachers did not receive Leader Ali Khamenei's fatwa against celebrating this corrupt and harmful tradition.
Children jumping over fires at school... I guess the teachers did not receive Leader Ali Khamenei's fatwa against celebrating this corrupt and harmful tradition.
'Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon. My life only for Iran': Images of chahar shanbeh souri
For an article on this ancient fire festival, its particular significance this year, and the regime's longstanding efforts to counter pre-Islamic Iranian traditions, please click here. For more footage from chahar shanbeh souri, please click here.
In footage purportedly from Rasht, near the Caspian coast in northern Iran, the crowd chants, 'Death to the dictator' and 'Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, my life only for Iran,' a slogan made popular during mass protest rallies on Ghods Day.
In footage purportedly from Rasht, near the Caspian coast in northern Iran, the crowd chants, 'Death to the dictator' and 'Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, my life only for Iran,' a slogan made popular during mass protest rallies on Ghods Day.
'Seyed Ali, the thing missing in this fire is you': Images of chahar shanbeh souri
For an article on this ancient fire festival, its particular significance this year, and the regime's longstanding efforts to counter pre-Islamic Iranian traditions, please click here. For more footage from chahar shanbeh souri, please click here.
'This is Oroumiyeh, the Paris of Iran,' the cameraman says of the capital of West Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran. In the last shot of the film, he says, '2010's chahar shanbeh souri is over. Seyed Ali (NB Leader Ali Khamenei), the thing missing in this fire is you. I see the day when you will burn in this fire. That's my heart's fondest wish. Death to you. Death to Khamenei. Murderer!'
'This is Oroumiyeh, the Paris of Iran,' the cameraman says of the capital of West Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran. In the last shot of the film, he says, '2010's chahar shanbeh souri is over. Seyed Ali (NB Leader Ali Khamenei), the thing missing in this fire is you. I see the day when you will burn in this fire. That's my heart's fondest wish. Death to you. Death to Khamenei. Murderer!'
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