Amir Hamz, a German of Iranian descent, chronicles O-hum and seven other Iranian groups from the country's evolving underground music scene in his documentary, Sounds of Silence. The film, which was shot in 2004 during two weeks in Iran and a few days in London, has been screening at international festivals for the past year. It features the artists who have turned to the Internet to distribute the music that Ayatollah Khomeini banned in 1979, saying, "It destroys our youth who become poisoned by it." Despite Khomeini's words, the government's cultural censors-called Ershad-didn't begin cracking down on live performances of young Iranian musicians until 2001 as bands like O-hum found success. In Sounds of Silence, one of the most profound voices belongs to Mohsen Namjoo, a graying 30-ye...
You wouldn't know it from the Obama administration, but North Korea's global threat continues to metastasize. South Korea recently concluded that extensive cyber-attacks against civilian and military targets in the South emanated from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Following China's lead in information warfare, the North is creating yet another asymmetric military capability it can deploy against its adversaries and also peddle for hard currency to other rogue states and terrorists. Although Pyongyang limited its targeting of this particular sortie to South Korea, the potential cyberwarfare battlefield is global and includes the United States, which already is the subject of extensive cyberprobing, exploitation and espionage by China. For a country perennially on the ...
TEHRAN, Iran - Hard-line Iranian protesters stormed British diplomatic compounds Tuesday, hauling down the Union Jack, torching an embassy vehicle and pelting buildings with petrol bombs in what began as an apparent state-approved show of anger over the latest Western sanctions to punish Tehran for defiance over its nuclear program. The hours-long assault on the British Embassy and a residential complex for staff - in chaotic scenes reminiscent of the seizing of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 - could push already frayed diplomatic ties toward the breaking point.
[...] Golestan shopping center assumes a new range of functions, including: a manifestation of global modernity, a sexualized space, a carnivalesque environment, and, above all, a subcultural capital of "disorder, anarchy, [and] the inversion of social norms and codes" (p. 114).
The brazen Iranian terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, kill Americans and blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington was a wake-up call. The radical regime in Tehran has crossed a red line. Iran has murdered Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon over the years. Now it appears to have ordered terrorist attacks inside our nation's capital. Should this prove true, Iran has engaged in an act of war. Now the question is: Who will neutralize the threat from Iran before the mullahs finish building nuclear warheads and the ballistic missile systems to deliver them?
Welcome to our revolution," said a friend of an Iranian friend in Tehran. "Thank you," I replied as we shook hands. "But which revolution do you mean? Another young Iranian woman who grew up mostly in Europe and voted for [Hossein Mousavi] told me,"I protested after the elections, but only at first. It isn't worth making the ultimate sacrifice - my freedom." She referred to the dozens of protesters who were killed and the hundreds who remain imprisoned, and said she was unsure whether the elections were rigged. Most people she knew in Tehran had voted for Mousavi, but "Iran is a large country," she said, "and most of its population lives outside Tehran. Many people here, including me, do not understand this part of Iran" I looked to the young Basij member. "Mousavi?" I asked him, and ...
When there's political upheaval in Tehran, it's often interwoven with the explosive question of possible outreach to the United States. And that may be the case with a recent feud between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The key figure in this dispute is Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff and said to be his choice as successor in the next Iranian presidential elections scheduled for 2013. In recent months, Mashaei is said to have initiated a series of contacts attempting to open a dialogue with the United States.
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