Persianesque: Iranian Magazine

Watch this video of Stephen Harper, Canada’s 22nd and current Prime Minister, as he explains why Canada is boycotting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN and references Iran’s “detainment of Canadian citizens” and ”flagrant abuse of human rights.”

“There’s no way I’m going to permit any official of the government of Canada to be present,” says the Prime Minister.

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Iranians and Americans gathered together in New York outside the Iran mission to the United Nations, to collectively protest Ahmadinejad’s presence.

In addition to the green-clad groups of people chanting anti Iranian regime and anti-Ahmadinejad slogans, a woman is shown laying on the ground, while a man paints red blood-like marks on her face in an attempt to replicate the now infamous bloody death of a young Iranian woman–who was merely a passerby during this summer’s highly intense protests against the results of the Iranian election when she was shot in the chest–Neda Soltan.

You must watch this video of one of the most clever protest platforms we’ve seen thus far, used to voice distaste against Ahmadinejad yesterday in New York.

The art installation consists of people dressed in all white clothing to double as a “human screen” while a compilation of videos and images from this summer’s protests in Iran are projected on them.

Sad but powerful.

Congratulations to Venice Film Festival winner: Shirin Neshat!

Click here to watch modern Iranian artist, Shirin Neshat and her green-clad entourage on the red carpet at the 66th annual Venice Film Festival, where she was awarded with the accolade: Silver Lion for Best Director, for her film Zanaan Bedoneh Mardaan (Women Without Men).

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