The ambitions and intensified accomplishments of the Commander Firouzabadi,  – Chief of Staff, Armed Forces.

* * Below: A video of a song dedicated to the Iranian laborers and Syndicate activists. In the beginning of the video, Mansoor Osanlou, jailed labor leader and president of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs (Vahed) Bus Company speaks: “I revolted; I revolted so that I can have independence, to have freedom, to have social justness and civil rights, so my wife doesn’t go hungry for dinner, so that they do not take and sell our girls to Dubai, Islamabad, Karachi and Kuwait and sell them into prostitution out of destitution…”

* * Iran not invited! Representatives of countries with ancient cultures and history participated in the International Cooperation for the Protection and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage hosted by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). Global culture officials from twenty countries such as Greece, Italy, China, Peru and Libya took part in the two day conference in Cairo; clearly unrepresented in the conference were representatives from the government of Iran.

The purpose of the conference was to discuss ways to recover ancient artifacts from western museums which are said to be stolen and the “protection and restitution of cultural heritage.”

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has called on all ministers and cultural heritage representatives of the countries that participated in the conference to appeal to UNESCO to draw up new conventions regarding the prohibition of the removal of antiquities from countries of origin to other countries.

In recent months the Iranian regime has been involved in full on tug of war with the British Museum over the display of the Cyrus Cylinder.

* * Advertising or defilement? The Iranian regime-run website Parcham reports that during the Norooz holidays fabrics made for Chadors (long veils worn by women as seen in above photo) with patterns of the U.S. and Israeli flags have been on sale in Southern Iran. The fabrics that were being sold by street vendors are said to have been very reasonably priced and of very good quality. Some news reports claim that the fabrics have been smuggled into Iran though some of the vendors are said to have had importation licenses.

There are also recent reports of the sale of blankets with the same U.S. and Israeli flags imported from both Dubai and China!

* * Below: A video of the most foul-mouthed “diplomat” ever! The man in this video is one of the Iranian regime’s embassy officials in Germany. An Iranian activist in Munich approaches the Iranian regime representative who is exiting a posh building and politely asks him: “Excuse me, may I ask you a question?” The man, who is on the phone and is angrily trying to bypass the cameraman then responds: “F*** your whore mother”. The cameraman then comments: “Death to the Islamic Republic”. The angry then official turns around to attack the cameraman, but when he sees that he is being filmed he stops but he  says: “Shut your mouth!”, the cameraman responds: “You should shut up.” At that point, the official walks away, at which point the cameraman tell him: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? I’ve recorded you too…did you know that?” In the background then, protesters are heard chanting: “Political prisoners must be freed unconditionally.”

* * Below: A video of continued anti-regime graffiti and postering throughout Iran, as the International Workers Day (May 1st) approaches. . Some years they organized counter demonstrations of their own to oppose the demonstrations organized by the workers themselves and in other instances they have done large scale sweeps of arrests of important labor leaders.