After one year of debate on "To publish or not to publish 50000 Rials bill", they have published it last week. Some economists argued "By publishing this, you will raise the inflation"; But I think when the price of a house is doubled during the last year, it is logical to publish new bills. Maybe the more logical act would be eliminating some zeros from this weak Rial.

Anyway, This is our 50000 Rial bill which equals to less than 5 Euros.



For me, this piece of paper is more like a Political/Ideological Placard than a bill. It shows a map of Iran with the "Persian Gulf" written on it. In addition it has an Nuclear Energy sign and a saying of Prophet Mohammad about knowledge on it. I bet the other side includes a photo of Khomeini.

have a look at This nice collection of photos from. Then add some bombs to the photos using your imagination; Attack to Iran if the result looks attractive. We have problems here, we have human rights violations, we have obligatory was of coduncts, we have Ahmadinejad as our "selected" (not elected) president and we do not have to say we are against authorities. But BOMBs will not improve our situation.

Although I am in Kabul but this recent arrest (among them one of my organizations board members (Sussan Tahmasebi), Three of my colleagues Maryam Mirza, Mahboube Hoseinzadeh and Asieh Amini) made my boss to decide to add an English section to our "Civil Society's News site". He emailed me to work on the English section from here because it's launch is vital. I am glad that we are going to have an English section. I have started to design it and will try to finish the first functional version just today! We need more and more news in English and other languages.

The few activists who are outside of the prison are deciding if they are going to celebrate 8th of March in streets or not. It will be VERY dangerous and most of the brave participants are in prison. I will not be in Tehran at 8th of March. May be I am lucky because I don't know what should I do.

The photo is Shadi Sadr, A famous Iranian lawer. She is among arrested people. Source: Kosoof

I am traveling to Afghanistan for one week. My friend and I are going to train some technical persons in Radios to create fast, easy and active websites.

But there are also some other news. Bad ones first ? yes ! so we will be able to finish with good ones. Three of our friend and two of my colleagues are on trial for peaceful demonstration (read more from human rights watch), among them are my good friend and colleague Sussan Thamasebi. Their trial is on Sunday and don't forget that in Iran, judiciary is totally dependent to the Supreme Leader.

Oh but let's finish with the good news. Eight of March is on the way, just one week. As women's movement is the main and most strong movement in Iran, the 8th of March is an important day. It is illegal, but celebrated in recent years.

Next one? A group of my friends are going to organize an protest against obligatory departure(pushing out) the Afghan workers from Iran. Government treat these people very bad an unhumanly and our friends want to protest against it and at least say "Hey government! your treatment is not fair, these people worked here (although illegally) for years in Iran and made our country, you can not treat them as criminals". Good and brave campaign. I will send photos of this event as soon as possible.

More? yes. Tomorrow an NGO which my wife works with (Hastiandish) is going to Pre-Celebrate(!) the 8th of March by handing out brochures in the mountains. Many people go to these mountains to spend their leisure day.

And we are going to celebrate the "4 shanbe soori" in a couple of weeks. A great ceremony: the last Wednesday of the year in Persian calendar. It is a pre-Islamic ceremony and Islamic government tried to ban it for years but it is still alive. I have to write more about it but the main idea is jumping over the fires to let the "bad" burns in the fire.