These days in Iran we encounter two things: More official pressure on activists and Assembly of Experts for Leadership elections.

Assembly of Experts for Leadership are a group of religious experts who are elected "by people" to observe Leaders activities ! What a joke ! Any body who wants to enter this Assembly, has to pass many filters and these filters are designed by Guardian Council and this Guardian Council (12 people) are choosed themselves by the Leader ! The result ? Each year these old men gather and spend one week in the best hotels and at the end announce that "Leader is great". These days every official person and every TV / RADIO channel tell us "voting is our duty and part of our religion ! go vote for these Experts".

(to know more about our Constitution have a look at: Iran Constitution)

At the same time, pressures on activists are increasing. Mansour Osanlou is head of the executive committee of the transport workers. He was arrested again yesterday and nobody knows where he is. More and more sites are filtered in Iran. You can not access to blogrolling.com any more and our "WOMYN" campaign page is filtered too (Women are filtered in Iran (Farsi)).

But I'm glad ! Because I see more and more people who bravely write in their weblogs that "I'm not going to vote in Experts election". In Iran this can lead to prison and tortures. I am glad, very glad.

In my job I'm in contact with many reporters. From yesterday there was a rumor: A Mermaid fished yesterday ! Many reports made jokes about it except one person: Asieh Amini (her Farsi weblog). I was curious. I've never seen a mermaid myself and the idea of a half-woman / half-dolphin creature is far from my mind, but I accept that there might be something that people are speaking about.

Next news... All the people are talking about it in the area. Even the Muslims think that they have to pray for her dead body because "she" is somehow human (so why they don't pray for dead chimps?). My reaction was "something have to been happen and it is important but I need more proof". And at last here is the proof. There is a cell-phone video of her body. I don't know about biology but I think if real it has to be some kind of dolphin of wale with a mutation ! I want to know experts answers.



It's really fun that you can hear the Quran which is read aloud because of this creatures soul ! I'd liked to remove this sound but I've though it's better not to edit the movie in any form. This movie is exactly what I've got. Muslim read Quran in funerals of humans but here they are reading it for a fish and I think this is degrading !

(I'm not sure if I've added this SWF file to my post correctly. if you can not see it, just download the file and watch it stand alone)