{"id":424,"date":"2007-11-30T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=424"},"modified":"2007-11-30T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T05:55:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Iranian irony"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Guardian’s<\/a> website (Comment is free..<\/a>) by Nasrin Alavi<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington is using the sort of rhetoric it used in the build-up to the war in Iraq. The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, looms forever large in the western media. So you may care to see a few Iranian faces other than Ahmadinejad’s for a change.<\/p>\n

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The video above, for a song by the underground Iranian band Kiosk, titled Love for Speed, was filmed entirely in Tehran. It’ll give you a flavour of the sort of music that booms out of rickety taxis and flash cars alike in city’s maddening traffic. Kiosk are very popular in Iran.<\/p>\n

The video was shot in a two-and-a-half days by Ahmad Kiarostami (son of the legendary Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami). Ahmad just walked up to passers-by in Tehran asking them to mime the lyrics.<\/p>\n

I have to warn you that Kiosk sound far too much like Dire Straits. I also have to share a dark Iranian secret with you here. There are many Iranians who love Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and Manchester United Football Club with a passion. Although the track is subtitled the translation in the video isn’t that great. But you’ll get the gist, the opening lyrics are:<\/p>\n

The power of love or love of power
\nModernism versus tradition forever<\/p>\n

Living in the axis of evil
\nDrive a Citroen 2CV and a have a love for speed<\/p>\n

Why feel any pain and suffer
\nWith pills and powders at hand<\/p>\n

Nothing to eat for lunch or dinner
\nThen let them eat yellowcake<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Guardian’s website (Comment is free..) by Nasrin Alavi Washington is using the sort of rhetoric it used in the build-up to the war in Iraq. The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, looms forever large in the western media. So you may care to see a few Iranian faces other than Ahmadinejad’s for a change. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}