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some babblings on Iran, semi-courtesy of ontd_political.

The man, who has come from a small town in the eastern province of Khorasan and has never been in Tehran before, says he is being paid 2m rial (£1220) to assault protestors with a heavy wooden stave.

Besides all the D: of the tragedy, this is pretty surreal for me because that's comparable to my salary (slightly less) for cataloging books. I'm not even quite sure what's giving my brain the hiccups; possibly just the huge contrast between our, ah, job duties which are apparently rewarded with similar wages (albeit I'm sure that kind of money buys a lot more in Iran than it does in California). ( Read more... )

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some babblings on Iran, semi-courtesy of ontd_political.

The man, who has come from a small town in the eastern province of Khorasan and has never been in Tehran before, says he is being paid 2m rial (£1220) to assault protestors with a heavy wooden stave.

Besides all the D: of the tragedy, this is pretty surreal for me because that's comparable to my salary (slightly less) for cataloging books. I'm not even quite sure what's giving my brain the hiccups; possibly just the huge contrast between our, ah, job duties which are apparently rewarded with similar wages (albeit I'm sure that kind of money buys a lot more in Iran than it does in California). ( Read more... )