TAHRAN’daki sokak çatışmalarının büyük bölümü, “Besic-i Mustazafin” (Ezilenlerin Seferberliği) denen gönüllü İslamcı milislerle, gözünü karartmış binlerce reformcu genç arasında cereyan ediyor. Çoğu işsiz, 1-2 milyon Besici milis bulunuyor. Besiciler, Devrim Muhafızları’na bağlı olsalar da, çoğu kez başıbozuk birlikler olarak hareket ediyorlar. İran ordusunun aksine bu paramiliter gücün hemen hemen tamamı Ahmedinejad yanlısı. Sivil kıyafet ve kamuflaj karışımı giysileri var. Motosikletle geziyorlar, silahları ise kalaşnikof, sopa, bisiklet zinciri ve ustura.
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La Biennale di Venezia 2009 / Fare Mondi (Making Worlds)
Since 1895, the Venice Biennale, a contemporary art exhibition, has been held in Venice, Italy every two years (with a few breaks). This year Venice is hosting the 53rd Biennale, which includes an international art exhibition, an architecture exhibition and festivals of contemporary music, dance, and theater - as well as the Venice Film Festival. The 53rd International Art Exhibition titled “Making Worlds”, opened to the public on June 7, and will remain open until November 22, 2009. Collected here are a few images from the recent vernissage (opening) of the art exhibition and of Venice itself.
An aerial view of the Punta della Dogana in Venice on June 02, 2009. French businessman and art collector Francois Pinault will inaugurate a contemporary art exhibition space in the late-17th-century Punta della Dogana, the pointy spit of land at the tip of Dorsoduro that once served as the gateway to the port of Venice. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s work “untitled 2007″ (left, on wall), British artist Rachel Whiteread’s work “One Hundred Spaces 1995″ (center), and “untitled 2007″ (right) by US artist Richard Price, displayed during the opening of the Punta della Dogana in Venice on June 3, 2009. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images) #
Russian artist Andrei Molodkin poses next to his version of the statue of Nike of Samothrace, filled with oil, part of an installation where two similar sculptures, one filled with oil and the other with blood, pumped in by a motor, are projected live on a wall and transformed into a third sculpture, during the vernissage of the 53rd Biennale International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, June 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar) #
Visitors view an installation by Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno entitled “Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web” at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni at the Giardini during the vernissage of the 53rd Biennale Internazional Art Exhibition in Venice June 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi) 07venice 14venice #
Artist Yoko Ono performs during her installation entitled “Anton’s Memory” at the Arsenale during the vernissage of the 53rd Biennale Internazional Art Exhibition in Venice June 6, 2009. Contemporary artist Yoko Ono and U.S. artist John Baldessari will be honored at the 2009 Venice Biennale with a Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi) #





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