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Latest revision as of 01:34, 4 February 2025
The Wet Gunpowder Award (Persian: Wet gunpowder prize) is an Iranian symbolic award that according to organizers, is given to “ridiculous people whose chaffy character is evident to everyone and when this nature of theirs is accompanied with self-belief turns into an indefinite foolishness for them”.[1]
The organizers, who have close ties to Basij and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (The award is unveiled by Basij commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi), claim award winner is “someone who is against the Islamic Revolution” and who “against their own wishes, performs a service to the revolution.”[2][3][4]
The statue of the award is that of brain with dark glasses and hearing aids with a plaque of the Quranic verse: “Unwilling to hear, unwilling to speak, unwilling to see, then, they will not return to the way.”[4]
In 2015, they awarded a parody of Golden Bear.[5]
- ^ “Ashton, Cronberg Receive Symbolic ‘Wet Gunpowder’ Award”. Fars News Agency. March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ a b Esfandiari, Golnaz (April 2, 2013). “Iran’s Basij Awards U.S. First Lady Over Oscars Announcement”. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ Johnson, Eliana (April 1, 2013). “Michelle Obama Receives Iranian Group’s ‘Wet Gunpowder’ Award”. National Review. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ a b Karami, Arash (April 2, 2013). “Michelle Obama Receives Iranian Group’s ‘Wet Gunpowder’ Award”. Al-Monitor. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ a b c The “wet gunpowder” prize reached the French Prime Minister (in Persian). Mehr News Agency. March 17, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ Iran posts a wet gunpowder prize for Obama’s wife. BBC Persian (in Persian). March 31, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ Naderi announced the final nominees for the wet gunpowder prize. Iranian Students’ News Agency (in Persian). March 7, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ Lucas, Scott (March 18, 2014). “Iran: Regime Gives “Wet Gunpowder Award” to EU’s Ashton”. EA WorldView. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ The wet gunpowder prize reached the head of the Academy Academy. Mehr News Agency (in Persian). March 15, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
