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  • Three Key Lessons from Obama's China Tour - TIME

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:58 am
    Three Key Lessons from Obama's China TourTIMEIran is a good example. Beijing's heavy investment in and reliance on Iran's energy sector make it extremely averse to serious sanctions or strategies that and more »

  • UN condemns Iran's response to post-election unrest - BBC News

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:14 pm
    NECNUN condemns Iran's response to post-election unrestBBC NewsA key UN committee has voted to approve a non-binding resolution condemning Iran for its crackdown on protesters following June's disputed elections. In Draft Resolution, United Nations Rebukes Iran for Rights Violations Since New York TimesUN panel condemns Iran for post-election crackdownReutersUN General Assembly Condemns Post-Election Abuses in IranVoice of AmericaThe Associated Press -Bloomberg -Times of Indiaall 569 news articles »

  • un Official Seeks Global Action on Iran - Wall Street Journal

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Times LIVEun Official Seeks Global Action on IranWall Street JournalAt the UN Friday, Iran drew criticism for how it handled the aftermath of the country's disputed presidential election. The General Assembly's human-rights Hillary Clinton Calls Iran Death Sentences "Distressing"MyStateline.comPrison sentences handed to Iranian political detaineesAhmadinejad Blames US Media for Distortions and Invites Brazil to Joint Brazzil MagazineRight Side News -Payvand -Guilfordianall 1,437 news articles »

  • Laughter Classes in Tehran — No, Seriously - New York Times

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:49 pm
    New York TimesLaughter Classes in Tehran — No, SeriouslyNew York TimesPerhaps hoping to combat the widespread discontent and months of unrest that followed Iran's disputed presidential election, Tehran opens laughter workshopsYnetnewsIran's clerics in a spotThe Australianall 4 news articles »

  • Foreign Affairs Roundup - Huffington Post (blog)

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:54 pm
    BBC NewsForeign Affairs RoundupHuffington Post (blog)Also notably, Obama met with Russian President Medvedev on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting, where they discussed Iran's nuclear program and assured the Iranian Leaders Weigh Support for the Houthi Rebellion in YemenJamestown FoundationThe Saudi Iranian Neo Cold War : Iran's proxy war in Yemen !Agoravox (blog)Yemen on the BrinkThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peaceall 145 news articles »
 
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  • Karzai declared president of Afghanistan

    Kari O'Rourke
    2 Nov 2009 | 1:56 pm
    President Hamid Karzai has been declared president of Afghanistan  after election runoff was cancelled by officials, according to the BBC. Karzai’s only opponent, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, dropped out of the race on Sunday out of concerns that the votes would not be fair or free. The United States and its allies congratulated President Hamid Karzai on winning a second term Monday, Fox News reports. Many Twitter users were not as quick to dole out their congrats: chadlavi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Karzai didn’t win so much as his only opponent dropped out of the race. I…

  • Socialist party’s George Papandreou wins Greek election

    Fahad Zuberi
    4 Oct 2009 | 3:27 pm
    George Papandreou of the Socialist PASOK party has won the Greek elections. Reuters reports that the socialists’ victory in Sunday’s Greek election is good news as the change brings in a strong government, which is needed to get the country out of an economic crisis. Twitter users in Greece and around Europe are happy to hear about the change. iamyianna (Athens, Greece) The Greek elections turned out just the way it should be. Congratulations to Papandreou!! Hope u bring some kind of change. GREECE NEEDS IT! 04 Oct 2009 from web anthonypainter (London, UK) PASOK’s victory…

  • Angela Merkel elected as German Chancellor for second term

    Lauren McTigue
    27 Sep 2009 | 5:47 pm
    Angela Merkel was re-elected for another four years as Chancellor of Germany on Sunday. With this win also came the announcement of forming a new coalition with her own Christian Democratic Party and the Free Democratic Party.  She said her former coalition with the Social Democratic Party would not lead her to the goal of repairing Germany’s troubled economy as reported by The Chosun Ilbo. This center-right coalition has reform as its number one priority as the Free Democratic Party is known for proposing “lower taxes and less regulation.” The Twitterverse seemed mostly…

  • Terrorism threats force Germany to raise alert level

    Craig Kanalley
    19 Sep 2009 | 12:04 am
    New threats from terrorist organization al-Qaeda have prompted Germany to raise its terror alert level, just prior to its federal elections on Sept. 27, CNN reports. The group specifically said it will attack if German troops are not withdrawn from Afghanistan and change in power doesn’t occur. Security will be heightened for Election Day and the following two weeks, which an al-Qaeda video specifically cited as the time frame for a possible attack, adds Spiegel Online. Many Germans on Twitter are trying to make sense of the news and its implications. dominik_schwarz (Köln, Germany)…

  • Afghanistan votes despite wave of attacks, 26 deaths on Election Day

    Craig Kanalley
    20 Aug 2009 | 8:22 am
    Reports are streaming out of Afghanistan today that many voters were not intimidated in the face of constant threats Thursday, casting their ballots in the Afghan Presidential Election. Voter turnout is expected to be down from the last election, as several polling stations were closed down due to threats and attacks, Bloomberg reports. Afghan officials say that dozens of attacks took place on Election Day and killed 26 people, yet the election was still carried out. Voice of America correspondent Steven Herman is in Kabul and has provided a series of updates on the latest numbers and…
 
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  • Fared Shafinury & Tehranosaurus

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:26 am
    [ spotlight ] Much of the 'fusion music' pumped out by a new generation of bands in Iran -- Ohum, 127, and early Kiosk -- transitions from East to West, writing Farsi lyrics onto non-Iranian genres like rock, jazz, and country. While the results can be novel and crowd-pleasing, the mix often feels more like an overlay of disparate elements than a seamless, authentic form of art. This is what makes the sound of American-Iranian musician Fared Shafinury and his Austin-based band, Tehranosaurus, stand out from his contemporaries. Born in a small town along the Gulf of Mexico, and classically…

  • Courageous & Principled: Journalists Isa Saharkhiz and Ahmad Zeidabadi

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:08 am
    [ profile ] Nov. 10, 2009, marked the 55th anniversary of the execution of Dr. Hossein Fatemi (1919-1954), the distinguished Iranian journalist who served as Foreign Minister during Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh's premiership. After the CIA/MI6 coup of 1953 restored Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to the throne, the coup government arrested many of Mossadegh's close aides and allies. Among them, almost no one angered the Shah or the British more than Fatemi, who advocated the nationalization of Iran's oil industry and was an ardent supporter of Mosaddegh. Fatemi was born in Nain, in the province of…

  • Fiery rhetoric as sanctions loom; UN rebukes Iran for rights violations

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:57 am
    Fiery rhetoric as sanctions loom Foreign Reports | Nov. 20, 2009 At the main Friday prayer service in Tehran today, the prayer leader dedicated his political sermon to a vituperative attack on Saudi Arabia, President Obama, and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, accusing all three of the massacre of defenseless Shi'a in northern Yemen. The prayer leader, Hojatoeslam Kazem Seddiqi, was named by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in late August as one of five interim prayer leaders to substitute for Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in that role, after Rafsanjani earned Khamenei's wrath during the…

  • Selected Headlines

    18 Nov 2009 | 8:07 am
    Iran protesters sentenced to death Al Jazeera | Nov. 18, 2009 Iran has sentenced five people to death and 81 others to prison terms of up to 15 years in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed June's disputed presidential election, state television says. A statement from the justice department, carried on the state-owned IRIB broadcaster, said on Tuesday that the five sentenced to death were members of "terrorist and armed opposition groups". "So far, 89 of defendants were tried and based on their cases, death sentences were issued for five of them."…

  • The Face behind Mousavi's Facebook

    17 Nov 2009 | 4:22 pm
    [ dispatch ] On the night of Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony, a young graduate student in Aachen, Germany set up a Facebook support group for an Iranian politician rumored to run in Iran's forthcoming presidential race. "I liked Mir Hossein Mousavi from the start," says Mohammad Sadeghi, 27, a German-Iranian student of international economics. "He was an Islamic Republic statesman with a good track record. I also believed he represented the best chance for Reform, as a middle-path figure who would attract conservative and moderate voters alike." Mohammad visited Iran in March, just when…
 
 
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  • Ramin Pourandarjani's Death Raises Suspicions

    The Huffington Post News Team
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:17 am
    BEIRUT — An Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid conflicting reports of a heart attack, a car accident or suicide – raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old was killed. Revelations that protesters detained in Iran's postelection crackdown were tortured, some to death, were a deep embarrassment to the country's clerical rulers. Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani was pressured to change the death certificate of one of the most well known victims and later spoke to a parliament commission…

  • Adam Elkus: Reflecting on Iran, Social Media, and Change

    Adam Elkus
    12 Nov 2009 | 4:26 am
    Viewed through Western eyes, the information-enabled 2009 Iran protest movements were an irresistible force pitted against a brittle and hapless regime. Such a view overemphasized the role of technology in what was fundamentally an old-school social uprising. Still, some authors see the failure of the Iranian protest movement as a sign of technological hubris. A more realistic view of social movements and information politics is needed. Social media, while important in enabling mobilization and organization, is not necessarily decisive. In 1995, John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt coined the…

  • Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

    The Huffington Post News Team
    12 Nov 2009 | 12:54 am
    In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, 230 pp., $25.99 Extraordinary events in Iran over the past six months have brought us images, voices, and narratives until recently unimaginable; they reveal, among other things, how little we understand about quotidian life in that country since the revolution. In the United States, we are nevertheless aware, with a dark tremor, of Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, the black hole of the hard-liners' repressive system. Emblematic of the regime, it is…

  • 3 Journalists Freed By Iran

    The Huffington Post News Team
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country's official news agency reported. One of the reporters, Farhad Pouladi, is an Iranian who works for Agence France-Presse. The other two are foreign reporters, but the report by the IRNA news agency did not identify them or say for whom they work. Read more: Journalists, Irna, Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Iran Election, Farhad Pouladi, Afp, Protests, #Iranelection, Tehran, Iran, Iranelection, Mahmoud…

  • Neda's Mother Recalls Daughter Four Months After Brutal Killing Captured World's Attention

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    5 Nov 2009 | 3:28 am
    (CNN) -- The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war going on," she told her mom the next morning, "and I was in the front." Read more: Iran, Neda Mother, Neda Video, Neda, Iran Election, Neda's Mother, Iran Protests, World News
 
 
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    The Majlis: Iranian Elections (2009)

  • The mysterious death of Ramin Pourandarjani

    Gregg Carlstrom
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:12 am
    Reformist Web sites in Iran have been buzzing lately about the bizarre case of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, a doctor who treated victims of torture at Tehran's notorious Kahrizak detention facility (which was closed in July by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for failing to meet even his minimal standards). Pourandarjani died on Nov. 10. Authorities initially claimed he died in his sleep, of a heart attack. They changed the cause of death to poisoning a few days later. And on Monday authorities revised their story again, saying they have no idea what killed Pourandarjani. Hanif Mazroui, a reporter for the…

  • Today's protests started last night

    Gregg Carlstrom
    4 Nov 2009 | 2:08 am
    I guess you could say the protests in Iran actually started last night: As usual, thousands of Iranians took to their rooftops the night before to chant "Allahu akbar" and "Death to the dictator." Here's video (h/t Andrew Sullivan):

  • Live-blogging: Protests flare up across Tehran

    Gregg Carlstrom
    4 Nov 2009 | 2:05 am
    Update, 10:21 a.m. This is a pretty remarkable piece of video: Iranian protesters tearing down a giant Khamenei billboard in Tehran. It's hard to tell if this video is from today -- people are wearing jackets and warmer clothes, so it's probably recent. But even if it's old video, it's still remarkable to see Iranians tearing down this banner. 9:40 a.m.: A correspondent writes to Tehran Bureau and describes how effective the security forces were at shutting down the protests and limiting them to small areas of Tehran: Back on Enghelab nothing was happening, and no one spoke of student…

  • Here we go again

    Evan Hill
    4 Nov 2009 | 1:41 am
    A quick note before I crash: Opposition protesters have, as planned, taken to the streets in Iran in an effort to subvert the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover - a celebratory day of sorts for hardliners in Iran - to show their displeasure with their own Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Plenty of blogs will be covering the action as the West starts to wake up. In the U.K., they've already gotten started. I won't try to summarize them right now. One report to watch as the day goes on: Mehdi Karroubi may have been injured when he joined…

  • The ayatollah and the math student

    Gregg Carlstrom
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:50 am
    The Iranian regime continues to tighten the noose around reformists: Iranian police issued a stern warning today, their second in three days, that only anti-U.S. protests will be tolerated on the 13th of Aban (tomorrow). The regime also handed down a four-year jail sentence for Hossein Rassam, a British embassy employee arrested after the election, and closed down another opposition newspaper, Sarmayeh. No details on why the paper was closed, though it has reportedly been critical of Ahmadinejad's economic policies. More than 100 newspapers have been closed down over the last few years --…
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  • U.S. Afghanistan debate curbs Gates on Canada visit

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan. As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the United States' ties with its allies in the war.

  • Outages dim Chavez popularity

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Power failures, unpaid civil servants and falling oil revenue play havoc with support for the Venezuela leader. Power outages are hitting Henrique Vollmer's rum distillery several times a week, interrupting production, damaging equipment and jeopardizing the jobs of his 375 workers.

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    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
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  • 'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Dieter Helm of Oxford says climate change policy should focus not on carbon production, but carbon consumption. A tax on carbon-heavy activities places the emphasis where it belongs, he says. With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom has settled in many quarters over the increasing likelihood that a robust international treaty to lower carbon emissions is out of reach, at least for now.

  • Children starve in parched southern Madagascar

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    As temperatures rise, drought, crop failure and deforestation have combined to create a crisis of malnutrition. Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza -- outsiders.
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  • June 19th, Iran...and the events that led to Neda's death Part 4

    NedaSoltan
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:58 pm
    June 19th, Iran...and the events that led to Neda's death Part 4 www.facebook.com www.facebook.com Neda: Iran's Largest Upheaval Since 1979 p3 At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death -- filmed on a camera phone, then uploaded to the Web -- quickly became an international outrage, and Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government's hold on power. In A Death in Tehran ... From: NedaSoltan…

  • Protesters being beaten by security forces - Iran 13 an ...

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    4 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Protesters being beaten by security forces - Iran 13 an ... Posted via email from onlymehdi's video From: onlymehdi Views: 39992 144 ratings Time: 00:46 More in Entertainment

  • History of Iran- (a must see for any Ron Paul Supporter) WW3 Russia

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    1 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm
    History of Iran- (a must see for any Ron Paul Supporter) WW3 Russia America will go to war with Iran and here is the History of the NWO thugs that have taken over America! From: yourboyken Views: 56145 1914 ratings Time: 09:48 More in Travel & Events

  • 10/28/09 Ron Paul: Sanctions on Iran are an Act of War! (Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing)

    minnesotachris
    28 Oct 2009 | 5:34 pm
    10/28/09 Ron Paul: Sanctions on Iran are an Act of War! (Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing) Sorry about the low audio quality. www.house.gov CampaignForLiberty.com Congressman Ron Paul opposes HR 2194 Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009. Sanctions are an act of war! From: minnesotachris Views: 21942 284 ratings Time: 05:13 More in News & Politics

  • Riz Khan - Iran and the US - 13 Oct 09 - Part 1

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    14 Oct 2009 | 12:00 am
    Riz Khan - Iran and the US - 13 Oct 09 - Part 1 The historic face-to-face meeting between Iranian and US diplomats in Geneva earlier this month has opened the possibilities for future dialogue. But is there really an opportunity for the de-escalation of Iran's nuclear crisis? From: AlJazeeraEnglish Views: 2606 23 ratings Time: 11:47 More in News & Politics
 
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  • Iran News – Iran to launch satellite on its own by late 2011 (The ...

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    21 Nov 2009 | 1:50 am
    Iran: Ahmadinejad to begin South American visit (AKI) – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Brazil and its South American neighbours, Venezuela and Bolivia, next week to strengthen his country's political and economic ...

  • UN condemns Iran on human rights | Stock Market News - Business ...

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    20 Nov 2009 | 10:13 pm
    A key UN committee has voted to approve a non-binding resolution condemning Iran for its crackdown on protesters following June's disputed elections.The resolution also repeated annual criticism of Iran's human rights record, ...

  • Fausta's Blog » Blog Archive » Ahmadinejad heading to Brazil

    Fausta
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:57 pm
    This entry was posted on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm and is filed under Brazil, Iran, Lula, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from ...

  • GayandRight: More questions on Iran....

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    20 Nov 2009 | 3:18 pm
    The International Atomic Energy Agency report issued Monday notes Iran's contention that it began work on the nuclear facility in 2007 in response to Bush administration threats of war as part of a plan to safeguard sensitive ...

  • Wonk Room » Support Iran's Opposition Or Bomb Iran: You Can't Do Both

    M. Duss
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    Washington Times national security editor Barbara Slavin has an article on Iranian filmmaker and dissident Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who has become a spokesperson for Iran's Green Movement in the wake of the June 12 elections. ...
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  • The Daily Wrap

    Andrew Sullivan
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:42 pm
    As Palin's marketing tour continued, Jessica Valenti targeted her double standards on gender, Kristol seemed to be scheming, and Larison countered Kristol. We chronicled another odd lie, and featured four near lies here, here, here, and here - the latter of which targets the Dish.In KSM coverage, cognitive dissonance appeared strong on the far right, two former Bush officials voiced support of civilian trials, and David Feige worried about the implications of a "show trial." In other coverage, Andrew was aghast at the GOP's hypocrisy over healthcare spending, Suderman and…

  • Palin's Brain Speaks, Ctd

    Andrew Sullivan
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:04 pm
    Larison counters Kristol:Were [Palin] to side openly with McCain in a primary against Hayworth, whose views match up a lot more closely with her supporters’ views, she would be seen as imitating McCain’s worst habits. She would be considered a worse sell-out than McCain. She would be doing exactly the opposite of what she did in NY-23. Her intervention may have failed to elect Hoffman, but rank-and-file conservatives generally loved her for it anyway. She would fritter all that away if she backed McCain.Is Kristol worrying that Steve Schmidt may be right about her?

  • Email Of The Day

    Andrew Sullivan
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:02 pm
    A reader writes: I just received my order of six Window View books (paid the initial price of $29.95) and then ordered 75 once I saw them (at the new price of $16.25). I’ve seen mixed results from self-publishing places in the past, so I wanted to see a real example before I ordered many as gifts. I would imagine that there may be others like me who will order one for themselves and then order more for friends/family and business clients at Christmas once they see how impressive it is in real life. Well: 75 is a lot. But I'm glad the reader sees just how beautiful the book turned out.

  • Face Of The Day

    Andrew Sullivan
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:45 pm
    Haydar Khalil, a Praham market trader spits a cherry pip out of his mouth as he takes part in a cherry pip spitting competition at the launch of the 2009 Victorian Cherry Season at Prahran Market on November 20, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. The competition was won by Khalil who spat his cherry pip 15.97 metres. By Scott Barbour/Getty.

  • Out Of Touch, Ctd

    Andrew Sullivan
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:21 pm
    John Sides throws a few handfuls of salt at that PPP poll. Sager tries to understand what the poll means:Both 2000 and 2004 were close enough to justify some amount of paranoia. Now, perhaps, the Republicans are paying back the Democratic conspiracy mongering of the last decade with their own childishness. ACORN is the GOP’s Diebold, maybe. “Barack Obama is illegitimate,” is the Republicans’ version of “George W. Bush is going to suspend elections in 2008 and seize power as a dictator.” The difference, though, would seem to be how widespread this stuff is. I haven’t seen good…
 
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  • The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran by Homa Katouzian, Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs by Ray Takeyh

    IranNewsNow Admin
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:49 pm
    (Guardian UK) James Buchan welcomes two attempts to pin down Iran’s past and present James Buchan November 21, 2009 Iran has in abundance first desert and then history. Its written annals go back nearly 3,000 years, while a sort of parallel history, collected by Ferdowsi in the magnificent national epic known as the Shahnameh or Book of Kings in [...]

  • Iranian Official issues threat ahead of 7 December rally

    IranNewsNow Admin
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:30 pm
    (MowjCamp (English)) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:07 PM Iran’s Prosecutor General and former Minister of Intelligence warned on Thursday that “the Judiciary is determined to decisively and primitively confront any new unrest [caused] by those against the results of the Presidential Elections of Iran.” Appearing on Iranian state-run television, Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje’i promised that any action deemed as [...]

  • Video: Pro-regime university speaker shouted down by students

    IranNewsNow Admin
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:25 pm
    (France24/RFI Pro-regime speakers are regularly invited by University Bassij to speak before students – but since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial re-election in June, they face increasingly hostile audiences. On November 16, one of Ahmadinejad’s staunchest supporters was booed to silence with calls of “murderer” and “liar, go away!” But students often pay the price for their [...]

  • Iranian Nobel Laureate [Shirin Ebadi] Threatened, Harassed

    IranNewsNow Admin
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:58 pm
    (RFE/RL)) November 20, 2009 Iranian human rights advocate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi said she has been receiving death threats, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 and who is currently outside of Iran, told RFE/RL that Iranian security agents have warned her husband that she “is not safe no matter where [...]

  • Regime Seeks to Appoint New “Grand Ayatollahs”

    IranNewsNow Admin
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:40 pm
    (Rooz Online) November 20, 2009 By Ali Farokhi Following the escalation of protests by Iran’s senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to present a new list of “grand ayatollahs” under the supervision of Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad Jannati and Mesbah [...]
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  • 23 Dead in Afghanistan Bombings; Most Bagram Detainees Mercenaries

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:05 pm
    Afghan insurgents greeted the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as president for another 5 years with a string of attacks and bombings that left 23 dead and dozens wounded on Friday.A motorcycle-driving suicide bomber in the southwestern province of Farah struck near a truck depot, killing 15 and wounding 38, according to AFP.In Kabul, the capital, a roadside bomb targeted the convoy of Abdul Rabb Rasul Sayyaf, killing 5 of his bodyguards. Sayyaf, a warlord member of parliament had fought the Soviets in the 1980s and espouses a hard line Muslim ideology. In the 1980s and the 1990s he was close to…

  • 2 Bombings Rock Peshawar: Karzai Inaugurated

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:22 pm
    Two bombs rocked the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday. The first, in the morning, targeted the city's courthouse. The suicide bomber, wearing a vest, was stopped by security before he could get into the building. He detonated his payload outside, killing 20 persons and wounding 50.Thursday evening another bomber struck at a police vehicle, killing two policemen and wounding five civilians. Aljazeera English explains 'why Peshawar'?Analysts on GEO television Friday morning were saying that the Pakistani military is reluctant to take on the Mahsud tribe (the dominant one in South…

  • Cloughley: Defeating the Taliban in Pakistan's Tribal Areas

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:10 pm
    Brian Cloughley writes in a guest editorial for ICWhen the Taliban insurrection in Pakistan began in earnest, in 2005, the Pakistan army did not have enough troops in North-West Frontier Province to combat the growing menace. It was not possible for the army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps to conduct operations without considerable reinforcement. In any event, the role of the lightly-armed Frontier Corps has always been more akin to policing than to engaging in conventional military operations. Dealing with inter-tribe skirmishes and cross-border smugglers is very different to combating…

  • Al-Hashimi Vetoes Voter Bill; US military Suicides Spke

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:35 pm
    Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who is a Sunni Arab, has vetoed the election law recently passed by parliament. Iraq has a president (currently a Kurd, Jalal Talabani) and two vice presidents (the other is Adil Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq). Al-Hashimi reportedly dislikes being call the "Sunni vice president," but that is certainly how he acted with his veto. In the Iraqi constitution, the president and the two vice presidents function as a "presidential council" who are supposed to decide whether parliamentary…

  • India decries joint US-China statement on Indo-Pak Relations

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:32 pm
    Since both the US and China have traditionally been allies of Pakistan, any joint US-China call for better relations between the two major countries in South Asia would likely irk New Delhi. It did.Given that the current Minister of External Affairs, S. M. Krishna, had a long political career representing Karnataka State, with its high-tech capital of Bangalore, he is associated the the confident and fast-growing new India and so might especially resent any hint of Chinese intervention in South Asia.
 
 
 
 
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  • Laughter Classes in Tehran - No, Seriously

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:41 pm
    Perhaps hoping to combat the widespread discontent and months of unrest that followed Iran's disputed presidential election, the Tehran city council has announced the start of laughter classes.

  • Video Plea From Kidnapped British Couple

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:42 pm
    On Friday Britain's Channel 4 News broadcast a video appeal for help by Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates last month. The tape was apparently filmed this week in Somalia.

  • Accepting Defeat in Egypt and Ireland

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:02 am
    International relations continued to suffer on Friday from the reverberations over two soccer matches played on Wednesday.

  • Can Soldiers Be Victims of Terrorism?

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:35 am
    Given that it is obviously important to some people to call the atrocity at Fort Hood an act of terrorism, it seems worth asking both if most people can agree on what the word means and why it matters what we call such brutal acts.

  • Cuban Blogger Posts Interview With Obama

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:42 pm
    In what seems like one step forward for freedom of expression on the island of Cuba, on Wednesday a blogger in Havana named Yoani Sánchez published President Barack Obama's replies to seven questions she put to him on relations between the two countries.
 
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