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  • Internet marketing pioneers set for Tehran - PRWeb: The conference, which is hoped to increase awareness of onli... http://t.co/xbmyjDs0

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    28 Jan 2012 | 7:19 am
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    28 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    msnbc.comEconomist who foresaw '08 crash warns conflict with Iran could cause global msnbc.comAmid forecasts Iran might be able to build a bomb next year, and with President Barack Obama facing re-election campaign questions on how he can make good on promises — to Americans and to Israel — not to tolerate a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic, and more »

  • Business | Iran's Economy: Déjà Vu All Over Again

    FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau | PBS
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:09 pm
    As the rial plummets, interest rates are hiked -- the latest step in a long tradition of economic trial and error. [ dispatch ] The volatility of Iran's currency market over the past month has left consumers puzzled, politicians confused, and everybody guessing. The Ahmadinejad administration reacted slowly, finally committing this week to an increase in interest rates to prevent a bank run. As the working week began in Iran this past Saturday, the rial declined sharply, falling to as low as 20,000 per U.S. dollar on the open market. This decline, although dramatic, was expected. The surprise…

  • Bomb-Bomb-Bomb, Bomb-Bomb-Iran?

    NYT > Iran
    21 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    It’s an election year, and testosterone is in the air.

  • India's biometric ID number plan divided by bureaucracy

    L.A. Times - World News
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The prime minister decides the two agencies fighting to collect and control fingerprints, retinal scans and other data will share in the duties. 
 
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  • Economist who foresaw '08 crash warns conflict with Iran could cause global ... - msnbc.com

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    msnbc.comEconomist who foresaw '08 crash warns conflict with Iran could cause global msnbc.comAmid forecasts Iran might be able to build a bomb next year, and with President Barack Obama facing re-election campaign questions on how he can make good on promises — to Americans and to Israel — not to tolerate a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic, and more »

  • "Era For Sanctions Literature Over" - Bernama

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:57 am
    "Era For Sanctions Literature Over"BernamaMember of the country's Fundamentalists United Front referred to the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iran, arguing, "The main contestant in the election is the global oppression and the enemy's strategy in it is the same as before.and more »

  • EU Sanctions to Affect Parliament Election: Iranian Cleric - CRIENGLISH.com

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:59 pm
    Globe and MailEU Sanctions to Affect Parliament Election: Iranian ClericCRIENGLISH.comAn senior Iranian cleric said Friday that the European Union's decision to sanction the country's oil exports is aimed at affecting Iran's coming Majlis (Parliament) election, local media reported. EU oil embargo on Iran is not something new, Iran hits back at EU with own oil embargo threatReutersThe Week in ReviewtheTrumpet.comIran, the West, and the Lessons of the Great WarHuffington Post (blog)Eurasia Review -NPR -Washington Post (blog)all 3,476 news articles »

  • Blame everywhere but Tehran - Iranian

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:40 pm
    Blame everywhere but TehranIranianby Sohrab Ahmari Just over three years have passed since President Barack Obama extended a hand to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the hope of stopping its quest for nuclear weapons. Today his policy of engaging Tehran is judged by many to be a

  • Bomb Iran? Yes we can: a US plan that couldn't possibly go wrong - Sydney Morning Herald

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Sydney Morning HeraldBomb Iran? Yes we can: a US plan that couldn't possibly go wrongSydney Morning HeraldSome time in the next few months you order the United States Defence Department to destroy Iran's nuclear capacity. Yes, I know it's an election year, and some people will say this is a cynical rally-round-the-flag move on your part, but a nuclear Iran Barack Obama Must Strengthen Foreign and Economic Policy As Part of 2012 CampaignPolicyMicFailing To Find PeaceIranianMilitarism mixed with empty liberal rhetoricParty for Socialism and LiberationThe Guardian -Pravdaall 225…
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    FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau | PBS

  • Business | Iran's Economy: Déjà Vu All Over Again

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:09 pm
    As the rial plummets, interest rates are hiked -- the latest step in a long tradition of economic trial and error. [ dispatch ] The volatility of Iran's currency market over the past month has left consumers puzzled, politicians confused, and everybody guessing. The Ahmadinejad administration reacted slowly, finally committing this week to an increase in interest rates to prevent a bank run. As the working week began in Iran this past Saturday, the rial declined sharply, falling to as low as 20,000 per U.S. dollar on the open market. This decline, although dramatic, was expected. The surprise…

  • News | Political Prisoners Call for Release of Mousavi, Karroubi, and Rahnavard

    26 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Any views expressed are the authors' own. Please refer to the Media Guide to help put the stories in perspective. You can follow breaking news stories on our Twitter feed. Iran Standard Time (IRST), GMT+3:30 1 a.m., 7 Bahman/January 27 Thirty-nine prominent political prisoners have issued a statement calling on Iranians to boycott the Majles elections on March 3 and to make the maximum…

  • News | IRI Devalues Rial, Warns 'No One Can Sell Oil if Iran Cannot'

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Any views expressed are the authors' own. Please refer to the Media Guide to help put the stories in perspective. You can follow breaking news stories on our Twitter feed. Iran Standard Time (IRST), GMT+3:30 12:05 a.m., 7 Bahman/January 27 The Islamic Republic of Iran announced Thursday that it was devaluing the rial, the national currency, by 8 percent and would be taking steps to…

  • Media | With HispanTV, the Islamic Republic Habla Español También

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:40 am
    New IRI network aimed at Latin American viewership. [ dispatch ] Latin American TV is famous for its telenovelas, over-the-top soap operas that might feature a man competing with a clone of himself for the love of his life. The popular melodramas are dubbed into several languages and make up some of Latin America's most successful cultural exports. Now the Islamic Republic of Iran wants to add some variety to Latin American airwaves. Iran's state-owned broadcasting corporation recently launched HispanTV, a Spanish-language network that's bringing Iranian-produced news, documentaries, and even…

  • Notebook | 16 Days in Evin Prison

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:29 pm
    A journalist reflects on her two weeks of incarceration in the Islamic Republic. [ feature ] "We've convicted people with thinner files and less evidence," a judge told me on my first morning in Iranian detention. Pointing to a thick folder, he continued, "You might as well just tell us which American agency you work for." Ending up in Evin is every Iranian's nightmare. It's not the only prison and detention center in Iran, but it's probably the most infamous. Horror stories pouring out of Iranian prisons are in no shortage, and cases of torture and rape have been reported by opposition and…
 
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    L.A. Times - World News

  • India's biometric ID number plan divided by bureaucracy

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The prime minister decides the two agencies fighting to collect and control fingerprints, retinal scans and other data will share in the duties. 

  • France's proposed genocide law fuels Turkey's anger

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:46 pm
    Relations between France and Turkey has been strained further since the French Parliament approved legislation that would make it illegal to deny the Armenian genocide.The object of the game is to see how hard a hand on the computer screen can slap a cartoon image of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It made its debut only hours after the French Senate passed legislation Monday that would criminalize denial of the Armenian genocide.

  • An exquisite Mexico beach, cursed by plastic

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:45 pm
    Sea currents act like a conveyor belt, depositing trash on a remote stretch of sand in an ecologically rich region of coral reef and mangrove forests. Locals can only pick up the pieces, bit by bit.Just off a rutted dirt road, a beach as white as flour pops into view from behind a wall of sea grape and rustling palms. Pelicans slice over turquoise waters, and not a single person stirs the quiet.

  • Violence flares across Syria amid Assad effort to clamp down

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:42 pm
    More than 120 people have been killed in the last two days, the opposition says, signaling one of the bloodiest stretches of Syria's 10-month-old uprising.A renewed wave of violence swept across Syria on Friday as the government of President Bashar Assad sought to counter mass protests and armed insurgents in cities and towns brimming with rebellion against his rule, according to opposition accounts.

  • In South Korea, quirky barber and his shop retain following

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:42 pm
    Lee Nam-yul is a third-generation old-school barber with a preference for scissors over electric cutters. He and his ramshackle shop are a fixture in Seoul.For more than 46 years, they've been inseparable, this quirky barber and his ramshackle excuse for a shop. People who know them both say it's hard to tell which is more eccentric.
 
 
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  • 'US sanctions to starve Iranian people to death'

    RussiaToday
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:54 am
    'US sanctions to starve Iranian people to death' Millions of new jobs, manufacturing back on track, the war in Iraq over and Bin Laden gone. Barack Obama has set out his stall for re-election - and using the annual State of the Union address to do it. Caleb Maupin of the International Action Centre tells us that America's double standards on domestic and international policy were there for all to see during Obama's speech. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com From: RussiaToday Views: 4737 198 ratings Time: 04:37 More in News & Politics

  • 'Warships real deal, Iran oil ban is propaganda'

    RussiaToday
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:16 am
    'Warships real deal, Iran oil ban is propaganda' Iran has apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new EU oil embargo and asset freeze. India is reportedly agreeing to pay Iran in gold for its oil, instead of US dollars. Reports suggest Iran's biggest customer, China, could follow suit. Christoph R. Horstel, a government consultant and political analyst in Potsdam, Germany says he thinks the EU embargo is doomed to fail. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com From: RussiaToday Views: 18009 376 ratings Time: 06:20 More in News & Politics

  • Oil-for-gold: Iran to dodge US ban with metal shield?

    RussiaToday
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:13 am
    Oil-for-gold: Iran to dodge US ban with metal shield? The EU has delivered on its threat to ban the import of crude oil from Iran, in response to its nuclear programme. The latest round of sanctions prohibits any new oil contracts, while allowing for existing deals to run until July. But Tehran is apparently finding ways to keep business pumping. Reports say Iran will keep supplying one of its biggest customers - India - but will get payment in gold instead of dollars. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com From: RussiaToday Views: 38119 462 ratings Time: 02:37 More in…

  • Escobar: EU needs Iran's oil, shoots itself in foot

    RussiaToday
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:45 am
    Escobar: EU needs Iran's oil, shoots itself in foot Reports from Iran suggest a fierce reaction to the EU's move to impose an embargo on Iran's crude exports. To discuss the implications of fresh sanctions against Iran, RT talks to Pepe Escobar - columnist and 'Asia Times' correspondent, from Bangkok RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com From: RussiaToday Views: 14754 318 ratings Time: 04:49 More in News & Politics

  • Strait Jacket: Iran to 'definitely' close Hormuz if EU bans oil

    RussiaToday
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    Strait Jacket: Iran to 'definitely' close Hormuz if EU bans oil EU nations have formally adopted an unprecedented set of sanctions against Tehran - which include a bloc-wide embargo on Iranian oil. The move targets Iran's nuclear program which, the Islamic Republic insists, is for purely peaceful purposes. To discuss the implications of fresh sanctions against Iran, RT talks to James Corbett - editor of independent news website - 'The Corbett Report' which is based in Japan. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com From: RussiaToday Views: 38087 358…
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    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • Ad War Update

    Andrew Sullivan
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The full version of "Blood Money," funded by the pro-Gingrich PAC Winning Our Future: Ben Johnson wonders if the web ad will have an impact:  While Romney was never personally implicated in the scandal that embroiled Damon Corp, fact-checking site PolitiFact has rated a separate ad drawing the same connections as “Mostly True.” Will the seven-minute negative ad do damage? After what pundits are calling his best debate performances thus far, Romney is ahead of Gingrich in the latest Florida polling. But national polls have Gingrich pulling ahead as…

  • The Weekly Wrap

    Andrew Sullivan
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:30 pm
    Friday on the Dish, Andrew pinpointed Romney's achilles heel on taxes, pronounced the primary "not yet over," and reacted to the bombshell report that Paul edited his racist newsletters (follow-up here). He also excoriated Grover's plan to impeach Obama over taxes, lauded Corey Booker's defense of marriage equality, explained the sense in sexuality was like religion, inveighed against circumcision, and opened up about his first theatrical role. Newt appeared to be gearing up for a vicious ad campaign, got defended on the bucket weirdness, continued to employ…

  • A Defense Of Super PACs

    Andrew Sullivan
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:34 pm
    Mounted by Nick Gillespie: E.D. Kain makes related points while countering Chait: [W]hy should we be more concerned with the influence of one billionaire over the decisions of a hypothetical president Newt Gingrich than with the amassed influence of corporations over the Republican party itself? After all, if Gingrich did anything explicitly to help Sheldon Adelson we’d know about it rather quickly. Everyone would be paying close attention. But the machinations of the Republican party itself and the money which keeps the back-scratching mutual between the party and its benefactors is…

  • Newt Wanted To Legalize Medical Marijuana

    Andrew Sullivan
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:57 pm
    In 1982, before he wanted to execute pot importers, Congressman Gingrich wrote a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association: We believe licensed physicians are competent to employ marijuana, and patients have a right to obtain marijuana legally, under medical supervision, from a regulated source. The medical prohibition does not prevent seriously ill patients from employing marijuana; it simply deprives them of medical supervision and access to a regulated medical substance. Physicians are often forced to choose between their ethical responsibilities to the patient…

  • When A Man Loves A Lesbian, Ctd

    Andrew Sullivan
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:35 pm
    A reader writes: "Pink Triangle" is a great ode to unrequited love because it so wryly captures the absurdity and pain of loving someone who will never - or in the case of Pink Triangle Girl, can never - love you back. So I was amused to learn in this 2009 Fresh Air interview with Rivers Cuomo that the woman who inspired the song was actually straight, and that the pink triangle was a show of support for gay rights. Rivers missed the boat!
 
 
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    Informed Comment

  • Béji: “We are all Tunisian Jews”

    Juan
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:35 am
    Hélé Béji, a prominent woman writer from an old notable family in Tunis, was outraged by an incident in early January when a small crowd of religious extremists at the airport in Tunis to greet a visiting Hamas leader chanted “Death to the Jews.” She published this cry of the heart in Le Monde on January 19, and kindly consented for it to be translated and appear at Informed Comment in English. Tunisians do not betray the ideals of your revolution! by Hélé Béji, writer. Tunisians, you rose up against tyranny and injustice with true hearts: you were righteousness. You have…

  • GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”

    Juan
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:11 am
    The Republican candidates for president once again tried to out-do the Likud Party in their devotion to the doctrine of the Iron Wall and their attempt to erase the Palestinian people from history and justify their being kept in a condition of statelessness and lack of citizenship in any state. (The first thing the National Socialists in Germany did to the Jews was to strip them of citizenship, understanding that a stateless people is “flotsam” that no one wants and which lacks any legal standing). Israel is in a race with time. The 11 million Palestinians are not going to go…

  • Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue

    Juan
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:17 am
    Perhaps 100,000 Egyptians came out on Wednesday in Tahrir Square in Cairo to mark the anniversary of the first massive protest that led to the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak. There was also a huge crowd in Alexandria, Egypt’s second city. But the gathering was not simply a commemoration. The revolutionary youth used the occasion to put more pressure on the Egyptian military to step down and go back to the barracks, handing power to the elected parliament and its speaker. The leftist youth are not concerned that the civilian parliament is heavily dominated by right wing religious…

  • SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East

    Juan
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:50 am
    President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address treated the Middle East at several points, underlining the unusual importance of this region to the United States. Obama began by celebrating the end of the Iraq War and of the presence of US troops in that country. Although Obama might have been open to US forces being stationed in Iraq, as they are in South Korea, the Iraqi refusal to grant them legal immunity made it impossible for the president to keep them there. Ending the war is indeed a great achievement, but Obama may not get so much credit for it because he is too conflicted…

  • Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)

    Juan
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:02 am
    World military spending in 2010. Note that Iran’s is not a big enough proportion of world arms spending to show up on this graph, which doesn’t show countries that are lower than 2% of the global total. Courtesy Democratic Underground.
 
 
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    The Lede

  • Paratroopers' Anti-Putin Song Stirs the Opposition

    By GLENN KATES
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:49 pm
    A video of a musical group, apparently featuring former Russian paratroopers, performing a song with lyrics sharply critical of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, quickly became an Internet sensation after it was posted to YouTube on Thursday.

  • Protesters Storm Syria's Embassy in Cairo

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Protesters stormed the Syrian embassy in Cairo on Friday, smashing an official portrait and waving the flag adopted by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

  • Twitter's New Policy on Blocking Posts Is Attacked, and Defended

    By J. DAVID GOODMAN
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pm
    Twitter incited anger among its international users on Friday after it announced a new method of blocking individual posts from appearing in certain countries. But some Internet advocacy groups defended it.

  • Voices of Chinese Workers in the 'iEconomy'

    By DANIEL MCDERMON
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:55 pm
    One of the filmmakers of "Dreamwork China," a new documentary focusing on the voices of young migrant workers in China, answers questions from The Lede.

  • Canadian Legonaut Returns From the Stratosphere Bearing Remarkable Images

    By ROBERT MACKEY
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    A two-inch Lego man, with a fixed grin and a Canadian flag in his hand, traveled about 80,000 feet above the Earth's surface to the upper stratosphere this month, and he has the stunning video to prove it.
 
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