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Iran to execute stone-throwing demonstrator

Iran to execute stone-throwing demonstrator »

A student who was arrested for throwing a stone during pro-democracy demonstrations is to be executed, Iran said yesterday. By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Source: Telegraph 16 March 2010 Mohammad-Amin Valian, a 20-year-old Islamic studies student, was ...

March 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »
‘Only rumours’ that Iran making nuclear weapons: Turkish PM

‘Only rumours’ that Iran making nuclear weapons: Turkish PM »

Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) March 17, 2010 LONDON — Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday it was “only rumours” that Iran was making nuclear weapons, stressing the Islamic republic’s right to develop civilian atomic power. Speaking...

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Iran’s Opposition Assails Economy

Iran’s Opposition Assails Economy »

Onetime presidential challengers chastise Ahmadinejad’s government for mishandling the country’s economy Source: The Wall Street Journal March 17, 2010 DUBAI—Iran’s top opposition leaders signaled Tuesday they were trying to broaden their movement’s popular appeal by emphasizing...

March 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

PLANET IRAN NEWS FOCUS

Tomorrow we visit Neda, Sohrab and the rest of our martyrs »

Tomorrow we visit Neda, Sohrab and the rest of our martyrs

Above: Photo of Parvin Fahimi, Sohrab Eraabi’s mother. March 17th, 2010 Tomorrow, Thursday, March 18th, 2010 the families of all the martyrs have called on...

Mar 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

News round-up & update on events inside Iran, March 17th & 18th »

News round-up & update on events inside Iran, March 17th & 18th

* * As Norooz approaches the price of food sky rockets in Iran, to the point where many of the normal food stuffs is...

Mar 17 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Live Blogging the Next Green Wave — Chaharshanbeh Souri (Festival of Fire) »

Live Blogging the Next Green Wave — Chaharshanbeh Souri (Festival of Fire)

Also see Planet Iran’s preamble to Chaharshanbeh Souri and the Supreme Leader’s Fatwa. Thanks to Google that has been provided to Iranians for free...

Mar 16 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Iranian regime-run media’s disinformation machine inadvertantly promotes Karoubi’s possible New Year (Norooz) message »

Iranian regime-run media’s disinformation machine inadvertantly promotes Karoubi’s possible New Year (Norooz) message

March 15, 2010 Regime-run newspaper Resalat writes: “A source close to one of the recent presidential candidates (Mahdi Karoubi) divulged that during several meetings, his...

Mar 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Volvo, Audi to launch production lines in Iran »

Volvo, Audi to launch production lines in Iran

Source: Khabar Online March 14, 2010 Two European makers of luxury cars, Sweden’s Volvo and Audi AG from Germany are reportedly to launch production lines...

Mar 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Switzerland discontinues all legal assistance to Iranian regime »

Switzerland discontinues all legal assistance to Iranian regime

March 15, 2010 The Swiss Federal Penal Court has discontinued all legal assistance to Iran. The Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung in it’s Monday, March...

Mar 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Feature Articles

Interview with Behzad Nabavi’s Interrogator »

Interview with Behzad Nabavi’s Interrogator

Source: Rooz Online Source: March 17, 2010 In this interview, published by the Panjere magazine, the interviewee is introduced as a person who has been involved in the interrogation and political prosecution of many prominent and lesser known detainees since Iran’s contested presidential election...

Mar 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Flight Of Iran’s Critical Voices Shows Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore »

Flight Of Iran’s Critical Voices Shows Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

By Golnaz Esfandiari Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) March 17, 2010 In early January, the daily dose of sarcasm that many Iranians had come to depend on in turbulent times disappeared from the blogosphere. Alireza Rezaei failed to update his popular blog for...

Mar 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Guidance Minister: We Acted Legally. Press Undersecretary: I Don’t Accept the Law! »

Guidance Minister: We Acted Legally. Press Undersecretary: I Don’t Accept the Law!

By: Samnak Aghaei Source: Rooz Online March 16, 2010 Mohammad Hosseini, Ahmadinejad cabinet’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance, defended his press undersecretary’s massive crackdown on independent and critical publications for the second time in a week two days ago.  Noting the reasons behind banning...

Mar 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

End of US export ban on Web tools leaves Iran, Cuba and Sudan speechless »

End of US export ban on Web tools leaves Iran, Cuba and Sudan speechless

Source: Deutsche Welle March 15, 2010 The US decision to allow the export of Internet tools to Iran, Cuba and Sudan won’t bring about instant change. But it does make life harder for the censors – and the regimes in question can’t ...

Mar 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

‘Freedom Was a Very Big Issue for Her’ »

‘Freedom Was a Very Big Issue for Her’

Source: Spiegel Online March 27, 2010 Fiance of Murdered Iranian Protester Neda Months after her murder in Tehran, little has been done to investigate the circumstances of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan’s death. Her former fiance, Caspian Makan, who fled the country to avoid being part...

Mar 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Supreme Leader Tries to Put Out the Fire »

The Supreme Leader Tries to Put Out the Fire

By Michael Ledeen Source: Pajamas Media March 15, 2010 The Iranian regime has always dreaded fun.  Western music is banned.  Unchaperoned boys & girls together is banned.  Women showing an ankle or some hair is banned, as is rental of bicycles to the ladies.  The...

Mar 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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Human Rights

Iran to execute stone-throwing demonstrator

Iran to execute stone-throwing demonstrator

A student who was arrested for throwing a stone during pro-democracy demonstrations is to be executed, Iran said yesterday. By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Source: Telegraph 16 March 2010 Mohammad-Amin Valian, a 20-year-old Islamic studies student,...

Mar 18, 2010 / More » Son of senior IRGC commander arrested

Son of senior IRGC commander arrested

Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF) March 16, 2010 The son of a very senior Revolutionary Guards commander has been arrested in Iran. Reliable sources have told the Green Voice of Freedom that the...

Mar 18, 2010 / More » Nowruz Action

Nowruz Action

Source: Amnesty International March 16, 2010 The Persian holiday Nowruz (“new day”) is an ancient holiday celebrated on the first day of spring to welcome in the new year. On this Nowruz...

Mar 18, 2010 / More »

Women & Minors

Statement by Iranian Women for International Women’s Day

Statement by Iranian Women for International Women’s Day

Photos below Deutsche Übersetzung des Statements auf Julias Blog lesen Official statement by a group of Iranian women’s rights activists who participated in a Green gathering commemorating March 8th. Source: Persian2English March 8, 2010 The...

Mar 13, 2010 / More » 120 Years of Struggle

120 Years of Struggle

By: Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi Source: Alliance of Iranian Women March 2010 In the late 1800’s Iranian women were the main force behind the constitutional movement and the subsequent revolution. The Qajar ...

Mar 13, 2010 / More » Green Gathering on International Women’s Day Iranian Women’s Rights Activists: We Will Stand by the People

Green Gathering on International Women’s Day Iranian Women’s Rights Activists: We Will Stand by the People

By Fereshteh Ghazi Source: Rooz Online March 10, 2010 In a gathering to mark the International Women’s Day, Iranian women’s rights activists called for the “eradication of discrimination against women in all laws, the...

Mar 13, 2010 / More »

Gay, Lesbian & Transsexual

Dissident Iranians find refuge in Turkey

Dissident Iranians find refuge in Turkey

By Anthony Faiola Source: The Washington Post Foreign Service February 15, 2010 Photo gallery KAYSERI, TURKEY — After an hours-long interrogation, Iranian intelligence agents trailed Aida Saadat to the dimly lit streets of her neighborhood in Tehran,...

Feb 15, 2010 / More » 5 Human Rights Groups Launch Worldwide ‘346 — NO EXECUTIONS’ CAMPAIGN

5 Human Rights Groups Launch Worldwide ‘346 — NO EXECUTIONS’ CAMPAIGN

January 28, 2010 Today, five human rights advocacy groups in five Western nations announced the official launching of the 346 No Executions campaign, a coordinated worldwide effort to inspire at least 346 citizens in...

Jan 28, 2010 / More » Gay Teen on Death-row: Case Unknown

Gay Teen on Death-row: Case Unknown

January 27, 2010 Source: Persian2English Deutsche Übersetzung auf Julias Blog lesen Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR)- All the follow-ups made on the case of Nemat Safavi, a teenager from Ardebil have been fruitless. He was...

Jan 28, 2010 / More »

Labor & Industry

Forcing Hunger on Iranian Workers in the New Year

Forcing Hunger on Iranian Workers in the New Year

Source: Deutsche Welle March 16, 2010 Jaafar Azim Zadeh, the head of the Free Assembly of Iranian Workers, has given an interview to Deutsche Welle on the recent decision of the Iran High...

Mar 18, 2010 / More » New Minimum Wage Rate Spurs Widespread Indignation

New Minimum Wage Rate Spurs Widespread Indignation

Source: Deutsche Welle March 16, 2010 The High Council on Labor recently announced the new minimum wages rate scheduled to start on the Iranian New Year March 20.  The rate has been set...

Mar 18, 2010 / More » Workers’ wages not paid for six months

Workers’ wages not paid for six months

Source: The Green Voice of Freedom March 9, 2010 An MP from the city of Arak has spoken of job losses at a plant of a company called Abangan in the city of Arak. Ahmad Lotfi...

Mar 10, 2010 / More »

Ethnic & Religious Minorities

Baha’i Prisoner Babak Mobasher Detained in Rajai Shahr Prison

Baha’i Prisoner Babak Mobasher Detained in Rajai Shahr Prison

Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA) March 10, 2010 After 60 days of receiving no information and thinking that is detained in Evin prison, we found out today that he...

Mar 14, 2010 / More » Two More Baha’i Students Banned from University

Two More Baha’i Students Banned from University

Source: Persian2English March 13, 2010 Tarbiat-Moalem (Teachers Training) University of Hesarak Parham Fazlali and Prisa Emadi are banned from their studies at Tarbiat-Moalem University of Hesarak because of their Baha’i faith. RAHANA - Parham Fazlali,...

Mar 14, 2010 / More » State Department criticizes Iran for persecuting religious minorities

State Department criticizes Iran for persecuting religious minorities

Source: CNN March 13, 2010 Washington – The State Department condemned Iran’s persecution of religious minorities on Friday following the Iranian authorities’ detention of Baha’is and Christians in recent months. Iranian authorities...

Mar 14, 2010 / More »

Regime Lobbies & Promoters Outside Iran

Iranian regime’s lobby in the U.S.

Iranian regime’s lobby in the U.S.

March 14, 2010 Below: A very important video series (in Persian with English subtitles), interviews with Hassan Dai, founder of Reports on Mullahs Lobby in the U.S. and co-founder of Progressive American-Iranian Committee, both...

Mar 14, 2010 / More » Iranian regime lobby in DC becomes active in winning friends and influencing the U.S. Congress

Iranian regime lobby in DC becomes active in winning friends and influencing the U.S. Congress

To find out more about NIAC and their activities as the main lobby of the Iranian regime in Washington DC, please refer to the large number of articles on offer in our ‘Regime...

Mar 2, 2010 / More » Iran’s Man in Washington

Iran’s Man in Washington

How Flynt Leverett and his wife, Hillary Mann Leverett, became leading advocates for doing business with Tehran By Lee Smith February 9, 2010 Source: Tablet Magazine First in a two-part series on the dueling Iran...

Feb 9, 2010 / More »

International Companies in Business with Iran

Volvo, Audi to launch production lines in Iran

Volvo, Audi to launch production lines in Iran

Source: Khabar Online March 14, 2010 Two European makers of luxury cars, Sweden’s Volvo and Audi AG from Germany are reportedly to launch production lines in Iran by the next year. As Khabar Online...

Mar 15, 2010 / More » 2 Multinationals Pull Back From Iran

2 Multinationals Pull Back From Iran

By Ron Nixon Source: The New York Times March 10, 2010 The announcements came as the United States and its European allies stepped up their efforts to win a tough new round of United ...

Mar 13, 2010 / More » Shell Halts Gasoline Sales to Iran

Shell Halts Gasoline Sales to Iran

Company Is Latest European Energy Firm to Act as U.S. Considers Sanctions By Guy Chazan and Spencer Swartz Source: The Wall Street Journal March 11, 2010 Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it has stopped gasoline...

Mar 11, 2010 / More »

Oil & Gas

Iran wastes $120 million oil revenue a day

Iran wastes $120 million oil revenue a day

Source: Khabar Online March 11, 2010 Ali Shams Ardakani, the head of energy commission of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines (ICC IM) said currently $120 million revenue is wasted everyday in...

Mar 11, 2010 / More » Iran sells crude oil to Europe at lower price

Iran sells crude oil to Europe at lower price

Source: Khabar Online March 6, 2010 Although Iranian oil officials have stressed their policy is focused on selling crude oil to Asia rather than Europe, figures show that in reality Iran’s oil price exported to...

Mar 8, 2010 / More » Smith International to pull out of Iran, Sudan

Smith International to pull out of Iran, Sudan

Source: Reuters March 1, 2010 * Smith says countries not “strategically significant” * Iran, Sudan, Syria accounted for 1 pct of 2009 revenue SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (Reuters) – Smith International Inc (SII.N), an oilfield services company...

Mar 2, 2010 / More »
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