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		<title>Interview with Behzad Nabavi’s Interrogator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 9 months  ago. 
 
Here are the key excerpts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12653</link>
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		<title>Forcing Hunger on Iranian Workers in the New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Council on Labor to set the minimum wage at 303.48 US Dollars  this coming new year.  The following is the translation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12677</link>
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		<title>New Minimum Wage Rate Spurs Widespread Indignation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 to 303.48 US dollars per month.  The same rate for the  previous year stood at 263 US dollars.  The rate announced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12674</link>
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		<title>Iran to execute stone-throwing demonstrator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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  arrested on    the basis of a photograph taken at a mass demonstration against the  rigged  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12665</link>
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		<title>Flight Of Iran&#8217;s Critical Voices Shows Joke Isn&#8217;t Funny Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 days, prompting loyal readers to fear the  worst. Had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12659</link>
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		<title>Guidance Minister: We Acted Legally. Press Undersecretary: I Don’t Accept the Law!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 independent  and reformist publications, he claimed, “The ministry of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12656</link>
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		<title>Abdolkarim Soroush in Exclusive Interview with Rooz: Democracy Is Not Extractable from Islam</title>
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By Nooshabeh Amiri
Source: Rooz Online
March 17, 2010
Rooz spoke with prominent thinker  Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush about the separation of church and state,  disagreements between seculars and religious reformists and the green  movement’s future.  Noting that, “With political, trans-religious  secularism, a person who is pious is assured that his religion and faith  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12650</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Only rumours&#8217; that Iran making nuclear weapons: Turkish PM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)
March 17, 2010
LONDON — Turkey&#8217;s prime minister said Tuesday it was &#8220;only rumours&#8221;  that Iran was making nuclear weapons, stressing the Islamic republic&#8217;s  right to develop civilian atomic power.
Speaking before meeting  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also  questioned why countries like Israel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12647</link>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Opposition Assails Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Onetime presidential challengers chastise Ahmadinejad&#8217;s government for mishandling the country&#8217;s economy
Source: The Wall Street Journal
March 17, 2010
DUBAI—Iran&#8217;s top opposition leaders signaled Tuesday  they were trying to broaden their movement&#8217;s popular appeal by  emphasizing the economic shortcomings of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s  government.
Mehdi Karroubi, who unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Ahmadinejad in June  polls, heaped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12645</link>
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		<title>Pakistan, Iran sign deal on natural gas pipeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Reuters
March 17, 2010
Pakistan has signed a deal with Iran paving the way for the construction  of a much-delayed pipeline pumping Iranian natural gas to the  energy-starved South Asian country, officials said on Wednesday.
The $7.6 billion project is crucial for  Pakistan to avert a growing energy crisis already causing severe  electricity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/12643</link>
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