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News round-up & update for August 1st & 2nd

Posted by Zand-Bon on Aug 1st, 2010 and filed under News, PLANET IRAN NEWS FOCUS, Photos, Video, video gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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Sadegh Al Hosseini, Ahmadinejad's Mid East advisor

* * The website, run by supporters of Ahmadinejad published a report entitled “This fall smells like gunpowder”. The report reads: “Analyst Sadegh Al Hosseini, has announced that in the coming fall the U.S. is planning on activating a new ‘scenario’ against the Iranian regime which are designed to accuse the United Lebanese Islam Republic (Hezbollah) in the assassination of Rafiq Al Hariri, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon. They will claim that the Iranian government that ordered his assassination and they will use our nuclear issues, among others, as an excuse to create new intrigues and treachery (against us). Employing tribal wars in Iraq, they will measure Hezbollah’s reaction. Then they will pressure Syria in order to sever ties with the Iranian regime. All this will be done in order to agitate the Iranian regime claiming that we have evaded our commitment to the international community.

* * Importation of all printing products and machinery from the Britain to Iran is now banned. The Director of Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of Islamic Guidance has issued an order rescinding the permit for the importation of all such equipment into Iran. The ordinance claims that the reason for such action is that since the fraudulent election of June 2009, Britain has played a leading role in placing sanctions on Iran and has ‘sided with’ the leaders of sedition.

Since June 2009, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mahdi Karoubi and other leaders of the opposition have been called ‘the leaders of sedition.’

* * Tabriz’s Grand Bazaar, a historic complex located in Iran’s northwestern province of East Azarbaijan was named as a World Heritage site by the UNESCO World Heritage Center on Sunday. The news was announced by the Director of East Azarbaijan’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, Torab Mohammadi at the 34th meeting of the World Heritage Committee currently in session in Brasilia, Brazil. Mohammadi said: “This is the first time that the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Center selects a ‘ bazaar’ as a valuable cultural heritage”.

The Grand Bazaar which is located in the center of the city of Tabriz is one of the oldest bazaars of the Middle East and the largest covered bazar in the world. This unique structure is a collection of secondary bazaars each of which employs  different economic, merchandising and cultural spaces. Modern shopping centers and western-style malls have been established over recent year however the Tabriz Bazaar continues to operate at the economic heart of the Northwestern Iranian city.

In recent weeks however, the Tabriz Bazaar has remained closed, .

* * Below: A video of the Iranian regimediplomats in London, attacking and abusing Iranian demonstrators who demand answers about the human rights abuses in Iran.

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