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Arab Iranians suffer cultural marginalization

Arab Iranians suffer cultural marginalization

WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlS LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend  Link HTML:  Permalink:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More » Ahwazi movie goers go for satellite channels By Ramadan al-Saedi Source: AlArabiya August 30, 2010 LONDON – Several movie theaters [...]

Oh Lord: Why Iran’s National Search Engine Will Likely Fail

Oh Lord: Why Iran’s National Search Engine Will Likely Fail

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) August 29, 2010 August 29, 2010 According to various reports, Iran will launch its own national search engine by 2012. From “The Jerusalem Post”: Hadi Malek-Parast, Director General for Research and Development at the Iranian Information Technology Company, told the Iranian Mehr News Agency on Sunday that Iran has [...]

Ebadi Calls On UN To Take Up Jailed Iranian Journalist’s Case

Ebadi Calls On UN To Take Up Jailed Iranian Journalist’s Case

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) August 30, 2010 Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has written a letter to the UN’s high commissioner for human rights in support of jailed Iranian journalist Isa Saharkhiz, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Saharkhiz was detained in mass arrests following the disputed presidential election in June 2009. Ebadi [...]

‘Torturer Of Tehran’ Loses His Untouchable Status

‘Torturer Of Tehran’ Loses His Untouchable Status

By Robert Tait Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) August 27, 2010 With a frightening reputation and friends in high places, Said Mortazavi for years appeared to have the untouchable status that bred impunity and led his enemies to label him the “torturer of Tehran.” As a judge and prosecutor, he shut down more than [...]

Neda’s mother appeals for help in finding killer

Neda’s mother appeals for help in finding killer

Source: CNN August 30, 2010 Tehran, Iran – The mother of the 26-year-old woman whose videotaped shooting last year in Tehran sparked anti-government demonstrations throughout Iran appealed Monday to international human rights organizations and to the international court in The Hague for help in prosecuting her daughter’s killer. “I have kept my silence all this [...]

Beneath Iraq, Afghan, Israel Policy: Iran, Iran, Iran

Beneath Iraq, Afghan, Israel Policy: Iran, Iran, Iran

By Gerald F. Seib Source: The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) August 31, 2010 When President Barack Obama speaks to the nation Tuesday night about Iraq, he’ll be marking the removal of American combat troops from that nation, an important milestone. But his address will signify something much broader as well. This week’s Iraq moment means [...]

Iran has no intention to make nuclear bomb: FM

Iran has no intention to make nuclear bomb: FM

Source: Xinhua August 30, 2010 TEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that Iran has no intention to make nuclear bombs, local satellite Press TV reported on Monday. Mottaki said that the UN anti-Iran sanctions demonstrates the West’s logic of coercion, according to the report. “They (the Westerners) assert that Iran may have the [...]

Iran says it will make fuel for research reactor

Iran says it will make fuel for research reactor

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Source: The Associated Press (AP)/The Washington Post August 30, 2010 TEHRAN, Iran — Iran claimed Monday that it will produce fuel for a research reactor that makes medical isotopes within a year, a project likely to add to Western concerns about the country’s nuclear ambitions. Iran has justified its decision to [...]

‘Iran will hit Dimona if attacked’

‘Iran will hit Dimona if attacked’

Official tells ‘Asharq AlAwsat’ Tehran does not fear Israel, U.S. Source: The Jerusalem Post August 30, 2010 Teheran will target Israel’s Dimona reactor in a retaliatory attack if the Islamic regime is hit by an Israeli or US air strike, a Iranian official told the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Monday. “Teheran is aware that [...]

Iran launches 4,000 telecom projects

Iran launches 4,000 telecom projects

Source: Iranian regime-run English language daily, Tehran Times August 22, 2010 Iran has launched more than 4,000 telecommunication and postal projects worth up to 1,900 billion rials (around 200 million dollars) in four provinces. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the projects in the Provinces of Khorasan Razavi, Kerman, Bushehr and Isfahan through video conference on [...]

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