Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 9, 2010
Simin Behbahani was prevented from leaving for France for International Women’s Day ceremonies.
RAHANA – “Paris municipality had invited me for March 8 and I had prepared a text about feminism and a poem about women which I was going to read at the ceremony and [...]
Iranians seeking to marry their love of their lives will soon have to earn official qualifications from the government before they are allowed to pop the question.
Source: Telegraph
10 March 2010
Men and women who want to enter into matrimony will have to undergo a three-month course of prenuptial training, for which they will [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 9, 2010
Internet giant Google has welcomed a U.S. decision to relax restrictions that have prevented U.S. companies from exporting Internet services and software to Iran, Cuba, and Sudan.
The U.S. Treasury Department eased the sanctions on March 8, allowing U.S. companies to export services to those countries that are related [...]
Source: Al Jazeera
March 9, 2010
Recep Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, has cautioned against further UN Security Council sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme during a visit to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
“I don’t believe that any further sanctions will yield results,” Erdogan told journalists, adding that earlier rounds of sanctions ”have never yielded results.”
Turkey, which has good [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 9, 2010
It’s rare to have Iran-related news coming out of Prague, but here’s an encouraging one for all those fighting for more rights and democracy inside the country.
Two activists and representatives of Iran’s student movement, Abdollah Momeni and Majid Tavakoli, are this year’s recipients of the Homo Homini Award, [...]
Source: Reuters and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 8, 2010
TEHRAN — Iran’s parliament approved President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s 2010/11 budget today, state radio reported, but some lawmakers attacked the plan, saying planned cuts in subsidies could spark runaway inflation.
“It was approved,” speaker Ali Larijani said. The Mehr news agency said 151 deputies out of 290 approved [...]
Source: Reuters
March 9, 2010
BERLIN — Germany has said it turned down a request from Iran to extradite a Kurdish leader, who was detained but later freed, prompting an angry response from Tehran.
The news came a day after Germany, which is involved in international efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear program, said it would grant political asylum [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF)
March 9, 2010
Following the decision by the German government to accept a certain number of political refugees from Iran, German Green Member of the European Parliament Barbara Lochbihler, Chair of the EU Parliament delegation to Iran, has issued the following statement:
“I warmly welcome the decision of the German government [...]
Hours after he avows U.S. support, officials there announce plans for new housing in a disputed area.
By Paul Richter
Source: Los Angeles Times
March 10, 2010
Reporting from Jerusalem – In the midst of a high-profile trip by Vice President Joe Biden, Israel unveiled plans for new housing in disputed Jerusalem on Tuesday, a surprise step that embarrassed [...]
Source: Voice of America (VOA)
9 March 2010
Iran’s top press official is warning the editors and publishers of 17 newspapers they will be shut down if they do not conform to government regulations. Two reformist papers were shut down last month and dozens of opposition journalists have been arrested since a disputed presidential election in June.
Iranian [...]
