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 at normal speeds to everyone throughout Iran.
On Chahar-Shanbeh Souri batons burn better than bushes and bramble
Planet Iran Editor’s note: Chahar-Shanbeh Souri (direct translation is Wednesday Festival) the feast [...]
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 advisers have convinced him to tape a video message on the occasion of the Iranian New Year (Norooz) of the upcoming year Islamic calendar year 1389. The main issue discussed during [...]
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 correspondent reports, the representatives of the two companies are currently in Tehran negotiating with a team of directors of Iranian [...]
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 15th edition writes that the Swiss prosecutor’s office has cited the reason to be the ongoing human rights violations committed at the hands of the regime in Tehran and has announced [...]
March 14, 2010
Fearful Supreme Leader Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has condemned the ancient Persian festival of fire, an annual celebration held on the last Tuesday night/Wednesday eve of the year, prior to the national Persian New Year, Norooz which celebrated the Vernal Equinox, the arrival of spring.
The Chahar Shanbe Soori festival, in which celebrants traditionally [...]
ABOVE: The black spray paint reads: “Death to Karoubi, “Death to Khatami”. The yellow, red and blue sign reads: “Karoubi, congrats on your alliance with the BBC”
ABOVE: One of the regime’s typical teenage protesters-for-hire, holds a sign that reads: “Illiterate and uneducated Karoubi is a puppet of the Mossad” and in yellow underneath it is [...]
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 excellent sites dedicated to exposing the lobbyists of the Iranian regime at work in Washington DC.
Planet Iran will continue to bring [...]
By Ardalan Sayami
Source: Rooz Online
March 13, 2010
Yesterday ended with a Majlis no vote to the administration’s request to spend 40 billion Toman (40 million USD) of funds derived from the subsidy reform plan, but analysts noted last night that this was just perhaps the beginning of the story. It all began [...]
Join Planet Iran’s Chaharshanbeh Souri live blogging of the next wave 0f protests in Iran: March 16th and 17th.
* * Asr’eh Iran website reports: On Saturday, March 13th an ad hoc meeting of the Iranian National and Foreign Affairs Security Commission took place in Tehran. The meeting was attended by some of the [...]
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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 Feminist School – On the afternoon of March 7, 2010, a ceremony celebrating International Women’s Day took place in Tehran. [...]
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