* * As Norooz approaches the price of food sky rockets in Iran, to the point where many of the normal food stuffs is unaffordable even to the middle classes in Iran, let alone the millions of the poor who cannot afford much to set their NoRooz Haft-Seen table or prepare the traditional NoRooz dinner.
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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 [...]
Source: BBC
March 15, 2010
Brazil’s president arrives in Israel
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has arrived in Israel where he begins a tour of the Middle East.
He is visiting Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan ahead of a more controversial visit to Iran in May.
While in the region Lula will throw [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy March 9, 2010
Chair: Stephane Bussard , UN correspondent for Le Temps Introduction followed by Caspian Makan, Human Rights Activist, Fiancé of Neda Agha-Soltan
David Suurland, Expert on Internet freedom, Activist for Iranian protest movement
Shaheen Sariri, International Relations Student and Director of the Foreign Relations Committee of Human Rights [...]
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 [...]
* * Mothers of Plaza de Mayo of Argentina announce their solidarity with Iran’s Mournful Mothers. Hebe de Bonafini, President of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo wrote: “Repression of the Iranian government has already killed 57 people and detained more than 4000 opponents.
Iranian mothers gathered for the first time on July 28, 2009 [...]
* * Below: a video of Iranian residents of Germany at the Hannover tech fair protest the presence of representatives of the Iranian Telecom (owned and run by the revolutionary guards in Iran). Prior to the fair, the Iranian protesters published open letters in German publications objecting to the presence of, effectively the representatives [...]
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