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Israeli Takes Away Chess Record From Iranian

Israeli Takes Away Chess Record From Iranian »

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 22, 2010 An Israeli grandmaster has taken the Guinness record for simultaneous chess games away from the previous holder, who is Iranian. Alik Gershon, 30, is now the...

October 23 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
Grand Ayatollahs and People Absent; Qods Army and Jaish al-Mahdi Organize Khamenei’s Reception »

Grand Ayatollahs and People Absent; Qods Army and Jaish al-Mahdi Organize Khamenei’s Reception » »

By Moahammad Reza Yazdanpanah Source: Rooz Online October 21, 2010 While state-run media are boasting a historic reception for ayatollah Khamenei in his visit to Qom, an informed source who participated in the welcome ceremony...

October 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »
News Blackout on Khamenei’s Meetings

News Blackout on Khamenei’s Meetings »

By Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah Source: Rooz Online October 21, 2010 At the end of the second day of ayatollah Khamenei’s visit to Qom, some clerical leaders and senior ayatollah’s visited the office of Iran’s leader...

October 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Has The Government Reduced Female University Enrollment?

Has The Government Reduced Female University Enrollment? »

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 20, 2010 The head of Iran’s Research and Planning Organization of Higher Studies has said that the number of male and female students in the Islamic republic is...

October 21 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
Iranian Police Chief Targets Women Cyclists, Roller-Skaters

Iranian Police Chief Targets Women Cyclists, Roller-Skaters »

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 20, 2010 The new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan says it is a crime for women to cycle or roller-skate in public, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda...

October 21 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

PLANET IRAN NEWS FOCUS

A Message from Planet Iran’s Editor »

A Message from Planet Iran’s Editor

Dear Readers, Due to lack of funding Planet Iran is unable to continue publishing at this point in time; we can only survive with...

Nov 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

How Pro-Ahmadinejad News Websites Twist Facts »

How Pro-Ahmadinejad News Websites Twist Facts

Source: Azarmehr Blog October 21, 2010 Combing through Iran news today, I came across an article in one of the pro-Ahmadinejad websites. The title...

Oct 21 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

News round-up & update for October 21st & 22nd » »

News round-up & update for October 21st & 22nd »

* * State-run daily, Iran, reports that in recent days, four of the ‘Mournful Mothers’, all women who have lost children in the anti-regime...

Oct 21 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

News round-up & update for October 19th & 20th »

News round-up & update for October 19th & 20th

Ahmadinejad to journalist: “Who says we don’t have absolute freedom?” cartoon by Nikahang Kosar * * Below: A video of the city of Qom...

Oct 19 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Revolutionary Guards’ involvement in economy »

Revolutionary Guards’ involvement in economy

Khatam-ol Anbiya’ Corporation to take part in newly-launched project to construct Iran’s largest highway Source: The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center October...

Oct 18 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Supreme Leader issues decision on conflict between Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani over Azad University »

Supreme Leader issues decision on conflict between Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani over Azad University

Both sides claim victory Source: The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center October 18, 2010 In a letter published last week by the...

Oct 18 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Feature Articles

The Islamic Republic Before and After the 2009 Elections »

The Islamic Republic Before and After the 2009 Elections

By Roozbeh Mirebrahimi Source: Rooz Online October 21, 2010 Years ago whenever family friends and my acquaintances got together with me, because I was a journalist, I would always be asked questions related to issues of the day. Most of these individuals were busy with...

Oct 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Dread juggernaut of conflict with Iran is drawing closer »

Dread juggernaut of conflict with Iran is drawing closer

The US drive to isolate Tehran is unrelenting but there is little evidence Iran’s leadership will change its ways By Simon Tisdall Source: Guardian October 21, 2010 The US is quietly ratcheting up economic and financial pressure on Iran amid signs that talks about Tehran’s...

Oct 21 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Tehran’s Press Offensive; The Dangers of Being a Journalist in Iran »

Tehran’s Press Offensive; The Dangers of Being a Journalist in Iran

By Dieter Bednarz, Markus Brauck and Antje Windmann Source: Spiegel Online October 18, 2010 ozens of Iranian journalists are languishing in prison with scores more having recently fled the country. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime has been aggressive in its pursuit of critics — and increasingly,...

Oct 20 2010 / No comment / Read More »

How can Ahmadinejad help Lebanon with financial woes plaguing Iran? »

How can Ahmadinejad help Lebanon with financial woes plaguing Iran?

Thousands of Hezbollah sympathizers welcomed the Iranian president in Lebanon, but at home, even his supporters are questioning his economic policies. By Zvi Bar’el Source: Haaretz October 20, 2010 On his trip to the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail last week, Iranian President Mahmoud...

Oct 20 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Unlikely Partnership Of Venezuela And Iran »

The Unlikely Partnership Of Venezuela And Iran

By Reza Taghizadeh Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 19, 2010 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is due to visit Tehran this week in the wake of visits to Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. While Chavez unveiled a host of new deals while in Moscow, in...

Oct 19 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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Human Rights

Saeed Malekpour’s Wife Tells Rooz: Prison Sentence Before the Trial

Saeed Malekpour’s Wife Tells Rooz: Prison Sentence Before the Trial

By Fereshteh Ghazi Source: Rooz Online October 20, 2010 The fourth session of Saeed Malekpour’s trial is scheduled for 26th October, but his wife says, “Judge Moghise has told Saeed’s defense attorney that...

Oct 22, 2010 / More » Chocolate thief has hand cut off in Iran for repeated robberies

Chocolate thief has hand cut off in Iran for repeated robberies

Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur/Monsters & Critics October 16, 2010 A man has had one of his hands cut off in Iran for repeated robbery, including stealing chocolate from a pastry in the capital Tehran,...

Oct 16, 2010 / More » The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Report of the Secretary-General

The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Report of the Secretary-General

Download report (PDF) Contents I. Introduction II. Thematic issues A. Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including flogging and amputations B. Death penalty and public executions C. Executions of juvenile...

Oct 16, 2010 / More »

Women & Minors

‘This Is The Islamic Republic’

‘This Is The Islamic Republic’

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 20, 2010 Blogger “The Writings from the Heart of a Citizen Journalist” writes about a young boy he saw in central Tehran who was forced to...

Oct 21, 2010 / More » Has The Government Reduced Female University Enrollment?

Has The Government Reduced Female University Enrollment?

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 20, 2010 The head of Iran’s Research and Planning Organization of Higher Studies has said that the number of male and female students in the Islamic...

Oct 21, 2010 / More » Iranian Police Chief Targets Women Cyclists, Roller-Skaters

Iranian Police Chief Targets Women Cyclists, Roller-Skaters

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 20, 2010 The new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan says it is a crime for women to cycle or roller-skate in public, RFE/RL’s...

Oct 21, 2010 / More »

Gay, Lesbian & Transsexual

Being gay in Iran

Being gay in Iran

(Video) Meeting in secret, living in fear: Members of Iran’s LGBT community tell of arrests, beatings, rape – and escape to the West. But ‘people are showing less fear of the Islamic regime,’...

Aug 24, 2010 / More » Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy

Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy

The client of human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei has been sentenced to death in spite of retracted testimony By Saeed Kamali Dehghan Source: Guardian August 8, 2010 An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent...

Aug 8, 2010 / More » Gay Illegal Immigrant Seeks Asylum with Deportation to Iran Pending

Gay Illegal Immigrant Seeks Asylum with Deportation to Iran Pending

Mohammad Abdollahi’s Case Highlights Complexity of Asylum Petition Process By Devin Dwyer Source: ABC News July 27, 2010 By the time Mohammad Abdollahi figured out he had been living in the United States...

Jul 27, 2010 / More »

Labor & Industry

Reza Shahabi still in jail despite posting bail

Reza Shahabi still in jail despite posting bail

October 15, 2010 According to the latest news from Iran, Reza Shahabi, Treasurer and board member of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, who has been incarcerated since June...

Oct 16, 2010 / More » What If Chile’s Mining Accident Had Happened In Iran?

What If Chile’s Mining Accident Had Happened In Iran?

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 14, 2010 Iranian blogger Arman has some theories about what it would look like if miners had been trapped underground in the Islamic republic: In Iran,...

Oct 14, 2010 / More » Unpaid Workers Go On Strike In Iran

Unpaid Workers Go On Strike In Iran

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 8, 2010 Workers at two plants in southern Iran went on strike this week to demand unpaid wages, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. An employee at Kaghaz...

Oct 11, 2010 / More »

Ethnic & Religious Minorities

Iran Accused of Secretly Hanging Kurdish Dissidents

Iran Accused of Secretly Hanging Kurdish Dissidents

By Haidar Mukhtari October 15, 2010 The Islamic Republic of Iran is still among the top countries that has the largest number of death penalties. The Kurds say that they constitute the “lion’s...

Oct 16, 2010 / More » Iran sentences Baha’i aide to Nobel laureate to 2 years in jail

Iran sentences Baha’i aide to Nobel laureate to 2 years in jail

Source: CNN October 2, 2010 Tehran, Iran – A Baha’i assistant of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has been sentenced to two years in prison in Iran, the semi-official Mashregh news website...

Oct 4, 2010 / More » Pressure Intensified on Baha’i Women in Mashhad Prison

Pressure Intensified on Baha’i Women in Mashhad Prison

Source: Human Rights House of Iran (RAHANA) September 30, 2010 According to the RAHANA reporter, when Baha’i citizen Rozita Vaseghi who had endured 6 months of solitary confinement, joined the other 3 detainees...

Oct 1, 2010 / More »

Regime Lobbies & Promoters Outside Iran

Did NIAC defraud the Congressional funds?

Did NIAC defraud the Congressional funds?

Examination of NIAC’s internal documents released during a defamation lawsuit suggests that this organization has violated the rules governing Congressional funds. Source: www.iranianlobby.com April 30, 2010 To see the entire report in pdf...

May 20, 2010 / More » UPDATED >> Iranian regime’s lobby in the U.S.

UPDATED >> Iranian regime’s lobby in the U.S.

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,...

Mar 14, 2010 / More » Iranian regime lobby in DC becomes active in winning friends and influencing the U.S. Congress

Iranian regime lobby in DC becomes active in winning friends and influencing the U.S. Congress

To find out more about NIAC and their activities as the main lobby of the Iranian regime in Washington DC, please refer to the large number of articles on offer in our ‘Regime...

Mar 2, 2010 / More »

International Companies in Business with Iran

Nokia accused of more complicity with repressive Iran

Nokia accused of more complicity with repressive Iran

Shared CEOs with Trovicor has Access saying “pull the other one” Source: TechEYE.net October 18, 2010 As Nokia touts its N8 smartphone reaching the shores of Britain, Access Now’s “No to Nokia” campaign...

Oct 19, 2010 / More » US fears Chinese companies are breaking Iran sanctions

US fears Chinese companies are breaking Iran sanctions

Source: BBC October 18, 2010 The United States has asked the Chinese government to do more to stop Chinese companies helping Iran with its nuclear programme and missile technology. A senior US official...

Oct 18, 2010 / More » A Year Later, Nokia Still Can’t Escape Connections To Iran Repression

A Year Later, Nokia Still Can’t Escape Connections To Iran Repression

By Andy Greenberg Source: Forbes Blog The Firewall October 14, 2010 Here’s a lesson for corporations selling high tech surveillance equipment to digitally repressive regimes: The taint of dictatorship isn’t easy to wash...

Oct 15, 2010 / More »

Oil & Gas

Statement on INPEX’s Decision to Withdraw from Iran

Statement on INPEX’s Decision to Withdraw from Iran

Philip J. Crowley Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs Washington, DC October 15, 2010 The United States welcomes the decision by the Japanese oil company INPEX to withdraw from its investments in Iran. The...

Oct 15, 2010 / More » Crude market oversupplied: Iran’s OPEC governor

Crude market oversupplied: Iran’s OPEC governor

Source: Reuters Africa October 9, 2010 TEHRAN – Iran’s OPEC governor said oil prices were “nominal” and the crude market was oversupplied, the Students News Agency ISNA reported on Saturday. “The prices of...

Oct 10, 2010 / More » Japanese Sanctions May Cut Iran Oil Exports by 25%, Nomura Says

Japanese Sanctions May Cut Iran Oil Exports by 25%, Nomura Says

By Raj Rajendran Source: Bloomberg October 5, 2010 Japanese sanctions against Iran, the second-largest oil producer in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia, may reduce crude exports from the Persian Gulf nation by...

Oct 5, 2010 / More »
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