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Source: Reuters March 30, 2010 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – As Iran’s regime continues to stir world concerns, films about Iranian history take on added interest. Director Shirin Neshat was born in Iran, but her controversial photographs and experimental videos have made it impossible for her to return; she now lives in New York. Neshat’s [...]
Source: BBC March 30, 2010 An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Pakistan in 2008 has been freed and returned to Iran, according to Iranian diplomatic sources. Gunmen seized Heshmatollah Attarzadeh as he drove to work at the Iranian consulate in Pakistan’s north-western city of Peshawar in November 2008. Mr Attarzadeh was the commercial attache at [...]
Source: Bloomberg March 30, 2010 The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, is a generous man. He heads a network of non-profit development agencies and plans to open a museum for his collection of Islamic art in Toronto in 2013. Until the building is completed, he is loaning the art to [...]
March 30, 2010 A statement signed by seventy members of US Congress concerning mismanagement at Voice of America’s Persian news Network states: “The apparent lack of oversight regarding the management, staffing, mission, and content of VOA-PNN broadcasting- an American-taxpayer-funded program-ironically may have harmed the plight of those seeking human rights, instead of helping it.” To [...]
March 30, 2010 On May 13th, 2010 the United Nations General Assembly in New York will select the fourteen members of the Human Rights Council. The membership term of the Asian group countries such as India, Indonesia, The Philippines and Qatar has been fulfilled and now three other countries from the Asian group countries will [...]
By Reza Khalili Source: A Time to Betray Blog March 30, 2010 A newly released CIA report states that Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009. It goes on to say “”Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, [...]
By Ken Timmerman Source: Newsmax March 30, 2010 A former Iranian Revolution Guards officer who spied for the CIA in Iran for nearly decade is telling his story in a new book that will hit bookstores next week. “A Time to Betray” provides a riveting account of how the author, who uses the pseudonym Reza [...]
Source: Scotsman 30 March 2010 THERE is a “strong case” for developing a missile shield to defend Europe against aggression from Iran the armed forces minister said yesterday. Amid concerns that Tehran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, Bill Rammell said the government supported technology that would see a defensive shield covering the continent. His [...]
Source: Persian2English March 29, 2010 According to reports, on the morning of March 27, 2010, *Seyyed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, who is detained in the clerics ward of Evin prison, was beaten and insulted by guards. He was also threatened with transfer to solitary confinement. The prison officials have offered no explanation, but it seems the [...]
