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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 his sentence is death.” Saeed Malekpour is a metallurgy engineering graduate from Sharif Industrial University and a resident of Canada who came [...]
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 their normal lives and showed little interest in following the [...]
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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 told Rooz that the Islamic republic supreme leader’s reception was “much less” than compared to previous visits. He added that, [...]
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 in this holy city and held discussions with him. While the official news site of the leader of the Islamic [...]
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 now equal. Massoud Hadian Dehkordi has said that there are currently 3,790,859 students in the country, of which he said [...]
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 reports. The two were among a range of women’s activities deemed criminal by Hassan Karami in an announcement on October [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 21, 2010 Jailed Iranian religious scholar Ahmad Ghabel has appeared in court where he again denied charges of acting against national security, his wife has told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda. Ghabel was arrested in December on his way to the funeral of senior dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. [...]
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 was ‘Israeli Women Sell Their Bodies: [Pictures Included]‘ and the first paragraph said: ‘In a blatant act of decadence and social moral corruption, women are displayed for sale in shop windows throughout Israel’s [...]
* * State-run daily, Iran, reports that in recent days, four of the ‘Mournful Mothers’, all women who have lost children in the anti-regime protests in Iran since the June 2009 fraudulent election, were arrested. Agents arrested the four women at Tehran’s airport, while they were waiting to board flights to Germany. The Iranian regime [...]