by Sam Razi | Sep 28, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
CBC | September 28, 2010 A Canadian-Iranian blogger has been sentenced in Tehran to 19 years in prison after being convicted of creating anti-government propaganda. Hossein Derakhshan was arrested in Tehran on Nov. 1, 2008. He was tried on charges of collaborating...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/27/irans-interrupted-lives/ | September 27, 2010 Haleh Esfandiari Indeed—as a small photography exhibition about student repression in Iran at Georgetown Law School this month powerfully reminded us—hundreds of Iranian...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics, World
RIANOVOSTI | September 27, 2010 Russia’s ban on the sale of S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran was the result of Tehran’s “flawed foreign policies”, a top Russian deputy said Monday. “The ban is not Russia’s choice; it is the...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, World
Foreign Policy: Passport Blog | September 27, 2010 by Blake Hounshell By now, you’ve probably heard of Stuxnet, the mysterious computer worm that infects Windows computers running software designed by Siemens, the German industrial giant. The software, Simatic...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Opinion, Politics, World
National Review | September 27, 2010 By Ali Alfoneh Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not have many friends, especially not in Iran. But in the distant United States, he appears to have quite a fan club. Take professors Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, whose...
by Sam Razi | Sep 26, 2010 | Business, Featured, From the Web, Politics
L.A. Times Blog | Babylon & Beyond | September 26, 2010 Tehran’s main gold bazaar is usually glittering with precious baubles and jewelry fit for royalty, but the last several days have seen it shuttered and empty as the union of goldsmiths and jewelers...