by Sam Razi | Aug 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Must Read, Politics
Radio Zamaneh | August 5, 2010 Fars news agency reports that the Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was attacked at Nour Mosque of Tehran which caused his bodyguards to defuse the situation by shooting into the air. Taghi Karroubi, son of the opposition leader,...
by Sam Razi | Aug 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics
Associated Press | August 5, 2010 by Ali Akbar Dareini TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s official news agency said Wednesday that an explosion near the president’s convoy was just an excited fan setting off fireworks, denying earlier reports of an...
by Sam Razi | Aug 5, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, Politics
Well-known Iranian political cartoonist, Nikahang Kowsar, latest cartoon lampooning Ahmadinejad’s statement that that England is an island off the coast of West Africa: (source: Rooz...
by Sam Razi | Aug 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics
Telegraph | August 5, 2010 By Damien McElroy Iran claimed it had smuggled four S-300 anti aircraft missile systems with a 90 mile range in defiance of United Nations sanction that prompted a Russian ban on selling the sophisticated defence system to Tehran. US and...
by Sam Razi | Aug 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics, World
NPR | August 5, 2010 by Mike Shuster Signals have come from Iran and the U.S. in recent days that suggest a willingness of both nations to return to the negotiating table. This comes as something of a surprise, given the recent economic sanctions imposed on Iran and...
by Sam Razi | Aug 4, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics
Wall Street Journal | August 5, 2010 By Shirin Ebadi Iran’s penal code reserves the harshest punishments for women. The harrowing case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani—a mother of two sentenced to stoning by an Iranian court for adultery—has rightfully drawn...
