by Sam Razi | Apr 7, 2010 | Business, Featured, From the Web, General
(Reuters) | April 6, 2010 Robin Pomeroy and Hashem Kalantari (Reuters) – The idea of international sanctions on Iranian oil exports is a joke, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday, adding Iran would not abandon its disputed nuclear work despite mounting...
by Sam Razi | Apr 7, 2010 | From the Web, General
(Pedestrian) | April 6, 2010 Three professors have been removed from their positions in the past 24 hours: Morteza Mardiha, a professor of philosophy at Alameh Tabatabie University. And Alireza Beheshti and Ghorban Behzadian-Nejad have also been suspended from their...
by Sam Razi | Apr 6, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General
(Pedestrian) | April 5, 2010 Rafsanjani Meets with Reformist MPs The delegates of the coalition of reformist parties – the Imam Khomeini Line – met with Mir Hossein Mousavi and Rafsanjani today. The Rafsanjani visit is translated below (crossposted at Khordaad88). The...
by Sam Razi | Apr 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General
(RFE/RL) | April 5, 2010 Iranian Justice Minister Morteza Baktiari announced on April 3 that a special court will be established for Iranians living outside the country. He didn’t give the reason for the move, but said that the head of Tehran’s Justice Department and...
by Sam Razi | Apr 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights
(International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran) | April 5, 2010 Journalist Issa Saharkhiz’s health has taken a turn for the worse after going on a hunger strike in March. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, his son, Mehdi...
by Sam Razi | Apr 5, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights
(Radio Zamaaneh) | April 4, 2010 Iranian Shiite leader, Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani condemned the continued incarceration of Iranian political and social activists as a strategy to “hold on to power.” In a meeting with families of recent detainees, the reformist cleric...
