by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Persian Umpire) | March 21, 2010 The Iranian regime’s hostility toward Chaharshanbe Souri is nothing new. For years after the revolution, as we were growing up in Tehran, we held the celebrations in fear. As we set our tumbleweeds on fire in our street and threw some...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Business, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Washington Post) | March 21, 2010 By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service It might not seem that remarkable for a ragtag group of friends to come up with a computer game in a dusty back office. But the Iranian engineering students, programmers and fantasy...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Mianeh) | March 19, 2010 Jafar Farshian They’re at the heart of resistance to the regime – but that doesn’t stop them from having fun. After a brief period of retreat from the outside world following the months of post- election protests, many middle-class...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General
(BBC) | March 21, 2010 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has used a televised Iranian New Year address to accuse the US of plotting against the country. He said the US government could not “talk about peace and friendship and at the same time...
by Sam Razi | Mar 20, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Science
(The New York Times) | March 18, 2010 Nazila Fathi At a time when the Obama administration is pressing for harsher sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, democracy advocates in Iran have been celebrating the recent decision by the United States to lift...
by Sam Razi | Mar 19, 2010 | From the Web, General
(France 24) | March 19, 2010 AFP – EU nations are determined to take action to end Iran’s “unacceptable” jamming of satellite broadcasting and Internet censorship, according to a text agreed by European ambassadors in Brussels. “The EU...
