by Sam Razi | Dec 4, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read, Politics
Huffington Post | December 3, 2010 By Jamsheed K. Choksy and Stephen A. Szrom Day after day in Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, and other cities, the Iranian government exhorts the greatness of the nation’s Shiite Islamic faith. It does so more cautiously in recent...
by Sam Razi | Dec 4, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Politics, World
Los Angeles Times | December 3, 2010 By Shaya Tayee Mohajer LOS ANGELES – A purported Iranian government agent who pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hitman to kill a broadcaster critical of the Iranian regime is a fugitive from justice after missing a Los Angeles...
by Sam Razi | Nov 14, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics
Rooz Online | November 13, 2010 by Nima Farahabadi For the first time ever, one of the better known websites of the principlists (ideologues who claim to follow ayatollah Khomeini’s legacy) revealed “secret contingency provisions” of the leader of the Islamic republic...
by Sam Razi | Nov 13, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General
The New York Times | November 14, 2010 A gathering of the Tehran Café Racers at the Azadi racetrack in Tehran. Aside from a few minor details — Persian lettering on the license plates and on the cans of Coke sipped over lunch — it could have taken place at any number...
by Sam Razi | Nov 13, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
EA WorldView | November 13, 2010 by Dr. Scott Lucus Three more prominent defence attorneys have been detained in Iran. At 4 a.m. local time, Sara Sabaghian, Maryam Kianarsi, and Maryam Karbasi were arrested by security officers at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini...
by Sam Razi | Nov 13, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics
RFE/RL | November 13, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari One of the casualties of the 2009 Iranian presidential election was the seriously damaged legitimacy of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, resulting from his endorsement of the vote amid allegations of...
