These beautiful photos by Amin Rahimi are from the sunflower farms in Takestan, Iran. Takestan is a city in and capital of Takestan County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census its population was 73,625, in 18,685 families.
Category: Sufi news
Exiled Journalist Describes Iranian Self-Censorship As ‘Walking Blindly Through A Minefield’
Vahid Pourostad, a well-known Iranian journalist who before being forced to leave Iran about a year ago served on the editorial boards of a number of reformist newspapers.
Film body urges authorities to observe rights of filmmakers
Iran’s House of Cinema is calling on authorities to observe the rights of filmmakers and other members of the film community that have been arrested in the past week.
Baluchi Teenager Exiled & Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi has been sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. He is a Baluchi teenager arrested by Iranian Intelligence Agency in order to force his oldest brother to return to Iran.
Hamidreza Moradi Sarvestani and Farshad Maroufi Held Incommunicado
There are no reports on the condition of Gonabadi dervish Hamidreza Moradi Sarvestani and Kurdish environmental activist Farshad Maroufi.
Unawareness from situation of Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani, one of Majzooban Noor Website’s managers
Campaign to Honor the Rights of Dervishes : likewise there is not any information about Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani whose detention by the security forces has been lasted from Shahrivar 13, 1390 (September 4, 2011), and his situation is unknown.
UN Experts Condemn Hanging of 17-year-old Alireza Molla Soltani
GENEVA – Four United Nations experts* condemned the public execution by hanging of 17-year-old Alireza Molla Soltani, which was carried out yesterday, and the ongoing practice by the Iranian authorities, of executing people charged with drug-related offenses.
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Disbarment Court Session Cancelled
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, said that the second court session reviewing her disbarment was cancelled.
Unawareness from Majzooban Noor Website’s managers and staffs’ state is going on
Campaign to Honor the Rights of Dervishes : Unawareness from Majzooban Noor Website’s managers and staffs’ state is going on
UN human rights experts condemn executions in Iran
Ahmed Shaheed and three other special United Nation Rapporteurs have condemned the hanging of 17-year-old Alireza Mollasoltani and called for a halt to executions in Iran.