The Iranian state news agency IRNA reports that the country’s leading reformist newspaper has been banned for two months for “spreading lies.”
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IAEA Backs World Powers’ Resolution To Intensify Pressure On Iran Over Nuclear Program
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has backed a resolution drawn up by the world’s major powers to increase pressure on Iran over its secretive nuclear program.
Iran’s Human Rights Case Might End Up at the Security Council, Says the UN Special Rapporteur
Omid MemarianAward Winning JournalistAhmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, believes that if Tehran does not cooperate with his mandate and continues on the current path in ignoring international mechanisms to monitor the worsening human rights crisis in the country, Iran’s human rights case might eventually end […]
Iran fires up voters with partial lifting of water pipe ban
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government reverses unpopular ban on smoking in tea houses – but only for men.
World Powers Voice ‘Increasing Concern’ About Iran In IAEA Draft Resolution
The major world powers have agreed on a joint resolution aimed at intensifying pressure on Iran to address “deep and increasing concern” about its controversial nuclear program.
Iran decries Saudi resolution
Iran has sounded an alarm about Saudi Arabia’s draft resolution to the UN, delivered in response U.S. allegations of a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. — a plot that Iran calls a U.S. fabrication meant to falsely accuse the Islamic Republic.
Iran bans skiing for women without legal chaperons
Women have been banned from entering skiing ramps alone. This is a new order from State Security Forces which even includes women over 18.
Ardeshir Amir Arjomand Requests Immediate Attention by UN Special Rapporteur to the Recent Human Rights Violations in Iran
November 9th, 2011 [Kaleme] In a letter addressed to Mr. Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Dr. Ardeshir Amir Arjomand, spokesperson for the Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope, asks the Special Rapporteur for his immediate pursuit of and attention to the most recent human rights violations in […]
Opposition activists warn about strike against Iran
‘Democracy doesn’t come from gun barrel’ GVF — More than 120 Iranian authors, activists and journalists have issued a strong warning about the ramifications of a possible military strike against Iran.
Photos: 5000-years-old Jiroft artifacts – Part II
Photos by Hamid Sadeghi, Mehr News AgencyJiroft Culture – “Jiroft culture” has been postulated as an early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium BC) archaeological culture, located in what is now Iran’s Sistan and Kerman Provinces.