"Equality Forum this month called on Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to encourage British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to halt the deportation of gay Iranian refugees...
UPDATE: 11:38PM ESTReuters is now reporting that 9 people have been killed in the bomb blast earlier today, and about 105 people have been wounded."A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorLeave it to a Persian women's persistance to change the middle eastern world.Iran once the modicum of modesty, with roaming bands of religious nutjobs pulling women off...
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Holland? Flowers!
by Guy La Roche
I am loathe to add to the Wilders-hype, created both by him and the Dutch government, but the following video by Thomas Erdbrink is simply too amazing to let slip by AFOE’s international radar.
Thomas Erdbrink is a...
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"A female suicide bomber has attacked Shia worshippers in the city of Karbala, killing 49 of them on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.
An Iraqi police officer and a witness said that Monday's bombing was carried out by a...
On March 16, 1988 the largest scale chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in modern times occured in a town called Halabja, which is located about 150 miles northeast of Baghdad, and between 8...
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UPDATE: 6:36PM EST - March 15
Well, it's no big surprise that the Conservatives have kept control of the Iranian government, but here is up the update...
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian election results on...
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Iranians will all be heading to the polls today to vote for a new government, but many are seeing the event as a contest between competing conservative factions, after the majority of reformist candidates were...
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"Until President Ahmadinejad's name is mentioned Mokhtar, an Iranian labourer, stands listlessly with his friends on a street corner in a blue-collar district of south Tehran. Suddenly he grows animated. He voted enthusiastically for Mr Ahmadinejad in 2005 because he had...
""It is not a cold-war era when there are certain blocks," President Yudhoyono told his country`s newsmen in a press conference at Saad Abad Palace here overnight.On the occasion, Yudhoyono noted that Indonesia as...
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"Teheran (ANTARA News) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hoped that Indonesia`s attitude against the current in the voting on the UN additional sanction on Iran in the UN Security Council would change the...
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OPINION PIECE:How come we've never heard of this guy who strongly resembles Jerry Springer? (See photos.)I suppose the natural answer would be because investigations have been ongoing and those involved...
"In the summer of 1995, an Iranian man named Majid Yourdkhani allowed a friend to photocopy pages from “The Satanic Verses,” the Salman Rushdie novel, at the small print shop that he owned in Tehran."
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"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono left Jakarta on Monday to make a 10-day overseas tour of four countries - Iran, Senegal, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The President`s 82-member entourage included Foreign Affairs Minister Hassan Wirajuda, Minister/State...
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A dangerous World.
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Do Ehud Barak, Meir Dagan and Amos Yadlin need to be worried? In the Iranian capital of Tehran, it was reported that an unprecedented ceremony took place on Sunday in which a price was put...
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