Putting an end to local controversy over friendship with the State of Israel, one of Iran's vice presidents Esfandiar Rahim Mashai retracted remarks he made in mid July that Iranians were «friends» even with...
As the run for next year presidential elections starts, conservative and reformist wishful candidates criticize President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Their comments focus on his weakest govermental performance- the economy-...
The Iranian rhetoric is attaining a new level of paroxysm, ..."Enemies of Iran should know that they would face Iranians' iron fist in case of making any mistake against the country,' Revolutionary Guard's Deputy...
" A MAJOR Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported today."One of the economic entities in the south of the country has asked its single employees to start creating a family," the...
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 barred...
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"Iran reformists says consersatives worried Ahmadinejad policies
TEHRAN, July 10 (AFP) Jul 10, 2007
A leading reformist party said on Tuesday that Iran's ruling conservatives were worried over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's handling of the country's nuclear programme and the...
The extreme fundamentalism of Iranian society is becoming ever more apparent and, through vehicles such as blogs and YouTube, ever more public. The most recent case of an Iranian official violating Sharia law sparked...
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Religious fundamentalists, traditionally the least cool-looking people in town, hate it when others don't look, dress and behave like they do. Case in Point: Iran. Religious leaders have forbidden barbers to give...
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"Khatami urges Iran to compromise on nuclear
TEHRAN, March 12 (AFP) Mar 12, 2007
Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami made a rare intervention to urge his hardline successor to compromise and prevent a crisis with world powers over its nuclear programme, media reported...