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"Qum" Buy Ya

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

While the technical revelations regarding the Qum nuclear enrichment facility filter out as the IAEA prepares its final report to the U.N., the U.S. is at a crossroads regarding Iran's nuclear program.

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Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

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3 Journalists Freed By Iran

AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Irna, Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Iran Election, Farhad Pouladi, Afp, Protests, #Iranelection, Tehran, Iran, Iranelection, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mir Hussein Moussavi, Agence France Presse, Protesters, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposi...

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Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Supreme Leader, Assembly of Experts, Mahmoud Vahidnia, Sharif Technical University, Iran, Tehran, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Election, Triumph, World News

BEIRUT — An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man ...

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Iran Protests: Is Obama Staying on Ahmadinejad's Good Side?

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Us Embassy, Shah of Iran, Afghanistan, Shiraz, Iranian, President Obama, Plainclothesed Officers, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Post-Election Protests, Barack Obama, Iran Protests, United States, Tehran, Iraq, Iranian Security Forces, Iran Hostage, World News

The Iranians are still coming. In droves. Despite the intermittent media coverage in the United States, Iranians have not yet stopped protesting the...

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Remembering The Iran Hostage Crisis: 444 Days In The Dark

gq.com | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Revolution, Iran, Tehran, Iran Revolution Anniversary, Us Embassy Tehran, Iran-Hostage-Crisis, Iran-Revolution, World News

They were geeks with guns - hundreds of Muslim medical and engineering students who stormed the U.S. embassy in the heart of Tehran on November 4, 197...

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Tehran: Embassy Occupation Anniversary May See Fresh Protests

TIME | Robin Wright | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran-Iran, Iran Election, Iran Protests, US Embassy, Iran, Tehran, Demonstrations in Tehran, World News

A new showdown looms in Iran this week, as the regime and its intrepid opposition gear up for what may be their biggest street confrontation since the...

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UN Nuclear Inspectors In Iran To Visit Site

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: France, Russia, Iran, Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons, Qom, Tehran, Nuclear Proliferation, Un, Iaea, Nukes, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection tha...

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Iran Trying to Install Microsoft Windows 7

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Iran, Windows Vista, Andy Borowitz, Windows 7, Microsoft, Tehran, Comedy News

Spy-satellite photos reveal a shipment of Windows 7 software, as well as a dozen IT professionals from Redmond, Washington, arriving early Saturday morning in Tehran.

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New On The NYR Blog

The New York Review of Books | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Censorship, Political Prisoners, Blogs, Afghani Elections, New York Review of Books, Karzai, Iran, Middle East, New York Review, Tehran, Afghanistan Election, Afghanistan, New York Review Blog, Books, Books News

The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, wh...

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Maziar Bahari Tells Of Ordeal In Tehran Prison

newsweek.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Maziar Bahari Arrested, Maziar Bahari Released, Evin Prison, Iran Election, Iran Prisoners, Iran, Tehran, Foreign Affairs, Maziar Bahari, World News

For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari di...

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Obama in the Thicket of "Afghaniranistan"

William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Cia, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Mi-6, Nobel Peace Prize, Iaea, Mossad, Moscow, Tehran, Israel, Iraq, Vienna, Special Forces, Taliban, Sayeret, Al Qaeda, Revolutionary Guard, Iranian Nuclear Program, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Soviet Union, Jihadism, Post-Soviet Space, Somalia, Cairo Address, John Kerry, World News

Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.

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Iran Suicide Bombing Could Be Bad For Obama

TIME | Andrew Lee Butters | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Uk, Britain, Revolutionary Guard, Baluchistan, Nuke, Nuclear Program, Iran Election, Pakistan, Baluchi, Iran, Obama, Diplomacy, Iran Suicide Bombing, Negotiations, White House, Nuclear Weapons, Analysis, Assassination, #Iranelection, Tehran, Iran Bombing, Jundullah, Home News

Sunday's suicide terrorism attack that killed at least five commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps could have an impact far beyond the Islami...

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MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Mass Trial, Election Fraud, Vote Rigging, Iran Election, Iran, Media, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Newsweek, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Velvet Revolution, Saeed Hajjarian, Bahari Released, Bail, Maziar Bahari, Tehran, Iraq, Bahari, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...

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A Soft Power Opportunity for Iran

Kevin Sullivan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Hezbollah Lebanon, Lebanon, Yemen, Iranian Revolution, Quds Force, Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard-Quds, Houthis, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Qods Force, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia, Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tehran, Israel, Saada, Sana'A, Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Quds), Al-Qaeda, Irgc, Al Qaeda, Smart Power, Islamic Republic of Iran, Middle East, Soft Power, Mideast, Shia, Shi'a Militias, Shiites, World News

In the neighboring country of Yemen, a very real opportunity to make good on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's promise of friendship is rapidly emerging for Iran.

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Fatally Flawed UN Goldstone Report Could Come Back to Bite America For Fighting Terrorists

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza, President Obama, Judge Richard GoldstoneUnited Nations, Tehran, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, UN General Assembly, Israel, Libya, UN Security Council, Hezbollah, Human Shields, Terrorism, World News, Politics News

Goldstone's report, in effect, equates Israel with Nazis and other tyrants of history by accusing the Jewish State of deliberately targeting civilians.

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Dear President Lula, Again

David Harris | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Brazil, New Delhi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, Atomic Energy Agency, Tehran, United Nations, Obama Visit to Brazil, Israel, South America, Two-State Solution, Barack Obama, Iran Negotiations, Juala Lumpur, World News

Why would Brazil, today a towering bastion of democratic values, seek closer ties with Iran, its polar opposite?

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Iran Sentences 3 To Death In Post-Election Mass Opposition Trial

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — Three defendants in Iran's mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country's postelection unrest have been senten...

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True Confessions of a Gourmand

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Iran, Worldwide Web, Cooking, Family, Children, Tehran, Food, Gourmet, Parenting, Multicultural, Shakespeare, Lnternet, Google, Style News

Gourmet is the latest glossy to fall victim to declines in readership and ad revenue. I can't explain this. I can only explain why Gourmet's circulation stood at 977,000 and not 977,001.

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Fight Fair, You Menacing Mullahs!

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Tehran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Qum, World News

Tehran's mullahs actually seem to be cooperating with UN inspections, pulling the rug out from under the feet of the war party in Washington and its right-wing allies abroad.

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IAEA Report: Iran Has Data To Make Nuclear Bomb

New York Times | William J. Broad And David E. Sanger | Posted 10.03.2009 | World

Read More: ElBaradei, Nuke, Negotiations, Pakistan, Un Report, Sanctions, Obama, Iran, IAEA Report, Nuclear Weapons, Tehran, Diplomacy, Nuclear Bomb, Un, Iaea, World News

Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired "sufficient information to ...

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Daily Telegraph: Ahmadinejad Has Jewish Roots

The Daily Telegraph | By Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat | Posted 10.03.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad, Ethnicity, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denial, Tehran, #Iranelection, Holocaust, Sabourjian, Family Name, Jewish, World News

A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. ...

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Iran Admits Nuclear Site Near Base In Case Of Attack

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear Site, Iran Sanctions, Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Tehran, Iran Nuclear, Ali Akbar Salehi, Un Security Council Iran, UN Security Council, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — In an unusually frank disclosure, Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday the country's new uranium enrichment site was built for maxim...

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Iran's Nuclear Program: Crunch Time

David Harris | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Iran has been caught in yet another act of deception. Faced with the prospect of being outed by the U.S., Tehran's leaders informed the IAEA of a second uranium enrichment facility.

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U.S. Seeking Tougher Sanctions Against Iran

The New York Times | MARK LANDLER | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: Khamenei, Qom, Trade, Sanctions, Obama, Oil, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad, Embargo, Robert Gates, Nuclear Weapons, U.N., Tehran, Israel, Un, Iaea, World News

The Obama administration is scrambling to assemble a package of harsher economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program that could include a ...

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