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Iran's Faulty Toolbox

Every tool at Iran's disposal comes with serious limitations

07-Oct-2010 (21 comments)
Iran's arsenal is familiar by now. It includes the "oil weapon," armies, proxies, and ultimately nuclear weapons. Each tool of leverage is seriously flawed but that does not prevent alarmists from overstating their effect. Upon further review, Tehran's arsenal is generally weak. Use of the "oil weapon" is unrealistic. According to the US Government Accountability Office, "between 50 and 76 percent of the Iranian government's revenues in recent years" came from oil exports>>>

Free Nasrin Sotoudeh

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

Shirin Ebadi’s International Appeal to Help Nasrin Sotoudeh in Prison

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
07-Oct-2010
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Tapesh
07-Oct-2010 (one comment)
A Video >>>
Sahameddin Ghiassi
07-Oct-2010
مشگل دوم این است که استعمار مکتب های دینی و برداشت های مختلف از دین را علیه هم آرایش میدهد و آنان را برای کسب منافع خویش به >>>

Guess which 10 countries Police Chief means

We will know soon enough

'Get Ali Khamenei's help to release the hikers'

Shifteh Ansari

U.S. hikers and Iran's maze

Los Angeles Times / Haleh Esfandiari
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07-Oct-2010
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Darius Kadivar
07-Oct-2010 (one comment)
Best Selling Author and Academic Azar Nafisi's latest book "Things I Have Been Silent About" has been translated in Portuguese. She strongly criticized Brazilian President Lula's friendly stance towards Ahmadinejad. >>>

Just doing the paperwork now

Shifteh Ansari

Russia Cancels $800 Million Iran Air-Defense Contract

Bloomberg Business Week / Lyubov Pronina
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07-Oct-2010
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Not as easy to intimidate as prisoners, eh?

Shifteh Ansari

Iran's judiciary warns gold merchants over strike

Associated Press
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07-Oct-2010
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Mahmoud calls for closer ties betwn Iran & Vatican

Shifteh Ansari

Iran president thanks Pope for condemning Koran threat

BBC
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07-Oct-2010 (one comment)
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Iran says we have no political prisoners!!!!

Darius Kadivar
07-Oct-2010 (3 comments)
Not Long ago Iranian-American academic and IRI Apologist, Kaveh Afrasiabi, complained of US police brutality against him while in custody in Cambridge. Lately his loss hair and pale skin contrast sharply with his previous appearance >>>
Fred
07-Oct-2010 (60 comments)
Fist raised in defiance and shouting>>>