Iran = Growing Risk

SofiaM

With Sanctions Iran's International Trade has become Risky

Trend
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14-May-2012
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Sanctions Purpose Unknown, but Fulfilled

SofiaM

Sanctions are Only a Stop-Gap

Foreign Affairs / Patrick Clawson
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14-May-2012
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Tapesh
14-May-2012 (one comment)

برنامه طنز هفتگی برای نسل جوان ایرانی

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Tapesh
14-May-2012 (4 comments)
hosting Eurovision >>>

BAHAIS

Education At All Costs

Despite uncertain future and the regime's ever-tightening noose

14-May-2012 (6 comments)
The rule barring 300,000 or so Bahais from Iran's colleges and universities remains in place. It is enforced with particular vigor by the hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even before Pohl's exposé, the Bahai community had begun seeking ways to educate its youth. Those efforts culminated in the establishment of a secret distance-education college operated by hundreds of volunteers inside and outside Iran>>>

Rallying round Mahmoud Shokrayeh

Darius Kadivar

Widespread support for Iran cartoonist sentenced to lashings

bbc / Arash Ahmadi
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14-May-2012
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LIBERAL

Bravo, Obama!

Why am I so pleased by the earthquake that has just shaken the present landscape?

14-May-2012 (2 comments)
Let’s hear it for the President. Bravo! Bravo is also Italian for brave and it takes a brave man and a strong heart to come out in favor of gay marriage in a country dominated by the raucous—and nefarious—Koch Brothers, Rush whats-his-name and assorted religious freaks. Whether Biden had been encouraged a few days ago or not to “force” Obama into making his own position clear is open to speculation but the result is what counts here>>>

Human Rights

Ali Najafi

The Epic, Secret Struggle to Educate Iran's Bahais

The Chronicle of Higher Education / Sohrab Ahmari
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14-May-2012
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Darius Kadivar
14-May-2012 (8 comments)
While French media claims new President Francois Hollande does not approve visit of former socialist prime minister Michel Rocard to Tehran>>>
Fred
14-May-2012 (one comment)
تصویر و اصل فایل اهانت آمیز >>>
maghshoosh
14-May-2012 (7 comments)
Pahlavis institutionalized religion, says Ganji. >>>

Airtight sanctions

Fred

Iran, unable to sell oil, stores it on tankers

Washington Post / Joby Warrick and Steven Mufson
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14-May-2012
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rashid
14-May-2012 (one comment)
مشخص شد که حزب حاکم در فرانسه به زیر کشیده شد و احزاب حاکم یونان هم با بد اقبالی عمومی روبرو شدند.>>>

FUTURE

When Oil Runs Out

Middle East in 10-20 Years

14-May-2012 (one comment)
For most people, the Middle East (ME) is synonymous with oil. Economies of most major ME countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and the U.A.E. are based on oil. Today over a third (38% to be exact) of all oil produced worldwide is used for transportation; automobiles and trucks. What would happen if people and businesses stopped using gasoline for their cars and diesel for their trucks?>>>
Fred
14-May-2012
تولب شده و حالت دفاعی میگیرند >>>