Sunday, May 19th, 2013
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.
The authorities deny such claims, but have not explained exactly why service has become slower ... Continue reading »
"While the price [of activism] wasn't that high then, they were escalating step by step," he says. "The first such toll is like an ugly stigma. When you break through that, then it becomes normal. For example, the summons by the disciplinary committee that year indeed carried a high price, but afterward, even expulsion, which also happened to me, w ... Continue reading »
IHR strongly condemns the execution of Koroush Ahmadi and Mohamad Heydari and holds Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader responsible for these executions. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR urged the international community to condemn executions in Iran. Amiry -Moghaddam said: "Today’s executions are a part of the Iranian regime’s ... Continue reading »
Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.
The authorities deny such claims, but have not explained exactly why service has become slower.
Businesses, banks and even state ... Continue reading »
It is a generally assumed that the Shah’s downfall led to the severing of ties between Israel and Iran, which up until that point resembled a love story. However, both Iran’s intellectual elite and the rest of the nation drastically changed their views of the Jewish State after 1967. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his wife, Queen Far ... Continue reading »
Iran hangs two men for spying for Israel and US Iran has hanged two men convicted of spying for Israel and the US, the authorities there have said.
Mohammad Heydari was found guilty of passing intelligence on "security issues and national secrets" to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for cash.
Kourosh Ahmadi was convicted of providing intellige ... Continue reading »
Ken O'Keefe in Tehran - "Iran is not the threat, we are." - American Patriots Rise ... Continue reading »
The presidential candidates for a four-year presidency in Iran will be soon vetted for qualifications by the Guardian Council. The body is charged, among others, to approve the mandatory of any candidate for any election based on loyalty to the regime and its cult of Islam. Like all totalitarian regimes, under the Islamic regime, laws are able to v ... Continue reading »
Since the last election in 2009, the voting-age population (18 years and older) has grown from 47 million to 55 million. (Age structure and employment data are calculations from the 2% sample of the 2011 census provided by the Statistical Center of Iran and are adjusted to reflect the 2013 age structure.) It has also aged slightly: The median voter ... Continue reading »
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