When I came back from my trip to Iran in October 2009, I was not sure if I could go there for Iranian New year

In his article “An American in Tehran”, Matthew Cassel would have us believe that Iran’s infamous Basij paramilitary force has gotten a bad rap. He

In the evening that I arrived in Kolkata, the musician A.R. Rahman was giving a concert in the city’s Salt Lake Stadium. “He is our

Patch of Paradise A green thumb, a generous heart, a playful soul Creativity, patience and panache Fertile earth, California sun and water aplenty Flower seeds,

A green thumb, a generous heart, a playful soul Creativity, patience and panache Fertile ground, California sun and water aplenty Seeds, greens and trees All meet on

Iranian cleric and opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi has reportedly said in an interview with the German weekly “Der Spiegel” (to be published on April 26)

The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has forbidden using foreign names for national film productions. The Deputy Culture Minister for Cinematic Affairs Javad

Four months after his arrest, Majid Tavakoly, an Amir Kabir University student, continues to be deprived of access to his lawyers. Three months after the

Belgium’s King Albert has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme’s government after the collapse of the ruling coalition, officials say. A statement from

The memoir of former US President George W Bush will be a candid account of his “flaws and mistakes” as well as his achievements, his

In public testimony over the past three years, senior U.S. intelligence officials have avoided contradicting the language used in the 2007 NIE, despite privately asserting

Don’t click on link. Here’s the entire piece: آدرس غلط! (گفت و شنود) گفت: چه خبر؟! گفتم: كاشف به عمل آمده كه جعفر پناهي، كارگردان

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no

Actually I wasn’t planning on writing any blogs, but there are a couple of conversations on two of Shazde’s threads which seem to have become

asbtract: On the flight from Mumbai to Kolkata the CEO of the airline, Kingfisher, personally welcomed us to the cabin. He looked positively swashbuckling on

وجه عمده مبارزات امروز مردم رسیدن به آزادی و دموکراسی است و جبهه ملی سازمانی است که 60 سال برای آزادی و دموکراسی در ایران

That IRR, the Islamist Rapist Republic is in a real jam over its illegal weaponized nuke and whole lot of other nasty stuff it has

Mohammad Reza Alipour, Deputy Tehran Police Commander said that the police intend to organize nongovernmental organizations in a “centralized” way, a signal to activists that

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran , Behrouz Alavi, a student activist and member of the Tarbiat Moallem University

رسیدگی به “برخی بیماری‌های مشترک در زندانیان سیاسی همچون حملات و بیماری‌های قلبی و ابتلا یا تشدید بیماری‌های عصبی- عضلانی” یکی از موضوعات “تحقیق و

در حالی که وزیر خارجه امارات متحده عربی روز دوشنبه بار دیگر از ایران خواسته است به «اشغال» سه جزیره در خلیج فارس پایان دهد،

به گزارش ایسنا، علی مطهری که در آستانه سالگرد صدور فرمان هشت ماده‌ای رهبری گفت‌وگو می‌کرد، در این ارتباط ادامه داد:« این موضوع بیشتر به

Last week’s partial leak of Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s January memo on Iran, and the later statements from Gates and Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy, reveal

(Reuters) – Iran is cutting red tape and easing ownership rules to encourage foreign investment in stocks and bonds, state television reported on Monday, as

Nazanin Afshin Jam has been Independantly struggling for Human Rights and Democracy over the years. She recently participated to a panel on Iran at the Canadian