Iran security chief

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Syria's Assad meets with Iran security chief

Haaretz.com
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27-Dec-2010
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Iran's ambassador summoned

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Germany summons Iran's ambassador over journalists

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27-Dec-2010
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IRAN

Poor & Proud

Poor & Proud

Photo essay: Iran & Iranians

by Behzad
27-Dec-2010 (11 comments)

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Fred
27-Dec-2010 (one comment)
در آستانۀ سالروز حماسه >>>
Darius Kadivar
27-Dec-2010
Dame Judi Dench has been named the greatest stage actor of all time in a poll compiled by an industry newspaper. Now 76, Dench began her career in 1957 playing Ophelia atthe Old Vic Company in Liverpool. >>>

Ancient Isreal redefining Archeaology timeline

Escape

Armageddon Fortress May Hold Keys to History

AOL / Matthew Kalman
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27-Dec-2010
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Riding is back in Iraq

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Iraq’s Wild Ones Are Mainly Looking to Impress

NYT / Yasir Ghazi
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Multiple Personality Disorder
27-Dec-2010 (8 comments)

Tonight is upon me, and that beautiful spell >>>

PANAHI

Islamic McCarthyism

Harsh sentencing of a world-renowned director prompts international protests

27-Dec-2010 (7 comments)
When world-renowned filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison earlier this week, the verdict reverberated both inside and outside Iran. Not only did authorities in Tehran hand down an exceptionally harsh sentence, they also decreed that the 50-year-old Panahi will be banned from filmmaking, screenwriting and traveling abroad for the next 20 years. According to his relatives, Panahi has also been banned from talking to the media. Along with Panahi, Muhammad Rasoulof, another filmmaker involved with Panahi’s movie, was also sentenced to six years in prison>>>

ARABS-IRAN

Leaky Coverage

How Arab states have reacted to Wikileaks

27-Dec-2010 (5 comments)
Recent WikiLeaks revelations about the discrepancy between the public and private views on Iran voiced by Gulf Arab leaders have been widely covered by the pan-Arab media without provoking policy shifts or internal tensions in Gulf Arab states. U.S. officials should therefore be encouraged in their policy of pressing for a robust regional coalition to curb Iran's ambitions. Since the WikiLeaks story broke in late November, various Gulf Arab official spokesmen have generally refused to confirm their privately hostile comments about Iran -- but have not disavowed them, either>>>

NGO

Declaration of Independence

Civil society and counter-terrorism

27-Dec-2010 (one comment)
Where a vibrant civil society exists, groups think for themselves and take independent positions, often positions critical of government policy. They do not unquestioningly toe the government line and they cannot be bought off. In my view, any discussion of how government, multilateral institutions, and other actors might seek to work and collaborate with civil society organizations should keep this quality of independence in mind>>>

TANZ

صورت جلسه کابینه نجات ملی‌

نمایشی در یک پرده

27-Dec-2010 (15 comments)
ساعت ۱۲:۳۰ - منیژه خانم با موبایلش در تماس به شماره اختر الملک، حاضر در جلسه. "الو، نه هنوز این طرف بزرگراه هستم. آره دیگه، اون آژانسی جونممرگ شده اینور پیادم کرد! نه عزیز، میترسم رد شم. این ماشین‌ها و موتورا ول کن نیستن که. میتونی‌ فری جون رو بفرستی‌ با ماشین سوارم کنه؟">>>
Fred
27-Dec-2010 (2 comments)
Australia, don’t even think about it!>>>
KamRan Farzan
27-Dec-2010 (2 comments)
نه باید پووارو کار آگاه فرانسوی بود. نه باید شرلوک هلمز و یا خانم مارپل و یا همان مرحوم آگاتا کریستی بود>>>