A total of 17 people, including newspaper editors, writers, and lawyers, face trial in a case that has dealt a heavy blow to the reform movement. The Berlin conference, on April 7-8, was organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation to assess Iran's parliamentary elections, which saw the ...
UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar and Director Kasra Aarabi write: "Iran’s “election circus” — as it is known in Farsi — is in full swing with a total of six candidates being approved by the… Who Are Iran's Presidential Candidates?
TEHRAN, (Reuter) - A government-owned newspaper in Iran on Wednesday sharply criticised rising prices and called on President Mohammad Khatami's administration to start building the foundation for a decent standard of living. The existing system of goods distribution was obsolete, Iran Daily said ...
TEHRAN (Reuters)- A hardline Iranian newspaper on Saturday criticised a tough prison sentence and other punishments imposed by the conservative-led judiciary on Tehran's mayor after he was found guilty on corruption charges. The daily Jomhuri Eslami took the unexpected position in an editorial whic...
goal. In some instances Iran's 4-4-2 formation looked more like a 8-0-2 formation (if there even is such formation), whereby eight players stood in defense leaving only two players (Azizi and Daei) alone in front. Iran's popular sports newspaper Abrar Varzeshi, has written extensively...
Part of an ancient city that dates back to the Parthian period, between 400 and 200 BC, the 20-hectare citadel, known as the Arg-e Barn in Farsi, was the world's largest mud-brick construction. It was built as a staging post along the trade routes from India and Pakistan to the Pe...
"In Iran's Islamic government the media have the freedom to express all Iran's realities and events, and people have the freedom to form any form of political parties and gatherings that they like." Interview with the Italian newspaper Paese Sera, Paris, November 2, 1978 ...
"The Kurdistan Regional Government is studying the proposals by Turkey and the western states over the scheduled vote," Nazim Dabbagh told Iran's Farsi language Etemad newspaper. "In case there are required guarantees for the rights of the Kurds, they will drop the independence referendum for th...
It is true that when I read in the newspaper some years ago that she was staging a comeback in the States, I paused for a moment and said out loud to nobody but myself, “Well, that’s interesting.” It was a reaction not unlike the one I had a few months ago when learning ...
“Colonel Farrokhzad was a learned man and a voracious reader who also wrote poetry and newspaper articles. He left behind an unpublished book of poems. He also took an active role in raising his children.” Ghoghasian said. “Touran Vaziritabar was a homemaker, looking after a large famil...