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· October, 2006

Stories about Iran from October, 2006

Hugo Chavez in the Iranian left-wing blogs

Hugo Chavez, the leftist Venezuelan President, has developed a very friendly relationship with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian Islamist President. Iran even awarded the Venezuelan President its highest state medal for...

Written by Fred Petrossian
31 October 2006

Iran: UN Resolution Targets Iranian Students

Iranian Truth discusses the current draft Security Council resolution on Iran which states, in part: “all States shall prohibit specialized teaching or training of Iranian nationals, within their territories or...

Written by Fred Petrossian
30 October 2006

Iran: The end of Ramadan

Angus McDowall is a correspondent for Middle East Economic Digest and reporter for The Independent in Iran and he is blogging. About the end of Ramadan he says for a...

Written by Fred Petrossian
25 October 2006

Ahmadinejad: Let the Population Grow

Kamangir reports about Iranian President's speech about the population growth. President Ahmadinejad said they say two children are enough [a famous slogan for controlling Iran’s population growth in the last...

Written by Fred Petrossian
24 October 2006

Iran:Photos & Mousavi Khoini

Kosoof, a leading photo blogger has published photos of Mousavi Khoini's, human right activist and politician, after being released from jail. According to the blogger, Mousavi Khoini was arrested on...

Written by Fred Petrossian
24 October 2006

Iran:Government Bans Fast Internet

According to media, service providers have been told to restrict online speeds to 128 kilobytes a second and been forbidden from offering fast broadband packages. A teenage blogger, Kourosh Ziabary...

Written by Fred Petrossian
19 October 2006

Iran: Inflation

Abbas Abdi, blogger and reformist politician says inflation is the most important threat to the Iranian present political structure [Fa]. He adds soon or late the inflation giant will wakeup.

Written by Fred Petrossian
12 October 2006

Iran: Photos and Women

Zannevesht has published a link to National Geographic prize winner's, Newsha Tavakolian, photos. Newsha Tavakolian has been selected as a 2006 All Roads Photography Program award-winner for her photo essay...

Written by Fred Petrossian
11 October 2006

Kurdistance

I choose to begin this week's article with a disclaimer which is spawned in response to comments I received on last week's edition of Kurdistance: the contents of my articles...

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley
11 October 2006

Iran: New Research about Iranian Blogs

In Iranian Truth, Celine Petrossian shares her research about Iranian blogs. Researcher says without a doubt, blogs have allowed Iranians to connect with their homeland and cultural traditions and freely...

Written by Fred Petrossian
10 October 2006

Iran:Taxi conversation in Tehran

View from Iran reports about an interesting conversation between one American,Iranian taxi driver and the other Iranian passengers. The blogger writes“ the driver asks they think we are terrorists, right?”...

Written by Fred Petrossian
4 October 2006

Kurdistance

Welcome back to this week's edition of Kurdistance! Hiwa gives us a wonderful link to a amatur video about the Kurdish community in Leeds, UK that is featured on the...

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley
4 October 2006

Iran:looking at Ahmadinejad's new notes

Ahmadinejad,Iranian president says in his blog that today diplomacy has been turned to distrust and unfrankness. Rarely can we see two authorities or officials from two different states sit together...

Written by Fred Petrossian
3 October 2006

Iran:Condom Israel

View from Iran has published an image from Iranian TV where you can read Arab States urge UN to condom Israel. Click here to see the photo and do not...

Written by Fred Petrossian
2 October 2006

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