Stories about Iran from November, 2005
Iran: Tehran's Metro
Zehne Abi, an Iran based blogger, says it is unbelievable thatRafsanjani's son position as General Manager (call it boss) of Tehran's metro has been confirmed. Zehne Abi writes everybody knows...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
New this week…. Kurdo from Kurdo's World was interviewed by The Kurdistani, a Kurdish news agency posting out of the United Kingdom. Kurdo's World is considered as the first Kurdish...
Iranian Blogs: Association of Moslem Bloggers, 20 million dollary Revloutionary Guard and Solidarity with Feminist Tribune
A new association for Iranian bloggers came into existence: Association of Moslem Bloggers ( Link in Persian). Before this new association, a few other ones have become active such as...
Iran: Save Heritage
Shahram Kholdi says the Centre for the Defence of Human Rights, led by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi , has taken legal action against the ministries of Oil...
Iran: Flight Plan
New Wave, an Iran based blogger, introduces newest films in US. He talks about Jodie Foster's, Flight Plan and 11th September influence on this movie: Insecurity in airports links to...
Iran: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Sooratak invites people to visit Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art where many western masterpieces are exposed. Blogger writes that this collection was bought more than 27 years ago and it...
Iran: Join WTO!
Golbang says Saudi Arabia has become a new member of World Trade Organization. Blogger asks when Iran will become a member. Among 191 United Nations members only 42 countries are...
Iran: Ahmadinejad's Ministers
Jamile Kadiver, a former deputy in Iranian parliament a London based blogger, writes: Ahmadinejad's choices for his Ministers are based on friendship neighbourhood & family ties rather than their qualification...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
Well it has been a busy week in the Kurdish Blogosphere. Perhaps the most startling is the infighting between the members of the group blog the Kurdistan Bloggers Union. Having...
Iran: Riots in France
Mr.Behi writes: At the moment, Iranian government is really anti-western in attitude and they are very pissed off that France together with other countries condemned Ahmadinejad for his speech. As...
News about Iranian Blogs: Filtering, New book and Ramadan
In Iran, government is privatising filtering! A company, “Delta Global”, gets exclusivity from Iranian government to impose filtering on virtual world. Irony of story is that American softwares are used...
Iran: TV False News
Hanif Mazroi writes that Iranian TV broadcasts false news. Recently Iranian TV reported that US Foreign Affairs asked for Akbar Ganji to be liberated and US thanks for all Ganji...
Iran: Open Letter to President
Kaskol Haji who presents himself as a faithful person to Islamic Republic wrote an open letter to Ahmadinejad. Haji mentioned raising prices of some products by goverment has disappointed many...
Iran: Woman Working Hours
According to director of Center for Women & Family, Women's work hour will be reduced. Then they can spend more time in their families. Sooratak say that women will be...
Iran: Woman Banned in Virtula World
Iranian Feminist Tribune was filtered too. “We, the women, are forbidden products in real world of society, now we are banned in virtula world too.” (Persian)
Iran: Ahmadinejad on Palestinian TV
Rooznamenegar No ( which means New Journalist in Persian) says that Palestinian official TV was really indifferent to Ahmadinejad's anti Israel speech. He says Palestinian TV just reported comments from...
Iran: National Interest
Hanif Mazroi, Iran based journalist, says one of the most essential principles in a country's Foriegn Policy is preserving national interest. He adds, “now look at conservatives in power in...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
New in Kurdish cyberspace is the announcement of a new Kurdish news agency called Firat News, while there is some critism from some Kurds, as it is currently published in...
Grand Ayatollah Reads Blogs
Last week something extraordinary happened in the Persian blogging community. Mohammad Abtahi, a former vice-president of Iran and an enthusiastic blogger was visiting the eighty-something dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri in...
Iranian Bloggers Write about Ahmadinejad's Speech & Israel
Ahmadinejad’s speech about Israel created a lot of emotions and reactions around the world. Iranian president said that Israel must be wiped from map! According to President “With God’s help...
