· April, 2009

Stories about Iran from April, 2009

Iran: The New Year Starts With a Message From Obama

  6 April 2009

On the day Iranians celebrated Norouz (Nowruz) as the traditional Iranian new year holidays, the US President Barak Obama sent a message to the Iranian people and to the Islamic Republic leaders, calling for a new start between the two countries. Several bloggers have reacted to this message, see some of them.

Iran: Jailed cleric was released

  6 April 2009

Khbarnegar Mosalman, an Iran based blogger and journalist, informs[fa] us that Iranian Leader,Ayatollah Khamenei, ordered an Iranian cleric named Ali Reza Jahanshahi to be released from prison. The blogger is surprised that Iranian media does not talk about this issue.

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