Fred Petrossian · January, 2006

Latest posts by Fred Petrossian from January, 2006

Nuclear Crisis, Sanctions & BBC

  17 January 2006

Iranian nuclear crisis has become a hot story in Media around the world. Several Iranian bloggers inside Iran and out side country, have shared their feelings and fear about sanctions and war. They also show their disappointment concerning international media. Mehrangize Kar, a USA based human right lawyer, writer and...

Iran: CNN & Mistranslation!

  17 January 2006

Shiva the spy, a US based blogger, says a CNN journalist mistranslated President Ahmadinejad's words in his recent public address; rather than quoting the leader as saying, “Every country has the right to peaceful nuclear technology,” the translator conveyed the message as, “Every country has the right to nuclear weapons.”...

Afghan Whispers

  16 January 2006

Afghan Reality says that according to a poll released by WorldPublicOpinion.org, 83 per cent of respondents think things in the country are going in the right direction. The blogger adds: “Two imporant considerations must be taken into stock: a greater need for labour intensive programs to tackle the ‘opium economy’...

Iran: Martin Luther King

  16 January 2006

Fanous, a collective Iran based blog, has honoured memory of Dr.Martin Luther King by publishing several postings about him. For Fanous, Dr.Luther King was and is a real symbol of non violent political opposition.Persian

Iran: Data Centers

  16 January 2006

Iran based Hezbollah blogger, Morteza va Ma, reports an article from Computer Javan (Young computer, magazine):” In World Summit on information society in Tunisia, USA monopolized internet without any war! Iranian presence didn’t have any meaningful presence. Blogger says in Iran , to be able to face US Internet monopoly...

Afghanistan:Turkic People

  13 January 2006

Gardegah says Turkic people in Afghanistan are facing discrimination. These people,Turkmen & Uzbek who are about 12% of population, according to blogger have no place in afghan administration or government. (Persian)

Iran: Sanctions & People

  13 January 2006

The Spirit of Man says, “Breaking seals at nuclear site, moves Iran one step closer to the crisis with the West over its dangerous and useless nuclear programme”. Blogger adds “I am just worried about those ordinary Iranians who will have to live under the possible sanctions which will definitely...

Iran: A Question from BBC

  11 January 2006

Webgardian says in BBC (Persian), we read that most Iranian back Iranian government's policy concerning nuclear technology.Webgardian asks according to which studies or statistics, BBC reporter can pretend such a thing.

Iran: Letter to Google!

  11 January 2006

Please don't be evil, an Iranian blogger, says ” we (probably means Iranians) are writing to request from Google to allow download Google pack for Iranian users. We believe that this restriction only hits scientists , researchers and students, helping the local government to avoid people from free access to...

Afghanistan: Ethnic diversity

  11 January 2006

Safrang (“commentary” in old Persian) says it is through accepting the realities of ethnic diversity and building institutions that reflect this that societies find peace and throw away their weapons. More particularly, the Balkan lesson has shown that long-lasting peace can be achieved through devolution of power and decentralization of...

Petition For Political Prisoners & Air Plane Crash!

  10 January 2006

Several Iranian bloggers have signed a petition (a letter) in which they asked freedom for political prisoner in Karaj Rejai Shahr Prison. Amnesty international, Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations have been asked to send delegations to this prison. We read in this petition: “On the eighth week of the...

Iran: Free Strike Leader!

According to Paiz (Persian), Nederlands based blogger, ICFTU (international confederation of free trade unions) wrote a letter to Iranian President to protest against the continued detention of the leader of the Syndicate Mansour Osanloo. It has also been reported that 1500 Sherkate Vahed (Tehran's Bus compnay) workers signed a petition...

Iran: More Filtering!

According to Hoder, Toronto based blogger, filtering Iranian sites and blogs have become more efficient. Hoder's visitors, from Iran, dropped from 40% to 13% of total number of visitors. (Persian)

Human Rights, Non Violence Library & Christmas

Cheraghyekhamoush (Turned off lights) talks about Ahmadinejad’s, recent proposition to Europeans about human rights. According to Iranian President, whose government is under pressure for human rights abuses, Iran can send delegation to European countries to report about human rights including political prisoners, women’s rights and so on in European countries....

Afghan Whispers

  2 January 2006

Taliban & Schools: Afghan women and girls were routinely victimized under the Taliban, who even denied them the right to go to school. President Karzai's government has given girls the opportunity to go back to schools but the Taliban is still trying to stop half the Afghan population from learning...