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Supreme Leader’s Senior Advisor: Syrian government supported by the people; will never be destroyed by bombs
, a candidate for the Majlis Speaker post, was referring to the recent bomb blasts in Syria, in which over 50 people were killed and wounded. Haddad-Adel said that the blasts are being orchestrated by the U.S., the Zionist regime (Israel) and their regional allies (Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States) in order to take [...]
Read More →SNSC Deputy Chairman: US supports terrorists including the Taliban, Bin Laden, and Al-Qaida in the effort to oppose Iran
Hojjatoleslam Hossein Ebrahimi said, “The Americans are trying to keep them (Mojahedin Khalq Organization, MKO) as their supporters. If they fail, other terrorist groups will be deterred from cooperating with the USA.” He added that all terrorists around the world, including the Taliban, Bin Laden, and Al-Qaida received support from the US to oppose Iran.
Read More →Iran to host the 12th international mathematics conference on September 2-5
Deputy of Semnan Province Education Organization, Hossein Fouladian, said that over 750 individuals have registered for the upcoming conference. The program includes 18 Iranian lecturers as well as one university professor from Singapore. Articles and research papers from the US, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and Canada have been submitted to the conference secretariat.
Read More →Two Iranian pilgrims abducted in Syria were released and handed over to Turkish officials on the Turkey-Syria border
Two additional pilgrims abducted in Syria were released on May 11 and have returned to Iran.
Read More →Saudi hackers attack Iranol corporate website and post anti-Shi’ite messages
The website of Iranol, considered one of the largest economic concerns in Iran, was hacked by a group of Saudi Arabian hackers known as HP Group Hack. Pictures of the Saudi King and extreme anti-Shi’ite messages were uploaded to the home page. The site has since returned to normal functioning.
Read More →Head of IRIB met with Iraqi Minister of Culture
Ezzatollah Zarghami, head of Iranian state broadcaster Voice and Vision, and the Iraqi Minister of Culture met in Baghdad and “stressed the need for guidance of art and culture activities in order to achieve Islamic and national aims of the two countries.” During the meeting, the Iraqi Minster welcomed the opening of an Iranian Cultural [...]
Read More →Supreme Leader’s representative and former head of the Political Ideology Department in the IRGC: Pride parade in Baku is a “plot by the Zionists”
Yadollah Javani said the influence of the Israeli regime on some of the countries in the area, was causing some of the governments to engage in very poor behavior that is incompatible with Islamic values and beliefs of peoples in those countries. Experience has proven that when governments ignore the values and belief of their [...]
Read More →Ayatollah Khomeini’s daughter at Islamic Awakening conference: Dictatorships destroyed freedom and is therefore despised by all people
In a speech given at a conference on the Islamic Awakening (Arab Spring), Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini, daughter of the father of the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, said that dictatorships in countries destroyed freedom (possibly even mildly hinting at the situation in Iran), and is despised by all people. People in dictatorships are the ones demanding freedom.
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Defense Minister: New fighter jet delivered to IRIAF
Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said that three new Sa’eqeh (Thunderbolt) fighter jets have been manufactured and delivered to the Iranian Air Force on time.” He also said that Iran plans to manufacture a prototype of an unmanned stealth plane. The Sa’eqeh is an Iranian-built, single-seat fighter jet, derived from the US Northrop F-5.
Read More →Police Chief: Iran-Oman cooperation to boost regional security; domestic security in Iran improves in parallel with people’s quality of life
In a meeting with Oman’s Assistant Chief of Staff, Iranian Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam said that cooperation between Iran and Oman has resulted in increased regional security and that the two countries are working together to prevent drug and human trafficking as well as smuggling. Ahmadi-Moghaddam said that under the (American) occupation of [...]
Read More →Army Ground Forces Commander: Recent military drill held to warn enemies against any possible attack against Iran; conveys a message of friendship to regional countries
Iranian Army Ground Forces Commander, Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Purdastan said, “The most important message of the drill (Jafar-e Tayyar) for our neighbors and friends in the region is that peace, friendship and security can only be achieved and maintained by regional countries… It also conveys an important message for those governments that have even the [...]
Read More →Defense Minister: Defense Ministry, universities working on over 1,000 joint projects
Brigadier General said at a meeting with the deans and professors of Ferdowsi University that “At present, over 1,000 projects in different defense fields are underway in cooperation with universities.” Vahidi said that the joint projects and cooperation have added to the Iran’s might and power. He hailed the design, production and launch of three [...]
Read More →Expert warns: Batman, Spiderman and Barbie threaten Iranian youth and society; Iran facing soft war using culture, the media and technology
Dr. Hojjatallah Moradi, an expert on social issues and a member of the Scientific Council of Imam Hussein University of the the IRGC spoke at a seminar on soft warfare and discussed how to identify the instruments of soft war. “The main purpose of such a war is to effect a change in relationships and [...]
Read More →Chief of Staff: Iran and Oman to conduct joint military maneuvers and increase military cooperation
At the end of the conference of the 10th Iran-Oman Joint Military Committee, Amir Mostafa Salami said that Iran and Oman would conduct joint military maneuvers this winter. He discussed agreements reached at the conference between the parties, including assistance to Iranian destroyers in Omani ports, joint drills and maneuvers, particularly assistance and rescue, mutual [...]
Read More →Iran preparing to host 12th Resistance Film Festival
Basij Commander Mohammad Reza Naghdi appointed Mohammed Hazaei as Secretary of the 12th International Resistance Film Festival (Revolution and Holy Defense) that will be dedicated this year to the culture of resistance and the Iran-Iraq War, fighting and sacrifice against the enemy, economic sanctions, scientific achievements, resistance and Islamic Awakening, fight against world imperialism, terrorism [...]
Read More →New appointments in the IRGC
Mosehn Karimi was appointed as the new commander of the special SABERIN unit in the IRGC, replacing Sardar Mirian. Mirian was appointed to fill a position in the Operations Division in the IRGC Ground Forces.
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Iran to locally assemble Mazda 3
A locally-assembled Mazda 3 is scheduled to hit the market by the end of September 2012. Bahman Auto Manufacturing Group announced last year that it had planned to assemble Mazda 3 in Iran. The car would cost about USD 26,000. Bahman Auto Manufacturing Group produces New Mazda 3 Sedan in first, second and third types [...]
Read More →Deputy Oil Minister: Iranian petrochemical industry will not import equipment unless it is unavailable in Iran
Deputy Oil Minister Abdulhussein Bayat said that Iran currently uses USD 1.5 to 2 billion in credit to provide a range of goods, equipment and chemicals to the petrochemicals industries. He listed the conditions for ordering goods from abroad during the Year of National Labor and Production, as declared by the Supreme Leader, and stressed [...]
Read More →Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade: Iran a pioneer of e-commerce among West Asian countries
Mohammad Sadeq Mofatteh said, “Over the past three years, Iran has managed, by procuring the electronic commerce infrastructure, to be a pioneer in this field among West Asian countries.” He added that while e-commerce has a history of less than 20 years, countries such as China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea have made considerable progress [...]
Read More →Energy Minister: Second stage of Subsidy Reform Law expected to drive electricity and water prices up
Majid Namjou announced that the surge in electricity and water prices in the second stage of implementation of the Subsidy Reform Law is a closed and final matter. Namjou added that the second stage of law will undoubtedly be implemented this year, but price hikes would not exceed 20%. He further stated that the government [...]
Read More →Iran to sue French company Total
The head of Iran’s Gas Association announced that Iran would soon be filing suit against the French company Total for several violations it committed in development of the South Pars field. This lawsuit will soon be filed in the relevant international institutions.
Read More →Another round of Iran-Iraq gas talks
A new round of talks on gas has gotten underway between Iran and Iraq for Iranian gas exports to Iraq and renewal of exports to Europe through Syria. According to reports, a gas export agreement to Iraq will soon be signed. Iran plans to export 20-25 million cubic meters of gas a day to Iraq.
Read More →Oil Minister dismisses reports about drop in oil exports
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi denied a report by the International Energy Agency that sales of Iranian oil are down. He stressed, “This is incorrect and there has not been any decrease in our oil exports.” He also answered reporters’ questions regard a report that Iran has stockpiled 30 million barrels of unsold oil in [...]
Read More →Sri Lanka announces reduced purchases of Iranian oil
Fars News quoting Reuters reports that the Oil Minister of Sri Lanka announced that is cutting back its oil purchases from Iran by 38% and replacing this amount with purchases from other countries such as Oman and Saudi Arabia. Following this move, the country expects to be included among the countries exempt from US sanctions [...]
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Journalist says he was threatened by security apparatus
Abd al-Naser Moheymani, head of Press House in Golestan Province and a critic of Ahmadinejad, wrote a letter to the Gorgan Township prosecutor in which he protested against the threats and harassment he and his family faced by a security organization. He asked the prosecutor to quickly resolve the issue. According to the reformist website [...]
Read More →Ethnic activist began hunger strike after transfer to an IRGC detention center
On May 13, IRGC officials violently took religious ethnic activist to section 2-A at the IRGC detention center. As he was being taken out of section 350 (in Evin prison), Pedram told his fellow inmates that he would launch a hunger strike if security guards send him to solitary confinement.” He was forced to wear [...]
Read More →Rapper Najafi faces death sentence
In answer to a question posed by believers, Ayatollah Mohammad Golpayegani declared that anyone, in this case rapper Shahin Najafi, who intentionally insults religious leaders is considered an apostate and faces the death penalty.
Read More →Prominent science magazine follows the case of Iranian graduate student sentenced to prison
Nature, an international weekly science journal, in its recent edition dedicated a story to Omid Kokabee, the Iranian graduate student who was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Kokabee, a graduate student who previously worked on the physics of optics at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona, Spain, and more recently at the University [...]
Read More →Prisoners’ families meet with religious leader
Several family members of political prisoners met with Ayatollah Jalal Al-Din Taheri, former Imam Jum’ah of Isfahan. Ayatollah Taheri met with the families although he is bed-ridden by illness and prayed with them for the release of political prisoners. Prisoners’ families also met briefly with Ayatollah Motahari, President of the Islamic college in Isfahan.
Read More →Human rights activist transferred to clinic at Evin Prison because of paralysis
Human rights activist , detained last month to serve a six-year prison sentence, has reportedly been transferred to the clinic at Evin Prison because of paralysis.
Read More →Kurdish political prisoner released after four years in jail
, a Kurdish political prisoner, was released after 55 months in jail. Ronak, an activist in the women’s movement in Sanandaj was sentenced to 6.7 years in prison on charges of activities that harm national security by contact with the Kurdish opposition party, after having served 2/3 of her sentence.
Read More →Fourth anniversary of imprisonment of 7 former Baha’i leaders marked as persecution intensifies
The five men and two women formed a national-level ad hoc group that helped attend to the needs of Iran’s 300,000-member Baha’i community. They were sentenced in August 2010 to 20 years in jail. The men are held in Gohardasht prison, about 30 miles west of Tehran, and the women are in Evin prison in [...]
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Judiciary Chief makes new appointments: Deputy for Strategic Affairs and Director of the Intelligence Center of the Judiciary
Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani issued two decrees appointing Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr as Deputy Judiciary Chief for Strategic Affairs and as director of the intelligence center of the Judiciary. Zolqadr formerly served as the Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs. He was also the Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
Read More →Alcohol consumption increases in Tehran’s southern districts; 2 million addicts in Iran, some of whom are alcoholics
In a conference on the need for a roadmap for an anti-drug program, the head of the Health Ministry’s Policy-Making Council, Baqer Larijani, said that “One of the issues raised in the roadmap is the fight against alcoholism… This problem needs to be dealt with seriously, because we cannot remain indifferent to the sale of [...]
Read More →Ali Motahari: Haddad Adel not qualified to be Majlis speaker
Ali Motahari, a member of the Majlis and one of the President’s harshest critics, responded to the latest statement of speaker-candidate Haddad Adel, who argued that submitting a query to the President harmed the Majlis and made the enemy rejoice. Motahari said, “This, in and of itself, proves that Haddad Adel is not suitable to [...]
Read More →Shortage of sunglasses expected
As summer approaches, the head of the Association of Opticians and Optical Stores in Ahvaz said that the government’s ban on importing sunglasses will cause a shortage in Iran. He noted that the equipment needed to produce them is also imported from abroad. Although the decision has not yet hurt this specific market, the summer [...]
Read More →Book documenting life of Supreme Leader Khamenei banned
Following the media storm provoked by publication of a biography of Khamenei through the revolutionary victory, the Office of the Supreme Leader ordered the collection of all the books from the book fair in Tehran, while issuing a notice that the book contained many historical errors.
Read More →It’s all in the family (or not): Ahmadinejad’s brother attacks the government
The magazine, Panjereh Weekly relates the interesting story of two brothers in the ninth and tenth governments: Mahmoud and Daoud. The former is President, and the latter was a special inspector of the Office of the President at the beginning of the ninth government. However, after his protest against the takeover by the deviant current, [...]
Read More →Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs: Second stage of subsidy reform only after this year’s budget passes
Iran’s Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs, Mohammad-Reza Mir-Tajeddini, announced that the second stage of the Subsidy Reform Law will be implemented only after the proposed budget for Persian year 1391 (the current year) is approved by the Majlis.
Read More →Rafsanjani’s brother leaves Tehran Metro
Mohsen Hashemi, Former Managing Director of Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway Company (Metro), has resigned from the company’s board of directors. He left his position as Managing Director approximately a year and half ago and has been serving as a consultant to the Mayor of Tehran and a board member since then. Mohsen Hashemi is [...]
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