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New sanctions on Iran to target LNG technology
The West intends to use Iran’s planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry as part of a new wave of sanctions to punish Tehran and bypass objections at the UN.
Category: Articles / TextsPro-Israel activists protest Iranian ambassador's appearance at Berlin school
The decision of a private school, Königin-Luise-Stiftung, to host the Iranian ambassador to Germany, Ali Reza Sheikh Attar, Monday for a German-Iranian Teacher's Conference prompted protests from groups critical of Iran's human...
Category: Articles / TextsIran sets up Internet monitoring unit
Iranian police have set up a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a possible attack on the opposition, which relies on that medium to broadcast its message. Iran's state radio and TV are directly...
Category: Articles / TextsIran advocacy group said to skirt lobby rules
Shortly before Barack Obama took office, leaders of a prominent Iranian-American group in Washington began to fret. They feared their long-running effort to persuade American officials to lift sanctions could wind up in tatters.
Category: Articles / TextsRevolutionary Guard Tightens Security Grip
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has sidelined the country's intelligence ministry, forming a new organization that reports directly to the Supreme leader. The changes could have the effect of formalizing the tough and sometimes...
Category: Articles / TextsEhsan Fattahian was executed today morning by the Islamic Republic
Today, when punishment is the answer for those who seek freedom and justice, how can one fear his fate? Those of “us” who have been sentenced to death by “them” are only guilty of seeking an opening to a better and fair world....
Category: Articles / TextsGuards Threaten to Punish Activists Outside Iran
After stressing to identify many protestors inside and outside Iran, Brigadier Masoud Jazaeri promised that they would be confronted “at the appropriate” time. The Islamic republic of Iran has been accused of numerous...
Category: Articles / TextsMeir Jevendavar: Iran's top-down unity
Iran's refusal to accept the recent nuclear proposal put forward in Vienna has left many people baffled, especially since it was one of the most generous deals offered to date by the west.
Category: Articles / TextsWho's Really Running Iran's Green Movement
The protesters are aiming to bring down the very system of which their leaders are a part. Despite being lauded as modernizers, opposition front-runner Mousavi and his two green movement colleagues are deeply loyal to the ideals...
Category: Articles / TextsIran tested advanced nuclear warhead design
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking".
Category: Articles / TextsGermany: No case against ship's owners
German authorities do not plan to prosecute the owners of the Francop, the German-owned vessel that shipped the massive cache of Iranian supplied rockets and weapons that was confiscated by Israeli naval commandos overnight...
Category: Articles / TextsOver 60 tons of Iranian arms and missiles found on German vessel
Special Navy forces discovered weapons and ammunition on a cargo ship overnight Tuesday. A significant amount of 122 mm. Katyusha rockets, likely made in Iran, assault rifles, mortar shells and grenades were found on board. The...
Category: Articles / TextsThe Latest from Iran (4 November — 13 Aban): Today Is The Day
Live blogging about the protests in Iran.
Category: Articles / TextsPeacefully Towards Disaster?
Peacefully Towards Disaster? November 04: Lecture by Matthias Kuentzel on the Western policy of dialogue with the Iranian regime >>
Category: Austria, EventsRobert Kagan: Immediately begin imposing new sanctions
For the clerics, an endless negotiating process is not merely a means of putting off any real concessions on its nuclear program. It is also, and more important, a way of putting off any Western sanctions that could produce new...
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