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  • Protesters taunt Basij militia in Iran (w/Video)

    12/28/2009 5:13:59 AM PST · by DGHoodini · 15 replies · 540+ views
    BBC ^ | Monday, 28 December 2009 | No Byline
    Amateur footage shot in Tehran shows protesters cornering members of the Basij militia and taunting them. They can also be heard telling the militia to chant and denounce the Supreme Leader before they let them go. (snort) >B-)
  • Raw, Stunning Footage Of Iran Protesters Saving Prisoners From Getting Hanged

    12/28/2009 7:13:25 AM PST · by FromLori · 33 replies · 2,107+ views
    The Business Insider ^ | 12/28/09 | Joe Weisenthal
    Discretion advised When you see footage such as this, with anti-regime Iranian protesters losing any concern about their own safety, it's hard to imagine the current leadership hanging on. Here, via Gateway Pundit, is brutal footage of protesters saving two men who were being hanged. Caution definitely advised. Not for the squeamish or faint of heart. video at site
  • 2009 Iranian Revolution - Streets of Tehran resemble a war zone Dec 27

    12/27/2009 4:12:00 PM PST · by joinedafterattack · 125 replies · 6,557+ views
    You Tube 2009 Iran Revolution's Channel ^ | 12-27-09 | 2009 Iran Revolution's Channel
    Must see fresh videos of Iraninan Revolution in progress. http://www.youtube.com/user/2009IranRevolution
  • Is this the legendary lost Persian army

    11/09/2009 8:05:43 PM PST · by Charlespg · 14 replies · 1,134+ views
    Daily mail ^ | 10th November 2009 | Cher Thornhill
    The legend of the lost Persian army has survived over two and a half millennia - despite a blatant lack of hard evidence. But now two Italian experts believe they have found its remains. Twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni uncovered hundreds of human bones, weapons and jewelery in the Sahara desert, west Egypt, that they believe belonged to the 50,000-strong army.
  • SAINTS ABDON and SENNEN Persian Martyrs at Rome (†254) & SAINT GERMANUS Bishop of Auxerre (†450)

    07/29/2009 11:25:56 PM PDT · by GonzoII · 320+ views
    magnificat.ca ^ | 1882 | Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin
    July 30 Spiritual Bouquet: I am the vine, you are the branches. St. John 15:5 SAINTS ABDON and SENNENPersian Martyrs at Rome(†254) The emperor Decius, enemy of Christians, had defeated the king of Persia and become master of several countries over which he reigned. He had already condemned to torture and death Saint Polychrome, with five members of his clergy. Saint Abdon and Saint Sennen, illustrious Persian dignitaries of the third century whom the king of Persia had highly honored, were secretly Christian; it was they who had taken up the body of the martyred bishop, which had been cast...
  • A Persian prison state: Second of four parts

    07/23/2009 7:01:39 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 236+ views
    The National Post ^ | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Nazanin Afshin-Jam
    International diplomacy has failed to end Iran's nuclear program, halt its support for terrorist groups, or force the regime to respect basic human rights. But a new strategy is at hand: In a four-part National Post series, presented in partnership with the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, prominent writers explain how the world can apply pressure on Iran. In today's instalment, Canadian human-rights activist Nazanin Afshin- Jam explains how Iran's persecution of its own citizens is feeding the nation's appetite for reform.
  • Tehran 'like a war zone'

    06/26/2009 1:14:37 AM PDT · by blueplum · 12 replies · 833+ views
    Guardian UK ^ | Jun 25th, '09 | Mark Tran, Robert Tait and agencies in Tehran
    -snip- The opposition website Rooz Online carried what it said was an interview with a man the government had shipped in to Tehran to quell the demonstrations. He said he was being paid 2m rial (£122) per day to assault protesters with a heavy wooden stave, and that other volunteers, most of them from far-flung provinces, were being kept in hostel accommodation, reportedly in east Tehran. With the independent media banned from covering street protests, the reports could not be verified. There were also unconfirmed reports tonight that Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, had been...
  • Difference Between Iranians And Arabs

    05/02/2009 1:45:10 PM PDT · by Cyrus the Great · 53 replies · 1,368+ views
    Thomas Keyes ^ | 2/7/05 | Thomas Keyes
    Many Americans seem to entertain the illusion that Iranians are Arabs. This may be due to the fact that many people in both communities practise Islam, which I'll mention below. Another coincidence that may have contributed to this confusion is the apparent similarity of the names Iran and Iraq. It is true that the Persian language and the Arabic share the same alphabet, namely the Arabic alphabet, which was imposed upon the Iranians centuries ago. But originally Persian had its own alphabet. Anyway, in Arabic script the names of the countries are entirely different, 'Iraq' beginning with the letter 'ain'...
  • Iran’s Yankee Hero (Commemorating Howard Baskerville)

    04/19/2009 4:13:11 AM PDT · by SolidWood · 8 replies · 1,011+ views
    NYT ^ | April 18, 2009 | FARNAZ CALAFI, ALI DADPAY and POUYAN MASHAYEKH
    FEW Americans have heard of Howard Conklin Baskerville, but most Iranians know his name. A native of Nebraska, Baskerville graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary and moved to Iran as a Presbyterian missionary. He was 23. The year was 1907. Baskerville was an idealist at a time of idealism in Iran. The year before Baskerville’s arrival, the ailing king of Iran, Mozaffar ud-Din Shah, had bowed to popular demands for a constitutional monarchy and Iranians had drafted the first Constitution of their 25-century-long history. A parliament, the Majlis, was established and each city elected an assembly, or Anjoman. Tabriz —...
  • What Really Happened to the Shah of Iran? [Carter + British]

    04/15/2009 8:39:05 PM PDT · by Cyrus the Great · 16 replies · 1,353+ views
    Payvand ^ | 4/15/09 | Ernst Schroeder
    "In November 1978, President Carter named the Bilderberg group's George Ball, another member of the Trilateral Commission, to head a special White House Iran task force under the National Security Council's Brzezinski. Ball recommended that Washington drop support for the Shah of Iran and support the fundamentalistic Islamic opposition of Ayatollah Khomeini. Robert Bowie from the CIA was one of the lead 'case officers' in the new CIA-led coup against the man their covert actions had placed into power 25 years earlier. Their scheme was based on a detailed study of the phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism, as presented by British...
  • What Iran’s Jews Say

    02/24/2009 5:49:29 AM PST · by Cronos · 29 replies · 603+ views
    NY Times ^ | 22 Feb 2009 | Roger Cohen
    At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn. Over the entrance is a banner saying: “Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the Jewish community of Esfahan.” The Jews of Iran remove their shoes, wind leather straps around their arms to attach phylacteries and take their places. Soon the sinuous murmur of Hebrew prayer courses through the cluttered synagogue with its lovely rugs and unhappy plants. Soleiman Sedighpoor, an antiques dealer with a store full of treasures, leads the service from a podium under a...
  • Top Iranian reformer to challenge Ahmadinejad, reports say (Khatami)

    02/08/2009 11:32:29 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 18 replies · 1,102+ views
    CNN ^ | 2/8/09
    Ending weeks of speculation, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami announced Sunday that he will run against the hardline incumbent, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to Iranian media reports. "I declare that I will stand for the next elections," Khatami told reporters on Sunday, according to Iran's state-run news agency, IRNA. Khatami, a leading reformist, had indicated for weeks that he intended to run in the June elections. Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency also reported that Khatami formally declared his candidacy on Sunday.
  • AMIR TAHERI: In Search of the Afghan Maliki - The U.S. should focus on its own interests

    01/08/2009 12:26:46 PM PST · by neverdem · 7 replies · 612+ views
    National Review Online ^ | December 15, 2008 | AMIR TAHERI
    Early in 2007, as the American presidential campaign started to gather momentum, critics of Pres. George W. Bush’s War on Terror invented a scheme that allowed them to oppose the administration’s strategy while dodging charges of appeasement. Under that scheme, Iraq was presented as “the bad war” or, according to Sen. Barack Obama, “the wrong war, at the wrong time, and in the wrong place.” In contrast, Afghanistan was presented as “the good war,” the “just war,” or even “the necessary war.” The argument was that the war in Iraq was wrong because it had not been explicitly approved by...
  • The Last of the Zoroastrians

    12/15/2008 10:15:56 AM PST · by BGHater · 23 replies · 1,054+ views
    Time ^ | 09 Dec 2008 | Deena Guzder
    Far removed from Tehran's bustling tin-roofed teashops and Isfahan's verdant pomegranate gardens, the deserts known as Dasht-e Kavir and Dasht-e Lut meet at the city of Yazd,once the heart of the Persian Empire. Walking across the wind-whipped plains of the forgotten city, a young Iranian woman dressed in colorful floral garbs points out a sand-dusted tower hovering in the distance like a dormant volcano under a relentless sun. "This is where we put tens of thousands of corpses over the years," she explains with a congenial smile. The funerary tower is part of the ancient burial practice of Zoroastrianism, the...
  • Ancient Jewish Shrine is Registered on Iran's National Works List [Esther and Mordecai tomb]

    12/15/2008 7:17:36 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 627+ views
    Biblical Archaeology Review ^ | December 11, 2008 | editors
    The head of the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Office has announced that the tomb of Esther and Mordecai has been added to the country's list of national monuments. Asadollah Bayat told the Iranian news service that the ancient tomb is an important Jewish shrine and one of the most historically important buildings in the Hamedan province of Iran. The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions, both on the plaster wall of the main hall as well as on the finely worked wooden tomb boxes. Bayat stressed the monument's importance to the Jewish community, adding that "Jews gather here in the...
  • Parsa emerges from the shadow of Persepolis

    12/01/2008 6:18:26 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 26 replies · 400+ views
    Payvand's Iran News ^ | Monday, December 1, 2008 | Hamid Golpira
    The ancient town of Parsa has begun to emerge from the shadows of Persepolis. An Iranian-Italian joint archaeological team has brought to light the first remains of the town of Parsa, which was the residential area of commoners just outside the palaces of Persepolis... Professor Callieri said the team, in collaboration with the Parsa-Pasargadae Research Foundation, is also studying the possibility of setting up a centralized data base compiling all the information on Persepolis and the surrounding area, which may also be put online on a web site. Asked if the excavation provided further evidence of the fact that Persepolis...
  • Syria, Iran warm to Russia as US tensions grow

    08/26/2008 3:14:06 PM PDT · by Flavius · 54 replies · 598+ views
    ap ^ | 8/26/08 | ap
    It's what you think...
  • US plans to station diplomats in Iran for first time since 1979

    07/17/2008 1:08:38 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 54 replies · 173+ views
    The Guardian (UK) (excerpt) ^ | June 17, 2008 | Ewen MacAskill
    The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a remarkable turnaround in policy by President George Bush. The Guardian has learned that an announcement will be made in the next month to establish a US interests section - a halfway house to setting up a full embassy. The move will see US diplomats stationed in the country. ~ snip ~
  • Cyrus cylinder's ancient bill of rights 'is just propaganda'

    07/16/2008 9:48:25 PM PDT · by bruinbirdman · 14 replies · 259+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 7/16/2008 | Harry de Quetteville
    A 2500 year old Persian treasure dubbed the world's 'first bill of human rights' has been branded a piece of shameless 'propaganda' by German historians. The Cyrus cylinder, which is held by the British Museum, is a legacy of Cyrus the Great - the Persian emperor famed for freeing the Jews of ancient Babylon after conquering the city in 539 BC. A copy of the cylinder, which is covered in cuneiform script supposed to detail the ancient charter of rights, also hangs next to the Security Council Chamber in the United Nations headquarters in New York, where it is held...
  • Archaeologists to refuse help over possible Iran strike

    07/11/2008 2:33:17 PM PDT · by forkinsocket · 22 replies · 157+ views
    NewScientist ^ | 10 July 2008 | Staff
    PERSEPOLIS, once the capital of the Persian empire, and the massive mud-brick Bam citadel are among the nine listed World Heritage Sites in Iran. Yet leading archaeologists are urging colleagues to refuse any military requests to draw up a list of Iranian sites that should be exempted from air strikes. "Such advice would provide cultural credibility and respectability to the military action," said a resolution agreed by the World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland, last week. Instead, delegates were advised to emphasise the harm that any military action would do to Iran's people and heritage.