Nobel Peace Laureate and leader of Burmese democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, told the Egyptian protesters:People all over the world who want freedom, somehow or the other feel connected to other people who are struggling for freedom.Time Magazine …
Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
“People All Over The World Who Want Freedom, Somehow Or The Other Feel Connected To Other People Who Are Struggling For Freedom.”
February 1st, 2011 |
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Iran tells west not to interfere in executions
February 1st, 2011 |
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Iran told Western nations today that executions in the Islamic republic are none of their business. The United States on January 31 urged Iran to halt executions, with the U.S. State Department saying it was “particularly troubled” by the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman after she was denied consular access.
Former Director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center: American Policy in the Middle East is Failing Because the U.S. Doesn’t Believe in Democracy
January 31st, 2011 |
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Robert Grenier – a 27-year veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, and Director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center from 2004 to 2006 – writes today: Events in the Middle East have slipped away from us. Having long since opted in favour of…
Historian: The First Wave of the Arab Liberation Movement Was Against Colonial Domination; The Second is for More Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights
January 31st, 2011 |
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Historian and professor of Islamic studies at the University of London’s Birkbeck College, Basheer Nafi, puts the Egyptian protests in the following context:My feeling is that we are witnessing a second wave of the Arab liberation movement … In the …
Dutch woman hanged in Iran
January 29th, 2011 |
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An Iranian-Dutch woman detained after participating in protests against Iran’s disputed presidential election in 2009 has been hanged.
Zahra Bahrami’s execution appears to have been punishment for a conviction on other charges. State television says she was hanged today for possessing and selling drugs.
“Cyberattack on Iran could have sparked nuclear disaster”
January 27th, 2011 |
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A Russian official says a recent cyberattack on Iran’s atomic-energy program could have triggered a nuclear catastrophe on the scale of the Chornobyl disaster. Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s ambassador to NATO, said the virus that hit the computer system at Iran’s Bushehr reactor had caused centrifuges to spin out of control.
Iran launches cyber police unit
January 24th, 2011 |
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Iran has launched its first cyber police unit, with more planned in the near future, euronews reports. Its main role will be to patrol the web to prevent opposition groups contacting each other and organising the kinds of protests seen after the contested 2009 presidential election.
Iran nuclear talks end without agreement
January 22nd, 2011 |
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Two days of talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear program have ended without agreement.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton says she was disappointed with the outcome of the talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, a group known as the P5 + 1.
Computer worm sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program
January 16th, 2011 |
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A U.S. news report says experts at an Israeli facility were involved in testing a computer worm that is believed to have sabotaged Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.
According to the report, the worm disrupted Tehran’s potential to develop an atomic weapon.
Diplomats visit Iran’s nuclear sites
January 15th, 2011 |
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Iran has opened the doors of two atomic facilities to foreign diplomats, but representatives of the leading world powers declined to attend or were not invited.
The two-day tour reportedly takes the diplomats to the heavy water installation in Arak and the main uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, both in central Iran.
Clinton in Gulf for talks on Iran, Iraq
January 10th, 2011 |
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has begun a five-day visit to the Gulf region aimed at persuading Arab allies to tighten nuclear sanctions on Iran. She will also seek to enhance their ties with Iraq’s newly formed government VOA reports.
72 killed in Iran plane crash
January 10th, 2011 |
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Seventy-two people, including 12 crew members, were killed when a plane with 105 people on board crashed in northwest Iran. The remaining 33 people were seriously injured in the accident that occurred Sunday evening in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, Xinhua said, citing reports from the semi-official Fars news agency. The Boeing-727, belonging to the state-owned [...]
EU to reject Iran’s invitation to nuclear sites
January 8th, 2011 |
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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton says the EU will turn down Iran’s offer to visit its nuclear facilities. She stressed that the EU welcomed Iran’s invitation but that the task should be carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran stoning woman to sue Germans
January 3rd, 2011 |
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An Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery said on Monday that she plans to sue two jailed German journalists who interviewed her son, euronews reports. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose case has caused international outrage, said the two reporters should not be released.
Biggest Terrorism Scaremongers Are THEMSELVES Promoting Terrorism
January 3rd, 2011 |
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The biggest scaremongers regarding the threat from terrorism are themselves promoting terrorism.Don’t believe me?Well, Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh says that the Bush administration (and especially Dick Cheney) helped to …
Iran looks to Turkey to broker nuclear talks
December 24th, 2010 |
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Iran may ask Turkey to mediate in nuclear talks with six major powers when it plays host in Istanbul next month, euronews reprots. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held closed-door talks with his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, on a visit to the city this week.
Official: U.S. ready to tackle Iran
December 18th, 2010 |
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U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen warns that the U.S. is ready to counter Iran’s nuclear threat.
The U.S. top military officer has said Iran was trying to build a nuclear bomb and warned that Washington is “very ready” to counter what he called the Islamic republic’s threats to “peace and stability.”