1. Why is bread so highly valued in Persian culture? Describe how this is soin everyday life. Among Iranians, bread is known as ‘Barkat-e-Khoda’ (the blessing of God). Like many other cultures and religions (as in Christianity’s bread and wine), it has a symbolic value. Along with rice, bread is the ...

Numerous successes widen hardline fissures, keep regime on defensive. The Green Movement is over one year old. The large street demonstrations and gatherings, both before and after the rigged presidential election of June 2009, that gave birth to the movement, have largely ended. The world has shifted its attention back to ...

In an interview on CNN recently, President Obama’s national security adviser, Gen James Jones, indicated that the President could meet with Ahmadinejad if the Islamic Regime resumed negotiations over its nuclear program. The general went on to say, “One thing they might do is return our three hikers. That would ...

Long before the June 2009 Selection, at the time when reformist papers were being shut down faster than you can say “Khamenei” one after the other, there was always a discussion amongst reformist ranks of the need for the opposition to have its own indepedent TV channel and its own media outlet far from the reach of the ...

In remarks he made yesterday, Mir Hossein Mousavi has actually pointed to the 1987 executions. He said: ”we must look at the events of 87 through the historic lens in which they were situated, and then we must see if the government had any knowledge about them at all? Did the government play any ...

  I came across another review from a reader on Amazon that really touched me and so I decided to post it here for all to see: By: Mladen Andrijasevic There are several books I wish Americans were reading today. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Nomad and Melanie Phillips’s A World Turned Upside Down. But ...

The 1979 song, which was released in the same year as the Islamic Revolution, has been reworked by two exiled Iranian brothers. Roger Waters, a founding member of Pink Floyd, gave the rights to Blurred Vision, a duo living in Canada, to remake the classic under the title Another Brick in ...

A concerned citizen and supporter of the Iranian cause for freedom went through the trouble of transcribing the Q&A from my presentation at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy given in front of over 100 dignitaries, policy makers and media. Q&A MIKE EISENSTADT (moderator) If I can ask you a question about ...

Looks like his excellency the octopus was on to something! Tabnak [the site affiliated with "pragmatic conservative" and presidential nominee Mohsen Rezaie] reports that the first “social networking site dedicated to the lovers of the supreme leader” has been launched. You can check it out here (the spaces are intentional, delete them after pasting in your browser): http:// velayat ...

The "defected" Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri has reportedly turned up at the Iranian Interests Section in Washington DC. This is a saga that gets funnier by the minute and I'm sure there's a political comedy there. Shahram Amiri was never really the big shot nuclear defector he was portrayed as the media and didn't really have much ...

The Vatican has suggested it was open to intervening in the case of a woman in Iran who was sentenced to death by stoning. ...

5 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Sunday that any country, including Japan, which imposes sanctions against Iran, ...

We can have -- I can say I think he would have been a threat competing with Iran, and someone else might say to me, well, actually he would have just been ...

Iran is paying Taliban fighters $1000 for each US soldier they kill in Afghanistan, according to a report in a British newspaper. The Sunday Times described ...

The US has pushed the UNSC into approving a fourth round of sanctions against Iran recently, accusing the Islamic Republic of pursuing a military nuclear ...

Jalali cited anti-Iran sanctions resolution, withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and the recent PA-Israel talks as among moves by Obama to secure his party's ...

DOHA — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday during a visit to the Gulf state of Qatar that any attack on the Islamic republic will result in ...

TEHRAN — A vocal female human rights activist and journalist went on trial in Iran Saturday on charges including "warring against God," which is punishable ...

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has condemned an attack on the home of an opposition leader, calling the perpetrators "unruly elements. ...

Opposition activists linked to Iran's "green movement" have launched a new satellite TV channel, RASA TV, from Belgium as an alternative news source for ...