Iran’s Unveiled Stealth Fighter in Flight Across Fake Photoshopped Image.
Region: IranBy Farid Iranian bloggers revealed earlier this month that an official photo showing Iran’s recently unveiled stealth fighter, the Qaher-313, in flight is in fact a fake photoshopped image. Despite claims by the Iranian government that the aircraft is patrolling the skies, sharp-eyed bloggers spotted that the image was taken from the unveiling ceremony in Tehran and superimposed onto a different background. ... more
Views: 793Crime Documented on YouTube: Executed by Hanging in Tehran
Region: IranBy Hooman Askary Two young men, Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sarvari, were executed by hanging in Tehran, Iran in the early hours of January 20, 2013 before the eyes of public spectators [1] [warning: graphic photos] who had gathered to watch, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) [2]. Crime and YouTube The hunt for the alleged muggers was given top priority after security camera footage [3... more
Views: 1181Iran: Sanctions Adversely Affect Healthcare
Region: IranBy Arseh Sevom The Evil from Within There is no doubt about the immediate results of unprecedented sanctions on the lives of millions of patients in Iran. There is not a single day when we do not hear a new story about medicine shortages in Iran and how it adversely affects Iranians, especially those requiring uninterrupted medication. Over the past three weeks though, local media in Iran have highlighted alleg... more
Views: 879Iranian Blogger Sattar Beheshti Death While in Custody
Region: IranBy Hooman Askary Iranian netizens have launched a major online storm [2] [fa] after the shocking news of a blogger's death in custody was first posted [3] [fa] by opposition websites. According to interviews [4] with Sattar Beheshti's family members as well as reports on human rights websites [5], he was arrested on October 28, 2012 and announced dead some ten days after his arrest. 41 political prisoners bravely pub... more
Views: 884Iran: Collapse of Iran's Regime and Fall of Currency?
Region: Iran
By Fred Petrossian The Iranian rial hit a record low on Tuesday October 2, 2012, yet Iranian authorities appear confused and powerless face to this financial tsunami. Sanctions [1] are being blamed for the national currency's drop to [2] 34,500 rials against the United States dollar. Only a few days earlier, on Sunday, it was 29,500 rials to the dollar. Iranian lawmakers have signed [2] a petition to summon P... more
Views: 1100Iran: President Ahmadinejad's Colleague's Under Attack
Region: Iran
By Fred Petrossian While Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told [1] the U.N. General Assembly on September 26, 2012 that he has a vision for a new world order that would be absent of the “hegemony of arrogance”, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, his press adviser was arrested [2] in Iran, and Ramin Mehmanparast, the foreign ministry spokesperson, was attacked in New York. In November 2011, an Ir... more
Views: 1153Access to Google and Gmail Blocked in Iran
Region: IranBy Fred Petrossian The Iranian regime has been an enemy to freedom of speech for decades but on Sunday, September 23, 2012, they still surprised many by announcing that they would begin filtering Google and Gmail in the next hours. An Iranian official, Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, said this was due [1] [fa] to a request by the public to oppose an anti-Islam film on YouTube [2] that many see as blasphemous (Google owns ... more
Views: 778Iran: Street Sweeper Finds and Returns $500,000
Region: IranWritten by Fred Petrossian Headlines about multi-million dollar corruption often dance across the front pages of Iranian newspapers. There is currently hot news [1] about Iran's biggest bank fraud, allegedly by people with ties to the government. But all of a sudden a piece of positive news shined in Iran and outside country: A street sweeper named Ahmad Rabani from Bojnourd [2], 700km from T... more
Views: 1297Contradictions in Amarnath Yatra report: Dr. Jitendra
Region: Iran
Jammu, April 18 (Scoop News) - BJP State Chief Spokesperson & National Executive Member Dr. Jitendra Singh has accused Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) of creating an avoidable controversy over the duration of Yatra and giving out the impression that SASB is inclined to disturb peace in the region by raking up a conflict at the behest of National Conference led coalition government in the state... more
Views: 1057Iran: Women Say No to the War Monster
Region: IranWritten by Fred Petrossian he Iranian Islamic regime has ignored International Women's Day [1] for more than three decades. It does not recognize March 8, and has even banned women organizations from celebrating the day. But each year Iranian women both in the real and virtual world stil celebrate. As international sanctions bite [2] and tension over Iran's nuclear program rises&nbs... more
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