MUNICH – A German court put John Demjanjuk on trial Monday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp and his lawyer immediately accused the court in Munich of bias. The 89-year-old retired Ohio autoworker arrived in a wheelchair to face the final chapter of [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The heavily indebted Dubai World is not guaranteed by the emirate’s government, a top financial official from the city state said Monday, offering little direction to anxious investors on a day when the United Arab Emirates registered a record fall on the back of Dubai’s debt mess. On the first [...]
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds. No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better [...]
IRAN’S PARLIAMENT, the majlis, has adopted legislation allocating $20 million (€13.34 million) for anti-western militant groups and investigations into US and British plots against the clerical regime. The law says the funding should go to “progressive currents that resist the illegal activities by the governments of the US and Britain”, to “confront [their] plots and [...]
Prominent Iranian reformist cleric, Ayatollah Hoseinali Montazeri criticized the role of Basij militia in the violent suppression of the post-election protesters and maintained the Basij was not established to serve “in the path of the Satan.” Gathering of supporters with Ayatollah Montazeri on the occasion of Eid-e Gorban see video In the post election events, [...]
Behzad Nabavi Behzad Nabavi, a prominent face amongst Iran’s post-election detainees who has just been released on bail, has been greeted warmly by people and opposition leaders. Among those visiting Nabavi are Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Khatami, Mehdi Karroubi and Abdollah Nouri. Nabavi was released on November 27 for 10 days on an 800-million-touman ($800,000) [...]
Days after a new resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog called on Iran to halt the construction of its Fordo enrichment plant, the Iranian government tasks the Atomic Energy Organization (AEO) with building ten more nuclear enrichment sites. According to the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the AEO should begin the construction of five of [...]
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (Mehr News Agency) — Bahram Beizaii’s “Bashu, the Little Stranger” was announced as the best film at the International Parvin Etesami Film Festival. The acclaimed film, which narrates the story of a boy who escapes from his hometown in the Iran-Iraq war-stricken region of the south where a Gilani woman gives him [...]
Bahamn Ahmadi Amouyi Zhila Bani-Yaghoub, Iranian journalist and social activist, in a letter to the judiciary urged Tehran Prosecutor General not to allow her husband, Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi to be kept in solitary confinement until the date of his court hearing. Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi is a journalist that was arrested in the post-election events in [...]
Iran says IAEA will face consequences of decision Press TV | Nov. 28, 2009 The UN nuclear watchdog will be the first to face the consequences of a newly-adopted resolution condemning Iran for its enrichment program, says a senior Iranian cleric. On Friday, the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed a [...]
