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  • Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race

    TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...

  • Iran upgrading nuclear program IAEA

    Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA report reflects the increased international concerns about the potential proliferation dangers it represents as the completion date approaches, the Huffington Post reports. According ...

  • Israel says Iran unaffected by world pressure

    JERUSALEM -; Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear ...

  • Iran increasing its ability to produce nuclear bombs IAEA report

    The International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran has made progress in its ability to produce material for a nuclear bomb since ...

  • Ex-leader barred from running again slams Iran govt report

    TEHRAN, Iran--Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has blasted the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers, declaring it impossible for them to do a worse job running the country, an Iranian pro-reform website reported ...

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She's So Lovely

The only way to approach "She's So Lovely" is with the understanding that everyone in the film is crazy in one way or another. Their decisions are illogical and often infuriating, and the movie has no pretension of passing judgment on them or even understanding why they are the way they are. You must come to this film with the anticipation that little or nothing about these characters makes sense, ... ...

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  • Jordanian Parliament Speaker Slams Iranian Meddling in Bahrain

    Amman-May-23(BNA)Jordanian Parliament Speaker Saad Hayel Al-Srur today voiced dismay over the statements made by a top Iranian official against Bahrain, dismissing the blatant stance as a flagrant interference in the Kingdom's internal affairs and a violation of international covenants and norms. In a statement to Jordanian news Agency "Petra", he strongly condemned the ...

  • Struggle Against Dire Conditions for Iran Workers

    On April 29, just ahead of International Workers' Day, Iranian authorities summoned Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to discuss the terms of his temporary release from Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and blogger who is almost three years into a five-year prison sentence, was given leave from the prison after many pleas to care for his ailing son, who suffers from a ...

  • Irans Rafsanjani blasts clerics says report

    In this picture taken on Saturday, May 11, 2013, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to media as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, while his daughter Fatemeh, right, looks on, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. A hardline news website says Iran's election overseers have rejected a pair of powerful and ...

  • Glencore Iran deals don’t violate sanctions

    United Nations - Swiss-based commodities giant Glencore Xstrata said on Thursday that it had done nothing wrong when it engaged in metal swaps with Iran, rejecting a suggestion by UN experts that such bartering could have been a way of evading sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear ...

  • Convicted Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof bringing banned movie to Cannes

    CANNES, France - Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is coming to Cannes for a screening of his latest film, publicists for the movie said Thursday. "Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs - and authorities' attempts to ...

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