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  • Iranian Wrestlers Abruptly Leave US Early

    The U.S. State Department has denied Iranian media reports that the United States deported the Iranian wrestling team ahead of a Sunday meet in Los Angeles. A State Department official tells VOA's Persian News Network that U.S. authorities had nothing to do with their departure. The wrestlers abruptly returned home after beating the American team in an exhibition Wednesday at Grand ...

  • The Iranian threat isn’t nuclear – it’s political

    During the eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency, Iran has become an increasingly dangerous place. That danger, however, is not posed by nuclear weapons - which remain an uncertain and, at worst, long-term threat - but more urgently from Iran's own self-imposed collapse.Far worse than Mr. Ahmadinejad's comic-book sabre-rattling at Israel and the West, worse than his ...

  • MFA controls situation with Azerbaijani citizens detention in Iran

    The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs is controlling the issue regarding the detained Azerbaijani citizens in Iran. This was announced Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov, Gun.Az reports. "We are still in contact with the relevant authorities of Iran. The Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran and the Consulate General in Tabriz keep this issue under control," said ...

  • Women cannot contest Iran presidential election

    (MENAFN - Arab News) Women can not contest Iran's June 14 presidential election, a member of the Islamic state's electoral watchdog said in media reports yesterday, dashing the hopes of some 30 female candidates."The law prohibits women from being president," said hard-line cleric and former judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, quoted by the Mehr news agency.Yazdi is a ...

  • Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture

    The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to ...

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Jubilee [DVD]

Jubilee [DVD]

Nineteen seventy-seven was jubilee year in Great Britain, celebrating the Queens 25th year on the throne. It was also the year that saw the release of Derek Jarmans Jubilee, an ironic title if ever there was one, given that the film is a cinematic middle finger pointed directly at everything traditionally British. Steeped in the punk ethos that was taking the country by storm in the mid-19 ... ...

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  • Irans wrestling team abruptly decides to skip L.A. competition

    After New York competition, Iranian media report that U.S. officials wouldn't guarantee the Iranian team's safety in Los Angeles, but USA Wrestling calls that 'a total ...

  • Syrian president starts meeting with Iranian FM

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Tuesday evening with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi who arrived earlier in the capital Damascus for talks about the recent development in the region following the Israeli attack on Syria earlier this week. Details about the talks were not made available yet. Coming from a visit in Jordan, Salehi is expected to express Iran's ...

  • U.S. Quiet On Iran Women President Bar

    The United States has declined to take a firm stand after a member of Iran’s electoral authority said women will be barred from standing in Iran’s June presidential election. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would not comment on specific candidates. She also noted that Iranian authorities must approve all candidates. The spokeswoman said that, broadly, the ...

  • IAEA chief says Iran refuses to cooperate

    Iran has refused to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its controversial nuclear program, Yukiya Amano, director-general of the UN nuclear watchdog, said here on ...

  • Iran president escapes attack

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday when a blast hit one of the vehicles of his cavalcade, a media report said. Iran's Press TV, however, denied the report. Al Arabiya TV reported the blast took place in the western city of Hamadan as the president was about to address a crowd. The attacker was arrested on the spot. The bomb hit a car carrying ...

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