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  • British Court Ruling Threatens Iran Sanctions

    LONDON Western government sanctions against Iran suffered a big setback on Wednesday when Britain's top court ruled that the government was wrong to have imposed sanctions on the biggest Iranian private bank over alleged links to Tehran's nuclear program. The Bank Mellat case and 50 more like it pending at the European Union's General Court have cast a cloud over the future of EU ...

  • PM congratulates President-elect Rowhani of Iran

    The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has congratulated President-elect Hasssan Rowhani of Iran on his election. Dr. Singh in his congratulatory message said India and Iran enjoy deep historical and civilizational links, which have provided a strong foundation for our broad-based and mutually beneficial relationship. "We look forward to strengthening this relationship further and ...

  • Analysts Assess Impact of Military Attack on Iran

    The United States and the European Union believe Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran says its program is for peaceful, civilian purposes. The international community has been trying for years to persuade Iran to end its uranium-enrichment program, but to no avail. Low-enriched uranium can be used for civilian nuclear-power plants, but highly enriched uranium is an ...

  • NRI lawyer wins Iran bank case in British Supreme Court

    Mumbai-born Parsi lawyer Sarosh Zaiwala Wednesday notched a remarkable success in a bank case in the British Supreme Court, with major ramifications on the international banking system, an official said. By the court verdict, the British government's sanctions on Iran's largest private bank, Bank Mellat, were lifted after the its security service's "Secret Court" failed to produce significant ...

  • Iranians dance in the streets after qualifying for World Cup days after election

    For the second time in days, Iranians, who have had little cause for cheer in eight years, have been dancing in the streets. There was an explosion of joy in their fun-starved nation when its beloved national football team won a prized ticket to next summer's World Cup finals in Brazil with a 1-0 away victory over South Korea on Tuesday. This followed a weekend of celebrations after ...

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New York in the 50's

Betsy Blankenbaker's documentary New York in the 50's is not, as the title suggests, so much about a particular time and place as it is about a specific group of likeminded people who, for a few short years, came together in a way that could not be imaginable in any other time or in another other location. ...

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  • Iranian bank wins sanctions case in UK court

    Bank Mellat, Iran's largest private bank, has had a move by the British government to have sanctions held against it declared unlawful by the UK Supreme Court, it has been ...

  • IKCO plans production increase

    Iran-Khodro Co (IKCO) is planning to step up its daily production to 2000 cars by the end of this June to meet the rapidly growing market demand, Fars news has reported. The country's largest automaker currently produce over 1000 sets of different passenger cars a day that would run up to 2000 cars a day by the end of the month, said IKCO vice president for production, Hussein ...

  • Damning Suicide Note to Iran’s New Prez

    Benny Avni Did the eldest son of Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rouhani kill himself to protest the "hypocrisy" of his father and the regime he serves? Iranian news reports at the time said the son shot himself with his father’s pistol in 1992. But now Iranian dissident Ali Reza Nuri reports that the son wrote a suicide note. Writing in the London-based, Saudi-owned pan-Arab ...

  • Analysis US arming Assads foes forces Iran to bleed resources in Syria

    WASHINGTON - In a darkening Syria, airstrips serve as the veins of the Assad government. Flying over quiet, unsupervised Iraqi airspace, Iranian craft transport undocumented weapons to their chief ally in the region on a routine basis.To the frustration of military experts and Western officials, the Iranians release no defense budget, and certainly no inventory for covert ...

  • Baird’s dismissal of Iranian election as “meaningless” leaves little opportunity for change

    When a new president was elected in Iran, the Harper government made sure the bridges stayed burned. It has put the Conservatives offside with Iranian reformers.Since Sunday, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has been receiving e-mails from within the Iranian diaspora complaining about his response to the presidential vote in Iran that picked centrist Hassan Rowhani. The Canadian statement has ...

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