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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Former Aide Says Iranian President-Elect Is Not Superman

    Before leaving Iran some two years ago, well-known journalist Mehdi Mahdavi Azad worked for half a decade as an aide to Hassan Rohani, Iran's new president-elect. Azad, who is now based in Germany, shares his thoughts on Rohani with RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz ...

  • Pakistan’s new government gives go ahead to Iran gas pipeline

    In order to overcome energy crisis in the country, Pakistan's new government led by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has given go-ahead to Iran-Pakistan gas ...

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Back to School [DVD]

Back to School [DVD]

In Back to School, comedian Rodney Dangerfield essentially plays a softer variation on the role of Al Czervik, the character that made him famous in Caddyshack (1980). In both roles he plays an extremely wealthy character who refuses to pla ... ...

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  • Iran picks site for new nuclear research reactor

    TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's state TV says a site in southern Iran has been selected for a planned new nuclear research reactor.There has been no timetable announced for the proposed plant, which would be similar to a research reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes. Iran's lone energy-producing reactor is in the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr.Iran also is working on a so-called ...

  • Irans Hassan Rouhani Stands Out As A Moderate Among Reactionaries

    Iran's former top nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani smiles as he attends a press conference. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) By Joshua Muravchik Most commentators on Hassan Rouhani's surprising first round victory of in Iran's presidential election have pointed to his long record as a regime insider with a record that is scarcely liberal. That is true, but it may ...

  • More EU pressure on Iran Israel PM tells Ashton

    JERUSALEM: Europe must take a firmer line with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday at the start of a working meeting with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton."We need to exert pressure on them. We're not talking about political spin but about the spinning of centrifuges," he said in remarks communicated by ...

  • Green is the colour Sahan Delijanis novel takes on the revolution in Iran and the struggle for freedom

    The scene was quite different from what we saw in Iran in 2009, though both incidents are continuations of - perhaps reactions to - the Islamic revolution in which students rose up, the shah was deposed and theocracy ...

  • Iran courts China for drilling rigs

    Iran announced plans to pay $850 million to secure 10 drilling rigs from Chinese manufacturers instead of domestic companies. The Iranian government said it was working to decouple its economy from the oil and natural gas sector. The national currency, the rial, collapsed last year under the weight of Western economic sanctions targeting the energy sector. Nevertheless, the North Drilling Co. ...

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