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Iran's 'Cardboard Khomeini' Faces Criticism, CondemnationIran's "Cardboard Khomeini" is fueling a firestorm of criticism in the Middle Eastern country after cutouts of the Islamic republic's founder appeared at a number of events, and photos mocking the mock-up went viral.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 20:47
Dollar dazzles as fearful Iranians hit panic switch
TEHRAN: One measure of the profound anxiety now coursing through Iranian society can be seen on Manouchehri Street, a winding lane where furtive crowds of men gather every day like drug dealers to buy and sell US dollars.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 16:42
Jews With Ties To Iran And Israel Feel Conflicted
Iranian Jews look at the Torah scroll during a morning service for Shabbat, on the Jewish festival of Passover, at the Pol-e-Choubi Synagogue, in Tehran, Iran, April 23, 2011.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 12:32
Spokesperson: Iran ready for nuclear program expansion with other friendly countries
Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 7 / Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/ Regarding its nuclear program, Iran is ready for expansion with other friendly countries, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast said live at the press conference this morning in Tehran, IRINN TV channel reported.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 08:43
Deeper Iran sanctions; US targets its central bank
In this Feb. 1, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Falls Church, Va.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 05:22
The Stunning Collapse Of Iran's Currency
In a recent two-part series on the tensions between the United States and Iran, my colleague David Lee Smith provided readers with a broad and insightful overview of the unfolding crisis.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 01:08
Prices rise, patience thins in sanctions-hit Iran
TEHRAN, Iran -- A simple trip to the store in Iran these days offers a crash course in life under Western economic sanctions.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 21:09
Israel and Netanyahu, Pipe Down the Threats of War on Iran
Leslie H. Gelb says Israeli threats undercut prospects for a settlement with Iran.
cfr.org | 06-Feb-2012 20:44
Iranian minister: Tehran will downgrade trade ties with EU states
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iranian Industries, Mines, and Commerce Minister Mehdi Ghazanfari warned on Sunday, Feb 5, that Tehran will downgrade economic ties with the European Union member countries which voted for sanctions on Iran's oil industry.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 19:03
Iran's electricity export grows by 27 percent
Iran's electricity export has grown up by 27 percent during the first 11 months of the Iranian year, Ministry of Energy said, IRNA reported.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 14:44
Simpson dolls join Barbie on Iran ban list
TEHRAN, Iran -; An Iranian government-affiliated agency has banned dolls of the Simpsons cartoon characters, who join Barbie and others on a toy blacklist, an independent newspaper reported on Monday.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 11:34
Israelis face growing threats in Middle East
Vacationers in this glittering holiday city by the Israel-Egypt border, stroll along a seaside promenade trying to forget their nation's troubles.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 07:24
Obama says risky to attack Iran, wants diplomatic fix
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topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 03:20
Iran: More Arrests Ahead of Elections
While the condition of recently detained journalists remains unknown, more journalists are arrested ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 02:15
Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
File - In this Oct. 26, 2010, file photo, a worker rides a bike in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 22:00
Bigger US role against companies' cyberthreats?
A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth.Legislation set to come out in the days ahead is intended to ensure ... (more)
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 20:00
Turkey: Israeli Attack on Iran 'Would Be Disaster'
Tensions in the Middle East show no sign of abating today as Iran issued warnings to neighboring Gulf states that they would face the wrath of Iranian military retaliation if US bases on their soils were used to support an attack on their nuclear facilities or infrastructure.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 20:00
German reporter says he was beaten in Iran
A German reporter says he was beaten by guards during his nearly five months of imprisonment in Iran and that he heard constant, "horrible cries" of other inmates being tortured.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 18:55
Iranians bemoan sanctions hardship as vote approaches
Each day that he struggles to buy food for his family, vegetable seller Hasan Sharafi shoulders part of the burden of Iran's defiance of the West over its nuclear programme.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 16:41
Iran Vows Retaliation Against Countries Used As Base For Attack
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topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 15:41
Magnitude 5 Earthquake Strikes Near Iran's Bushehr Nuke Plant
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 13:36
Quake jolts area near Iran's Bushehr nuke plant
PanARMENIAN.Net - An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Khormoj in Bushehr province, Southern Iran, on Sunday, Feb 5. According to Fars News Agency, the Seismological center of Bushehr province affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the quake at 09:40am local time .
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 12:32
Commentary: Attacking Iran won't stop the nukes
Iran's armed forces display the country's hardware, in front of a picture of the late Iranian revolutionary Ayatollah Khomeini, during a military parade ceremony.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 12:32
Iran bans nationals from road travel to Syria
Iran banned its citizens on Friday from traveling to Syria by road following the abduction of nearly 30 Iranians in the escalating uprising in its key Middle East ally, state media reported... Sadeqi appealed to nationals to travel to Syria, a major pilgrimage destination for Iran's Shiite majority, only by plane.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 08:17
James Zogby: Dealing With Iran
If we are to believe what we are hearing and reading from a variety of confirmed and unconfirmed sources, in Israel and the U.S., some day in the next few months we may wake up to the news that Israel has bombed Iran's nuclear facilities.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 04:07
Al Qaeda operative killed during clashes in Kurram identified
Pakistani officials identified an al Qaeda operative from Azerbaijan as one of the six "foreigners" killed during recent clashes in the Kurram tribal agency that have resulted in the deaths of 23 Pakistani troops and 60 terrorists.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 23:48
Iranians will deliver a response to enemies' threats on Bahman 22nd: Rafsanjani
TEHRAN Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has said that the Iranian people will give a response to the enemies' threats and sanctions with their massive participation in rallies marking anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 19:33
Iran naval vessels moored in Jeddah Islamic Port
TEHRAN The commander of the Iranian Navy announced on Saturday that that the Navy's 18th fleet of warships, comprised of the Khark warship and the Martyr Admiral Qandi destroyer, has been moored in Jeddah Islamic Port, Saudi Arabia.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 19:33
Iranian cinema is influential beyond borders: culture minister
Culture Minister Mohammad Hosseini and Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani attend the People, Cinema and Awakening Conference in Tehran on February 4, 2012.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 17:23
Israel and U.S. need to get facts straight before attacking Iran
Many of us doubt that Iran is on the way to building a nuclear bomb. Trying to find the truth is not easy.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 14:19
Iran Begins Naval Exercises Near Gulf Strait
Iran says its powerful Revolutionary Guard is starting naval exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, the critical Gulf oil tanker route that Tehran has threatened to close in retaliation for tougher Western sanctions.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 10:04
Multiple arrests of Bahais in Shiraz, Iran
This morning, agents of the security services raided the homes of Bahais in Shiraz, and there were widespread arrests.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 09:04
Israeli Attack On Iranian Nuclear Sites Looms Larger
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 04:59
Cultural Highs And Lows For Iran
The Iranian domestic drama, "A Separation," has won the prestigious Golden Globe award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for best foreign language film.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 04:00
Stephen Harper fears Iran would use nuclear weapons if it was able to produce them
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, sat down with Mark Kennedy, centre, and John Ivison, left, Friday Febuary 3, 2012 in his office in Langevin Block across the street from Parliament Hill in Ottawa OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper insisted he is not preparing the Canadian public for war with Iran but, in his starkest warning yet, he said ... (more)
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 23:40
Iran's Baha'i community targeted with more arrests
Seven Iranian Bahai leaders detained since March 2008 Behrouz Tavakkoli and Saeid Rezaie.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 22:35
Reports: Iran successfully launches small Earth-watching satellite
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a February 2011 ceremony in Tehran to unveil four Iranian satellites and a satellite carrier.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 21:35
Iran's leader warns U.S. on war
The supreme leader of Iran issued a blunt warning Friday that war would be detrimental to the United States -- and that Iran is ready to help anyone who confronts "cancerous" Israel.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 17:31
US Lawmakers Propose Tougher Sanctions on Iran
U.S. lawmakers have proposed tighter economic sanctions on Iran, as senior intelligence officials say measures already in place are having an effect.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 15:21
Iran's blundering revolution celebrations and waning Arab support
Wednesday was the 33rd anniversary of the return from exile of Iran's then-revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 11:16
Iran's ships stopped from shipping Ukrainian grain
Traders are no longer booking cargoes on Iranian ships to transport grain exports from Ukraine because of difficulties with payments following European Union sanctions on Iran, traders said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 09:30
Iran successfully launches new satellite into orbit
Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 3 / Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/ Iran has successfully launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into orbit by a decree issued by iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, IRNA reported.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 07:51
China intensifies criticism of sanctions on Iran
A top Chinese newspaper stepped up Beijing's opposition to a Western push for tighter sanctions against Iran, warning Friday that tensions over Tehran's nuclear program are hurting energy markets and could stifle the global economic recovery.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 04:02
February brings film festivals from Africa, Iran and the worlds of farms and beer
For a month that boasts fewer days than any other, February is almost comically overstuffed with film festivals on Portland-area screens.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 23:52
Revolutionary art: Iran murals gallery of defiance
In this Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 photo, a mural of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini is seen behind Saint Sarkis church, in Tehran, Iran.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 19:37
Ya'alon: Iran was working on US-range missile
Iran was working on developing a missile with 10,000 km range that would put America in reach of a potential Iranian attack, Strategic Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Thursday.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 15:28