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July 2010

07/31/2010The Drumbeats of War with Iran Are Getting Louder

The Drumbeats of War with Iran Are Getting Louder

Dire signs in ramping up of rhetoric, military preparations. [ opinion ] Back in September 2002, Andrew H. Card, George W. Bush's chief of staff, was asked why the Bush...

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07/30/2010Headlines: Iran Ready to Rethink 20 Percent Enrichment

Headlines: Iran Ready to Rethink 20 Percent Enrichment

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

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07/29/2010A Ride Home

A Ride Home

[ dispatch ] My aunt called me in the evening. She had help over, a certain lady, and was wondering if I would drop her off at the metro station....

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07/29/2010A Tourist in Zahedan

A Tourist in Zahedan

[ passport ] If you tell your average Iranian that you want to go Zahedan, chances are they will think you need your head examined. Zahedan is normally associated...

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07/29/2010The Hikers in Iran: One Year Later

The Hikers in Iran: One Year Later

NYT | July 29, 2010 This Saturday will mark the one year anniversary of the detainment and imprisonment of three young Americans in Iran. On July 31, 2009, Shane...

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07/28/2010US Wrestling Team Arrives in Iran

US Wrestling Team Arrives in Iran

Mehr | July 28, 2010 The six-member U.S. freestyle wrestling team arrived Tuesday in Tehran to take part in the Imam-Ali Habibi Cup. The team traveled to Ghaemshahr, 237...

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07/28/2010The Weight of a Brick

The Weight of a Brick

Backbreaking labor for minimal pay defines essential economic sector. Take an open space, flat, an acre or two, with easily excavated soil, with sun-baked, perspiring souls dragging themselves, bent...

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07/27/2010Video: Take It Easy Hospital

Video: Take It Easy Hospital

[ spotlight ] Ash Koshanejad and Negar Shaghaghi, the twin songwriters of Take It Easy Hospital, rose to prominence in director Bahman Ghobadi's film, "No One Knows About Persian...

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07/27/2010Suspected Iran Ties to Extremists

Suspected Iran Ties to Extremists

WSJ | July 27, 2010 Cooperation among Iran, al Qaeda and other Sunni extremist groups is more extensive than previously known to the public, according to details buried in...

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07/27/2010It's a Dog's Life

It's a Dog's Life

A man selling two puppies on the side of the street. Technically pets are illegal in Iran. But that doesn't stop people from buying cats and dogs -- even...

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07/26/2010EU toughens sanctions on Iran; Tehran offers talks

EU toughens sanctions on Iran; Tehran offers talks

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

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07/25/2010The Hidden Imam and His Cult

The Hidden Imam and His Cult

Because of a new injunction by the Suprme Leader, this year's birthday celebrations for the Hidden Imam on July 27 will be a relatively subdued affair. Babak Sarfaraz examines...

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07/24/2010Photo Essay: Tehran Grand Bazaar

Photo Essay: Tehran Grand Bazaar

Tehran Grand Bazaar, 2008. It's hot and the bazaar is packed. It's impossible to take a step without rubbing up against someone. As I make my way, gazing at...

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07/24/2010In This Blind Alley

In This Blind Alley

They smell your mouth Lest you've told someone 'I love you.' They smell your heart These are strange times, my dear Love, they drag out under lampposts to thrash....

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07/23/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read...

07/21/2010Opera: Don Giovanni and the Dream of Freedom

Opera: Don Giovanni and the Dream of Freedom

Transgressive symbol of rebellion against patriarchy relevant as ever. Almost four centuries after the first appearance of the literary figure Don Giovanni, he is more alive than ever in...

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07/21/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

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07/20/2010Crashes Without Consequences

Crashes Without Consequences

Since Iranian aviation's worst summer a year ago, little appears to have changed. On July 15, 2009, Caspian Airlines flight 7908, a Tupelov Tu-154M, departed from Imam Khomeini International Airport...

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07/20/2010Macbeth and the Marks of Violence

Macbeth and the Marks of Violence

Revelatory production of Verdi opera evokes contemporary struggles. I have never understood the charm of Brussels, certainly not its urban architecture, which combines historic monuments with 1980s structures in defiance...

07/20/2010Kayhan: 'What happened? Nothing!'

Kayhan: 'What happened? Nothing!'

Kayhan | On July 18, Kayhan carried the following editorial by Hossein Shariatmadari: It was after the Tehran Friday prayer. I was hurrying to the newspaper when a youth put...

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07/20/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

NYT: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki are caught in the same photo frame in Kabul. Related story here. US watchdog moves to...

07/19/2010Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme

Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme

IPS | Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say...

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07/19/2010A Stained History

A Stained History

Iran, too, suffered for BP's profits, and now is the time for a complicit U.S. to make amends. [ opinion ] Since 2000, BP has run a marketing campaign with...

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07/19/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

07/18/2010Just Like Facebook

Just Like Facebook

[ spotlight ] Tabnak, the news site affiliated with "pragmatic conservative" and presidential nominee Mohsen Rezaie, reported the launch of the first "social networking site dedicated to the lovers...

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07/16/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

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07/16/2010Cinema: Iran: Voices of the Unheard

Cinema: Iran: Voices of the Unheard

"If I sit silently, I have sinned." With these words of Mohammad Mosaddegh's, presented as a small, solitary epigraph against an otherwise uniformly black screen, Iran: Voices of the...

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07/15/2010Was Amiri a Double Agent?

Was Amiri a Double Agent?

Strong reasons to suspect nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, purported defector and self-described kidnap victim, acted at behest of Iranian intelligence. [ analysis ] Early Thursday morning, Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri,...

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07/14/2010Tehran Bazaar Strike Enters Second Week

Tehran Bazaar Strike Enters Second Week

Update: Iran merchants and tax collectors end standoff. Tax protest significant blow to government agenda, says scholar. A large number of shops remain shuttered in the Tehran bazaar, even after...

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07/14/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Iranian nuclear scientist returns home FP | July 14, 2010 The Iranian nuclear scientist who U.S. officials say defected to the United States last year and provided information on Iran's...

07/13/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

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07/12/2010Candidate Obama v President Obama

Candidate Obama v President Obama

On Iran, President Obama should take road less traveled. [ opinion ] Obama's speech prior to signing new Iran sanctions into law was met with rounds of applause and even...

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07/12/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

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07/12/2010'Hejab and Chastity Conference' Passes Quietly

'Hejab and Chastity Conference' Passes Quietly

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cModest-Con 2010www.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full Episodes2010 ElectionFox News While the announcement of the Hejab and Chastity Conference has apparently created quite a stir internationally,...

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07/12/2010The Green Movement and the Working Class

The Green Movement and the Working Class

Translator's Note: Sohrab Behdad is the coauthor with Farhad Nomani of Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter? (Syracuse University Press, 2006). Below is the translation of an...

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07/12/2010Iran's Bazaars, 30 Years On

Iran's Bazaars, 30 Years On

This article was first published by the Middle East Institute in February 2009; the analysis refers to bazaar strikes in October 2008, when the VAT was introduced. Gauging from the...

07/10/2010Anniversary of a Turning Point

Anniversary of a Turning Point

The student uprising of July 9, 1999, and its powerful reverberations. July 9 marked the 11th anniversary of the uprising of Iranian university students that began in the dormitories of...

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07/09/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

07/09/2010Much Ado Over Sanction Vote

Much Ado Over Sanction Vote

Tehran vents, Moscow pretends not to notice. In the month since Russia voted in the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against Iran, Iranian officials have been struggling to maintain good...

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07/08/2010Azad University: A Schooling in Power Politics

Azad University: A Schooling in Power Politics

The Azad University saga. By now, practically everyone in Iran has become aware of the long-simmering battle between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his rivals over the control and status of Azad...

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07/07/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. Click on the link to the story to read it...

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07/07/2010Cooking Up a Dialogue

Cooking Up a Dialogue

Sandwich stand serves a meaty mission. Pittsburgh's Kubideh Kitchen is the latest in a long line of efforts to bridge the cultural divide between Iran and America. The first in...

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07/06/2010The Islamic Republic's Inner Mossaddegh

The Islamic Republic's Inner Mossaddegh

[ comment ] Since the 1979 Revolution, Iran has been a pariah in the community of nations. The regime's unqualified support of Hamas and Hezbollah, penchant for political repression, and...

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07/06/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Further restrictions on Iran Air in new EU blacklist Telegraph | July 6, 2010 All except 23 of the Tehran-based carrier's 64 aircraft are now banned from entering EU airspace....

07/04/2010Remembering Iran Air Flight 655

Remembering Iran Air Flight 655

[ comment ] On July 3, 1988, an Iranian aircraft registered on the radar screen of the USS Vincennes. The U.S. Navy officers on the bridge identified the approaching aircraft...

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07/04/2010SPECIAL REPORT: Your Veil is a Battleground II

SPECIAL REPORT: Your Veil is a Battleground II

Increasing numbers of Iranian women resist the veil, as hardliners search for enforcers. Part One | Part Two: 'Your Veil Is a Battleground' In the last two and a half...

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07/03/2010SPECIAL REPORT: Your Veil is a Battleground I

SPECIAL REPORT: Your Veil is a Battleground I

Hejab Politics: Old Hat and New Increasing numbers of Iranian women resist the veil, as hardliners search for enforcers. As the Islamic Republic of Iran's domestic and international problems...

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07/03/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Mother of Two Faces Stoning for Alleged Adultery ICHR | July 3, 2010 The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran appealed to the Iranian Judiciary to halt the execution...

07/01/2010Selected Headlines

Selected Headlines

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...

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