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Iran’s telecommunications agency plans to block Gmail in favor of an upcoming domestic e-mail service, according to the Wall Street Journal.

KIRKUK, Iraq – The election hopes of Kurdish voters in Kirkuk rest on a neurologist with a US nationality, whose mission is to win control of the disputed, ethnically-mixed oil-rich province.

Iranian authorities have banned a reformist daily newspaper and a moderate weekly magazine run by the family of Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader, Iran’s news agency says.

  The Iranian director Jafar Panahi has reportedly been detained by security forces in his homeland. Panahi, 49, is a vocal supporter of theopposition leader [Read More…]

The lobby group that claimed credit for Caterpillar’s reversal, United Against Nuclear Iran, has turned up the heat recently on U.S. and European companies. The group is led by a number of former Democratic and Republican national-security officials, including R. James
Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Bill

TEHRAN, March 1 (UPI) — Sunni militant group Jundallah pledged to step up attacks on Tehran as new leadership emerges in the wake of a high-profile capture for Iran last week.

  Iran is not co-operating with the UN nuclear watchdog’s investigation into the country’s nuclear programme, the new head of the agency has said. Iran’s [Read More…]

26 Feb 2010 – Medya News – As part of its study of the region, the Middle East Institute (MEI) has scheduled to host three Iranian Kurdish experts to discuss Iranian Kurds past, present and future within Iran.

WASHINGTON — Washington has rejected accusations by Iran of U.S. backing for a Sunni Muslim rebel group whose leader was arrested in Iran this week.

(RTTNews) –  The United States Thursday said growing closeness between Syria and Iran witnessed during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Syria was undermining Damascus’ position in the Middle East.