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It is little surprise that Baloch nationalist leaders have rejected the latest peace package  proposed by Islamabad A series of massacres of peaceful protesters by [Read More…]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s insurance regulator plans to take steps Wednesday to

pressure insurance companies into ending any financial relationship they have with Iran.

A state law that took effect last year outlaws direct investments in Iran by California-based

The US Department of the Treasury today took further action to implement existing sanctions against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by designating a general and four companies affiliated with the IRGC, pursuant to Executive Order 13382. This Executive
Order freezes the assets of designated proliferators of weapons of mass destruction

Iran being one of the most discussed topic in 2009 and likely 2010 as well, its international

defiance and its internal disarray, has prompted a number of prominent centres and scholars to

Vice President Biden — who was for the Iraq war before he was against it, and who then argued that the surge could never work before he decided (in retrospect) that it did — said this to Larry King on Wednesday night: 

It’s not that unusual to hear hostile remarks directed at the United States from the Iranian 

regime — but lately, it’s been getting not only personal but frankly contemptuous. Iranian 

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki recently let it be known that “we do not take

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities have conducted a series of arrests against

alleged opposition activists before expected protest rallies during events to mark the

anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the country’s top police official said Wednesday.

As Scene from the Rugged Kurdistan Mountains

Whether Gorran can succeed in cleaning up government is unclear as the Kurdish security forces

are still ruled over by the two old-line parties and Gorran activists have already come under
 

Present Speaker of Parliament, Kemal Kirkuki

“Rojnama,” a weekly Kurdish newspaper based in Suleimaniya city that is associated with the

Iran has been rocked by street unrest since its disputed presidential election last June. 

Internet messages have circulated about new protests on Feb. 11, when Iran marks the 31st

anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.