Given his sinister reputation and vociferous contempt for the West, US reporters who interview Hossein Shariatmadari are invariably surprised to find him humble, affable and even “courtly” in person. Surprised because the ultra-radical editor-in-chief of Kayhan, Iran’s most influential pro-regime newspaper, is feared and loathed by many of his compatriots.
Some worry about higher food prices, some fret about overseas travel and others about business, but it is clear that ordinary Iranians are feeling the effects of sanctions imposed over Iran. It surely affects Iran’s traditional Dow Trade with UAE. A photo report.
A Time To Betray is certainly a thriller, with Iranian intelligence always only one step behind Kahlili’s next move. But Kahlili also writes about an idyllic childhood and illustrates the Iran that disappeared after Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution.
According to a report from the Turkish Newspaper Sabah and based on the confessions of a former Segeant, they had killed fourty refugees while escaping (as traffickers) from the Iran-Turkey border and buried them all in one grave.
Saber Feizi, the head of the state-run Telecommunication Company of Iran, shows he doesn’t really understand anything of Internet. Why visit sites abroad when we have Qom, the source of all science?
Osama bin Laden may be the most wanted man on the planet, but Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has an idea where the terrorist leader is holed up: some far cozier setting in Washington, D.C.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX, a member of leadership, penned a letter Thursday to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that Ahmadinejad be barred from entry into the U.S.
Full interview of Mehdi Karroubi with Dieter Bednarz (Spiegel’s Editor) in Tehran…
“Today wherever we go, waves of people express their love for the Islamic Republic and our dear Supreme Leader; even in Europe and the US. If they do away with censorship, it will become clear how the people of the world are enamoured of the Islamic Republic…
Hundreds of Iranians on Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of a failed U.S. military operation to rescue American hostages in Tehran, with prayers and words of defiance for Washington.