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Date: Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:47 PM
Subject: RFE/RL Iran Report - August 12, 2010
From: <listmanager@list.rferl.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:47 PM
Subject: RFE/RL Iran Report - August 12, 2010
 RFE/RL Iran Report 8/12/2010 7:36:20 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Iran. For more stories on Iran, please visit and bookmark our Iran page . |
 Azerbaijani Scientist Released From Iranian Prison An Azerbaijani scientist has arrived in Baku after being released from an Iranian jail after serving a two-year sentence for espionage. More  Iran Puts New 'Restrictions' On Returning Expats The Iranian government has set new restrictions on Iranian expatriates coming into the country. More  Admiration For A 61-Year-Old Postelection Detainee A popular blogger, "Agh Bahman," has written a tribute to hunger striking prisoner Keyvan Samimi. More  Lawyers: Stoning Defendant 'Tortured' To Confess With her face blurred and her words voiced over to translate them into Farsi from Azeri, it was not immediately possible to independently verify that the woman making the confession was Ashtiani, or whether she had been mistreated to extract the confession. More  The Language Of Ahmadinejad: 'The Bogeyman Snatched The Boob' In a harangue delivered to Iranian expatriates visiting Tehran last week, Mahmud Ahmadinejad resorted to an odd turn of phrase to describe the futility of Washington's use of threats and allegations against Iran. "The bogeyman snatched the boob," the Iranian president declared. More  What Net Neutrality Means In Uzbekistan The U.S. debate about net neutrality -- whether ISPs can discriminate against certain types of content -- has been anything but sensible, with no shortage of hyperbole from both sides. What is a complex, legitimate, and healthy debate about regulation and the opaque and sometimes byzantine deals between ISPs and content providers has been reduced to a standoff between proponents of a "public" Internet and evil corporations bent on controlling your favorite blog. More  Video Shows Dozens Of Graves To Bury 'Invading Troops' In Iran Iran's semi-official hardline Fars news agency, which is said to have ties to the Revolutionary Guard, has posted a video of what it says are graves for forces that would invade Iran. The video emerges days after he chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said that the U.S. military has a contingency plan to attack Iran. More  Iran Accuses Exiled Lawyer In Stoning Case Of Financial Fraud Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has said that a human rights lawyer who fled Iran last month, charging that officials were harassing him for his vigorous defense of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, is accused of "financial fraud." More  Iranian Band Abjeez Says Supreme Leader's Dismissal Of Music 'Ridiculous' Melody and Safoura Safavi, two sisters from the Iranian band Abjeez (which is Persian slang for sisters), talked about Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's condemnation of music as part of a wider RFE/RL interview on the role of music in Iran. Abjeez is known for its rebellious, humorous lyrics, and unique style mixing Iranian soul with world pop. The interview was conducted by RFE/RL correspondent Kristin Deasy. More  Interview: 'Many Americans Love Rumi...But They Prefer He Not Be Muslim' Ibrahim Gamard is a California-based sheikh of the Sufi Mevlevi order and has spent his life translating the poetry of the 13th-century Sufi mystic, Rumi. Murtazali Dugrichilov of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service spoke to Gamard about why Rumi is so popular in the West and the problems of modern-day Sufism. More  Iranian Small Business Squeezed By Ahmadinejad's Policies Even as the latest sanctions against Iran create new hardships for the country's economy, most Iranians outside the government seem to place the blame for the situation on President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's uncompromising policies, even as officials try mightily to ignore or downplay the effects. More  Radio Farda An Agent Of The West's 'Soft War' Against Iran, Book Says A book published by Iran's Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry has defined RFE/RL's Persian-language outlet, Radio Farda, as part of a Western "cultural invasion" of the Islamic republic. More  Jailed Photojournalist Released After Hunger Strike Babak Bordbar, a photojournalist who was jailed in Iran in last year's postelection crackdown, has been released from prison. More  Wife Of Lawyer In Stoning Case Released The wife of Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who served as legal defense for a woman sentenced to death by stoning, has been released from prison. More |
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