Iran is putting its foot down on one of its most pressing issues – the name of the gulf that the country borders.
To the Arab countries in the south, it is the Arabian Gulf. To the Iranians, it is the Persian Gulf.
The Islamic Games were cancelled a month ago because of the dispute, but now the [...]

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Iran wants to be compensated for World War II. Actually, both World Wars, but the major claim is against the British, Americans and Soviets from 1941 onward.
Iran was occupied by the British and Soviets after Iran declared its neutrality, but Iran can hardly declare itself as a victimized nation on the scale of Europe, Asia [...]

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What country do you think this picture represents?
Egypt? Tunisia? Yemen?
None of these.
Try Bolivia.
Those women in the hijabs are not Muslims either. They are Catholics.
Iran generously provided $1.2 million in funding for a hospital in El Alto, but there was one catch. The women who worked at the new hospital were required to wear hijabs.
Bolivian President [...]

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Do you remember last week’s story about the Bulgarian scientist who claimed that aliens were here, and that he was trying to communicate with them by reading crop circles?
If you don’t recall, here is the link to the story.
The whole story was odd, but one of the odder parts was that the aliens do not [...]

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Iranian police are confronting that country’s morality problems head on. Shopkeepers have been warned to cover up their mannequins or else.
The new rules require the mannequins to wear a hijab and not show bodily curves.
Reuters reported:
“Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without Hijabs (Muslim veil) are prohibited to be used [...]

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Last week, a pro-Palestinian rally staged by the Iranian government was countered by an anti-government rally. In their demonstration, the protesters shouted chants criticizing their governments allegiance with Hamas and Hezbollah.
The reason for the hatred for these organizations in the streets of Tehran is that the government used both Hamas and Hezbollah to help crush [...]

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Iran may become the site of Islam’s first legally sanctioned transgender marriage. While homosexuality is considered a sin in the Islamic Republic, transexuality is seen an illness with a cure. The cure in the eyes of the hard line Muslim clerics is to turn gays into women and lesbians into men.
Iran performs more transgender operations than [...]

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Some are criticizing Robert Gibbs for saying that the Obama administration recognizes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as “the elected leader” of Iran. Of course, this is being considered a surrender to the Iranians so negotiations can proceed on nuclear weapons and a number of issues.
However, if you listen carefully, the question posed to Gibbs was if the U.S. [...]

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Anyone who doubts that the Iranian regime is anything but unholy and inhumane needs to read this article in The Jerusalem Post.
A member of the Basij militia recounted how he had helped break up street protests in the last few weeks. He eventually got into trouble with his superiors and detained because he let a [...]

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Amir Sadeghi, a prominent photojournalist and publisher of the popular Tehranlive.org blog, was released yesterday after being arrested and held most of the last week.
Amir’s photographs of the protests have provided a powerful and visible presence of what is happening in Iran to the outside world. The last week had people throughout the world massing [...]

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