Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Golden Lion winner denied the right to leave Iran to attend this year's festival despite being released from jailThe Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been denied the right to attend this year's Venice international film festival. Due to open the short film section of the festival with The Accordion, his request was refused by officials in Tehran.Imprisoned earlier this year while making a film described by Iranian culture minister, Mohammad Hosseini, as "anti-regime", Panahi was released on bail in May following a two-week hunger strike and international outcry.But his freedom does not appear to extend to the right to promote his work elsewhere. "Despite having been released, I am still not free to travel outside my country to attend film festivals," the director explained.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters * Need to ensure Baluchistan not forgotten * Disgusting situation at relief camps * One million displaced (For more Pakistan stories, click or http://link.reuters.com/kac58m) By ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Having taken home the best actress award at Cannes for her role in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche talks to Catherine Shoard about the importance of originality and the fallout from her acceptance speech, in which she highlighted the plight of Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was jailed for criticising the stateCatherine ShoardHenry Barnes
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters BAGHDAD, Sept 2 (Reuters) - At least 10 Iranian pilgrims were killed and 33 others wounded when their bus overturned and caught fire in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - Iran's Judiciary should ensure that human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari receives a fair trial, Human Rights Watch said today, including full access to a lawyer, adequate time to ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Government says it hopes junk will be sunk by rules on new numbers, but critics fear more monitoring of citizensChina began requiring identification from anyone buying a new mobile phone number today in what it says is a bid to stamp out junk messages.But critics say the move gives the government a new tool for monitoring its citizens.The rules apply to everyone, including foreigners visiting the country for a short stay, the China Daily newspaper reported.The paper said the regulation was "the latest campaign by the government to curb the global scourge of spam, pornographic messages and fraud on cellular phones".Low-cost mobile phone sim cards are readily available in China, at convenience stores, newspaper stands and airport kiosks.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Former prime minister says it is wholly unacceptable for Tehran to seek nuclear weapons capabilityThe west should use force against Iran if it "continues to develop nuclear weapons", Tony Blair said today, aligning himself with US hawks who have called for strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.The former prime minister made his comments in a BBC interview to publicise his memoirs, A Journey, which are published today.Blair said it was "wholly unacceptable" for Tehran to seek a nuclear weapons capability and insisted there could be "no alternative" to military force "if they continue to develop nuclear weapons".
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: iran | Iran sought to distance itself yesterday from harsh remarks by a hardline newspaper , which called France's First Lady a "prostitute" for condemning the stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: iran | A hard-line Iranian newspaper has called the French first lady a "prostitute" and recommended she be put to death for supporting a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for adultery
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | From banking to foxhunting, the former prime minister gives his views on his choices when in powerOn the banks crisis'The biggest danger was a view that people would want the state to come back into fashion – I didn't think that'On the third way'I'm still a third way advocate "¦ not in favour of either the big state or the minimal state'On Gordon Brown'Look, towards the end it got extremely difficult and there's no point denying that'On Iran'I would not take a risk of them getting nuclear weapons capability. I wouldn't take it'On Iraq deaths'Do they really suppose I don't care "¦ don't regret with every fibre of my being'On Labour'I feel the most enormous debt of gratitude to the party and huge loyalty to it.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: iran | Iran sought to distance itself yesterday from harsh remarks by a hardline newspaper , which called France's First Lady a "prostitute" for condemning the stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | In an emotional chapter in his memoirs on the Iraq war, the former prime minister insists that military action was justifiedTony Blair admits that Britain and the US failed to anticipate, after the invasion of Iraq, "the nightmare that unfolded" as al-Qaida and Iran destabilised the country after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.In an emotional chapter in his memoirs on the Iraq war, in which he admits to shedding many tears at the loss of so many lives, the former prime minister insists that military action was justified and refuses to offer an apology for joining forces with George Bush."I can't regret the decision to go to war," he writes in A Journey. But he adds: "I can say that never did I guess the nightmare that unfolded, and that too is part of the responsibility.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Her son Sajad says she was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday and visits by her family and lawyer have been deniedSakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, was told on Saturday that she was to be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but the sentence was not carried out, it emerged tonight.Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison just before the call to morning prayer, when she expected to be led to the gallows, her son Sajad told the Guardian."Pressure from the international community has so far stopped them from carrying out the sentence but they're killing her every day by any means possible," he said.The mock execution came days after prison authorities denied family and legal visits to Mohammadi Ashtiani.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Months of fruitless negotiations to form a government reveals Iranian influence isn't as great as thought but still worries regionIn mid-August, the leaders of Iraq's Shia political blocs were summoned to Tehran for what amounted to a reprimand. Invitations were sent to all the parties that contested the 7 March general election except one – Ayad Allawi's.It was the third such group visit in six months of fruitless negotiations to form a government. And, as had happened on the two previous trips, the Iranians thought they had reached understandings that would either return Nouri al-Maliki for a second term as prime minister or nominate someone from his inner court to replace him.Again, Iran was left disappointed. And it found itself in strange company.
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: iran | TEHRAN - An influential Iranian state-run newspaper on Tuesday reiterated and expanded on its earlier derogatory remarks about French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, spurring Iran's Foreign Ministry to warn news media to refrain from insulting foreign dignitaries.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: iran | An Iranian newspaper with close ties to the country's leader has called Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a "prostitute" who "deserves to die" for to joining a campaign to save the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to die by stoning.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: iran | France's foreign ministry says "insults" in Iran's media aimed at France's first lady, Carla Bruni, are "unacceptable".
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters TEHRAN, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Iranian paramilitaries surrounded the house of leading opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi on Tuesday to prevent the cleric from participating in a religious ceremony, his ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Iran's Kurdish insurgency brings troop mobilisation along borders with Iraq and TurkeyAfter driving for two hours along the rocky road that winds up into Mount Qandil in northern Iraq, our vehicle stopped. Five Kurds in combat gear with rifles emerged from a stone house.Among them was Sherzad Kemanger, 35, an Iranian Kurd, the military leader of the Free Life party of Iranian Kurdistan, PJAK. It is considered to be the Iranian branch of the Kurdistan Worker's party, PKK. Since 2004, PJAK has been fighting the Iranian regime in the country's western provinces.Iran's Guardians of the Islamic Revolution have been mobilised along the borders with Iraq and Turkey since 2008.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Keyhan daily attacked French first lady after she condemned stoning sentence against woman convicted of adulteryThe Iranian government today urged the country's media to refrain from insults after a hardline newspaper twice described Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's first lady, as a "prostitute".The Keyhan daily paper made the comments after Bruni-Sarkozy condemned the stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery.Ramin Mehmanparast, a foreign ministry spokesman, said insulting foreign dignitaries was incorrect and was not officially sanctioned.The paper first called Bruni-Sarkozy a prostitute on Saturday and repeated the comment today.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters * Three high-ranking judicial officials suspended * First time in history of judiciary that judges suspended TEHRAN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Iranian MPs have praised the judiciary for suspending ...
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: iran | An Iranian newspaper has called France's first lady Carla Bruni a 'prostitute', reports the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: iran | Iranian state media called France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a "prostitute" on Monday in an unusual attack on the wife of a world leader that shows deep anger over her support for an Iranian woman who faced death by stoning for adultery.
Feed: Asia Times | Search phrase: iran | For all the heated and unresolved debate among Iran's political factions over how to handle the United States, it boils down to the question of whether to talk or not to talk to Uncle Sam. After several rounds of bilateral and multilateral negotiations, more talks are not "mission impossible". In the run-up to next month's United Nations General Assembly meeting, Tehran's main concern is not to look too defensive.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Many think Iran was the biggest beneficiary of the 2003 Iraq war – but they forget it is Iraq that has democracyMany people argue the biggest winner of the 2003 Iraq war is neighbouring Iran. The American-led forces removed one of Iran's bitterest enemies, Saddam Hussein, and paved the way for successive Shia-dominated governments in Baghdad. The Iranians have not shied away from interfering in domestic Iraqi affairs and the power vacuum created by the American administration in Iraq gave them ample room to flex their muscles.Several Shia political parties have been established and funded in Tehran, or have been given safe haven in Iran.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters * Iraq more robust, but still prone to foreign meddling * Iran can't call all the shots even as U.S. combat ops end * Turkey emerges as counterweight, champions Sunni inclusion By Alistair ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters * Early test for talks in Sept. 26 deadline on settlements * Netanyahu's coalition may fray as elections draw closer * Iranian atomic clock looms large for Israel By Arshad Mohammed and Andrew ...
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: iran | A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Iran on Friday has killed three people and wounded another 21, an Iranian news agency reported Saturday.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: iran | Britons love animals - as long as they're cute cats or dogsMary Bale was offered police protection. The kind of thing you get if you've grassed up a gangster, or are a wrongly outed paedo. There was an urgent plea for locals in Coventry not to "take matters into their own hands". What does it say about Britain, or perhaps more specifically about Facebook, that people can offer violence against a grey-haired woman with an admittedly rococo sense of humour who, after stroking a cat called Lola, suddenly decided, "for fun", to drop her into a waiting wheelie bin?She thought the cat could "clamber out", which is a bit idiotic – wheelie bins are hard enough to open from the outside, with hands – but still does not explain the thousands of postings of online vitriol.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: iran | The Iranian woman awaiting possible execution by stoning was denied visits from her family and attorney this week, just days after her lawyer's home was ransacked and searched.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters TEHRAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Investigations into spying allegations against three American hikers detained in Iran will be completed soon, Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said in a news report on ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters (Adds details) TEHRAN, Aug 27 (Reuters) - An earthquake shook an area in northern Iran on Friday, causing damage in three villages and injuring three people, state television reported. Iran's ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 rattled northern Iran on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was centered about 95 miles (150 km) south of the ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: iran | Source: Reuters * Suspect arrested in U.S. Pacific territory of Guam * Had pleaded guilty to violating U.S.-Iran embargo * U.S. says exported commodities could have military use MIAMI, Aug 27 (Reuters) - A ...
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