US journalist could apply for amnesty, says Iran’s attorney general (EARTHtimes.org)
Tehran – Iran’s attorney general suggested Wednesday that Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi could apply for amnesty, ISNA news agency reported. Ghorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi said that Saberi could apply for amnesty from Supreme Leader Ayatolla…
Iran’s Jewish Rorschach Test – Forward
This past March, I stood alongside hundreds of others lining Madison Avenue to watch New York’s Persian Day Parade. I am not the parade-watching type, but nostalgia for the country of my birth at times moves me to behave in uncharacteristic ways …
Congress looks to bolster Iran sanctions (AP via Yahoo! News)
Congress is taking up a bipartisan proposal which would give the Obama administration more leverage over Iran by toughening economic sanctions on foreign oil and shipping firms that aid Tehran.
$20b transited goods via Iran in calendar year (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) – More than $19.9 billion worth of goods weighing some 5.8 million tons were transited via Iran in the last Iranian calendar year (ended March 20, 2009), showing a 35 percent growth compared with the figure for the preceding year.
My Encounter with Iran (Payvand Iran News)
Mainstream media in the United States portrays Iran as the raised clenched fist and misguidedly, the masses buy this distorted picture as gospel. For the past six weeks I have met, dined, danced, cried and laughed with Iranians. I am a short fifty-plus, blue eyed American woman who has yet to feel any fear or unease on Iranian soil. -Karla Hansen
What’s Next For Iranian-American Journalist Roxana Saberi? Iran Denies She is on Hunger Strike (Payvand Iran News)
“It depends on political dealings, it depends on the will of those who have detained her,” says Sadegh Zibakalam, a professor of political science at Tehran University who has been following the case closely. “It depends on the future of U.S.-Iran relations and many other parameters that will play a role in her case.”
Iran’s annual pistachio exports exceed $700m (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) – Iran’s value of pistachio exports stood at $721 million in the last Iranian calendar year (ended March 20, 2009), showing a 43 percent fall compared to the year before.
Ari Shavit / Obama in 2012, after he fails to deal with Iran – Haaretz.com
Even now, in November 2012, it is hard not to think back with elation on Barack Obama’s first year as president of the United States. In his first 100 days in the White House, the energetic president took a series of daring steps that extricated the …
Iran rejects missile attack by US-Israel against navy ship (Payvand Iran News)
An official of Iranian armed forcec denied the report of missile attack by Israel or U.S. against an Iranian navy ship. The official speaking on the condition of unanimity, said the report is in line with psychological warfare of foreigners against Iran and is fully baseless.
Hawks soften rhetoric on Iran (Asia Times)
WASHINGTON – As the White House prepares the ground for direct diplomacy with Iran on a handful of issues, a group of Iran hawks gathered in Washington to discuss their views on how to handle what they describe as a “series of provocative actions” by Tehran beyond its ongoing nuclear development.
Iran says US journalist could ask for amnesty: report (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said on Wednesday jailed US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi should appeal to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei if she wants to be pardoned, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iran denies jailed US journalist on hunger strike (The Indiana Gazette)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian judiciary official denied that the American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. is on a hunger strike and said Tuesday that she is in “good condition.”
