 RFE/RL Iran Report 7/23/2010 6:39:11 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Iran. For more stories on Iran, please visit and bookmark our Iran page . |
 Iran Relocates Government Employees The Iranian cabinet has passed legislation forbidding the creation of new government posts in Tehran and instructing other employees to relocate. More  Iranian Labor Activist Freed A spokesman for Tehran's municipal bus-service union has been released from prison on bail. More  Official: Iran Faces Rise In HIV/AIDS Cases Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi says the spread of HIV/AIDS is increasingly being spread in Iran through sexual contact. More  Iranian Conservatives Unite In Bid To Undermine Ahmadinejad Conservative opponents of Iran's president, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, have launched a rearguard action aimed at weakening him and preventing one of his hard-line followers from succeeding him in the next presidential election. More  Blaming Outsiders Won’t Solve Iran's Baluchistan Problem Problems in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan Province have exposed three stark fault lines within the Iranian political system: national-ethnic, Shi’ite-Sunni, and center-periphery. Over the last three decades, the government has done little for the country’s ethnic and religious minorities. More  You Can Tell Web Censorship Is Really Bad In Iran... ...When even websites based inside the country and close to the establishment provide users with antifiltering tools. More  Interview: Amiri 'Was Not Who He Pretended He Was' Amir Farshad Ebrahimi -- an Iranian journalist, former member of the Basij militia, and founding member of hard-line pressure group Ansar-e Hizbullah -- has claimed on his blog that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri contacted him last year and asked for help in defecting to the West. More  Iran's Ethnic Azeris And The Language Question Call it discrimination or even chauvinism: Millions of Iran's ethnic Azeris have no right of education in their mother tongue. But, surprisingly, it appears the majority of them don't care much about this inequality. More  Campaign Backs Student Photographer Arrested Over Protest Pix More than 70 award winning Iranian university graduates have called for the release of one of their friends and colleagues, photographer Hamed Saber, who was jailed approximately one month ago apparently over pictures he took at last year's street demonstrations protesting the reelection of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. More  Blogger: People Are Victims Of A 'Bloody Game' One of the first bloggers in Sistan- Baluchistan, Amin Sabeti tells RFE/RL that the attacks there have caused shock and grief among the local population. He says the government response is likely to backfire More  ‘Weren’t The Sanctions Not Supposed To Hurt Ordinary Iranians?’ ETS, the U.S.-based organization that administers the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and other exams, has said on its website that it is suspending temporarily registration in Iran as a result of the UN resolution affecting banks and financial institutions that do business with Iran. More  Iranian Bloggers: Amiri Was A Double Agent A number of Iranian bloggers have cast doubt on the claims made by Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, including his claims of being abducted by U.S. secret agents and the reason he returned to Iran. |
