 RFE/RL Iran Report 10/29/2010 5:50:05 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Iran. For more stories on Iran, please visit and bookmark our Iran page . |
| The Boy Who Fell In Love With A TV Heroine In a blog post titled "From Here and There,” blogger Zeitoon (Olive) writes about a young Iranian who fell in love with the heroine of a tele-novela: More  Secret Executions 'Increasing' In Iran The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) says the number of unannounced executions at the Vakilabad prison in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad has increased. More  Iran Charges Two 'Israeli Spies' Tehran's chief prosecutor says two Iranians have been charged with spying for Israel about Iran's nuclear program. More An Iranian student has protested against what is being described as a shortage of gasoline by riding a donkey to his university in northern Iran. More  Iranian Officials Renew Warnings Over 'Soft War' Iranian officials have upped the ante in their efforts to counter the "soft war" they believe is being waged against their country. More  “One Day We Will Be Spontaneous” An Iranian blogger reacts to the supreme leader's "spontaneous" welcome in Qom. More  Wife Appeals For Web Designer Husband Jailed In Iran Said Malekpour is a metallurgical-engineering graduate of Tehran's Sharif Industrial University who started to work as a web designer in Canada in 2005. Hewas taken into custody upon his return to Iran in 2008. More  Armenia, Iran Pursue Economic Ties Armenia and Iran pledged to boost economic ties as Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian paid a visit to Tehran this week. More Iran's Regional Money Bags The disclosure that Iran has been passing large sums of money in plastic bags to an aide of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has caused consternation in Washington, where it is seen as evidence of the Islamic republic's malign influence. More  Jailed Iran Lawyer 'Ends Hunger Strike' Jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been visited by her sister and has called off her month-long hunger strike. More  How WikiLeaks Makes Confrontation With Iran More Likely WikiLeaks will indeed "change" opinions. But they should not alter them in the pacifistic way Assange desires. More  'Tehran Is Unbearable Without Khamenei' Blogger Hadi Sajadpour from “The Notebook Without Lines” is longing for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to return to the Iranian capital from his visit to Qom. More Iran's Establishment And Citizen Journalism The citizen journalism the Iranian establishment is promoting is likely to be tightly monitored and subject to censorship in case the content citizens send happens to contain material considered damaging to the government. More  Exhibition Of Persian Epic Opens At Smithsonian "The Shahnameh," or “Book of Kings,” is regarded as a crowning achievement of Persian literature and art, combining history and myth, and crafting a national narrative in more than 100,000 lines. To mark the millennial anniversary of the work, some 20 rare, illuminated pages will go on display at Washington's Smithsonian Institution. More |
