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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Palestinian Hamas militants are serving as the "proxy warriors" for an Iran bent on destroying Israel and destabilizing the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here. In a speech Tuesday to the American Jewish Committee in Washington that underscored growing US concerns about Tehran Rice mentioned Iran as not just a threat in the Palestinian territories, but also in Lebanon, Iraq and even in Afghanistan
World Jewish Congress head wants Swiss to cancel Iran deal1 comments - published on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By ELIANE ENGELER, Associated Press Writer BERN, Switzerland - The president of the World Jewish Congress said Tuesday that Switzerland should cancel a multibillion-dollar contract to buy natural gas from Iran because the deal will strengthen an Islamic regime that is a threat to Israel and the U.S
Gates says 2nd carrier in Gulf is 'reminder' to Iran0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a "reminder" to Iran, but he said it's not an escalation of force.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with Mexican leaders, Gates said heightening U.S. criticism of Iran and its support for terror groups is not a signal that the administration is laying the groundwork for a strike against Tehran.
Iran says Iraq situation makes U.S. attack unlikely0 comments - published on Sunday, April 27, 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday a "disastrous situation" facing the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan coupled with Washington's domestic issues made any U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic unlikely.The Foreign Ministry comments came two days after the U.S. Navy said a cargo ship hired by the U.S. military fired warning shots at approaching boats in the Gulf, underscoring tension in an area vital to world oil shipments, and driving up crude prices.
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's toy market is being inundated by models of Barbie, Batman, Spiderman and Harry Potter and the young must be protected from their harmful cultural effects, the prosecutor general was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Sarah Baxter in Washington
America's top military officer has ratcheted up the pressure on Iran by issuing an unusual public warning that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action". Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, blamed the Iranian government and Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard for its "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq. He said conflict with Iran would be "extremely stressing" for America's overstretched forces, but added: "It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability."
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran has agreed to answer contentions stemming from American and other intelligence reports that it studied how to design nuclear weapons, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday.
By AP/JULIA ZAPPEI Malaysia) — Iran has been kicked out of an international defense show in Malaysia for exhibiting missile equipment in violation of U.N. rules, an official said Thursday.
GENEVA (AFP) - Switzerland said on Wednesday it had frozen the assets of a further 12 Iranian companies in accordance with new United Nations sanctions aimed at stopping Tehran's alleged nuclear programme. The 12 companies, and 13 individuals, have been added to an existing blacklist of 23 companies and 27 people. ]
Iran agrees to discuss alleged nuclear weapons program0 comments - published on Thursday, April 24, 2008
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency on Wednesday announced what it called a "milestone" agreement with Iran that aims to provide answers about allegations that Tehran tried to develop nuclear weapons. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen and his team had agreed with Iran to start a process aiming to clarify the issue in May.
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.
U.N. official ends Iran nuclear talks with no details0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog's top investigator ended two days of talks with Iranian officials on Tuesday that sought explanations of Western intelligence that suggested Iran secretly studied how to design nuclear bombs.
Russian shipment for Iranian nuclear plant blocked0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
By AIDA SULTANOVABAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijan halted a Russian shipment of equipment intended for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, demanding more information for fear of violating United Nations sanctions, officials said Monday.
The Russian state-run company Atomstroiexport said one or two trucks carrying the equipment were stopped two weeks ago at the town of Astara, on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border.
Iran women activists get suspended lashing sentences0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 By Fredrik Dahl TEHRAN (Reuters) - Three Iranian women's rights campaigners have received suspended lashing and jail sentences for taking part in a rally, a fellow activist said on Tuesday.It was the latest sign of the authorities clamping down on activists demanding greater women's rights in the conservative Islamic Republic, which rejects Western accusations it is discriminating against women.
Gates calls Iran 'hell bent' on getting nuclear arms0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 The Associated PressBy ROBERT BURNS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he believes Iran is "hell bent" on acquiring nuclear weapons, but he warned in strong terms of the consequences of going to war over that."Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need and, in fact, I believe it would be disastrous on a number of levels," he said in a speech he was delivering Monday evening at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
Japan to freeze assets tied to Iran nuclear program0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 By Takashi Hirokawa and Toko SekiguchiApril 22 (Bloomberg) -- Japan will freeze assets belonging to 12 organizations and 13 people that are tied to Iran's nuclear development, the government's top spokesman said. The action is based on a United Nations Security Council resolution, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura told reporters in Tokyo.
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economy minister stepped down on Tuesday in the latest change to his cabinet but there remained confusion over the fate of his interior minister.Economy and Finance Minister Davoud Danesh Jaafari was to hand over his post in a formal ceremony later Tuesday to his successor, the head of the government's economic commission, Hossein Samsani, the state news agency IRNA reported
By Haaretz Correspondent and AP , By Barak Ravid Italy is expected to join a European Union consensus on Iran's nuclear program, after dropping earlier objections last week, possibly paving the way for new sanctions, a government official in Jerusalem said. Outgoing Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is expected to announce Rome's new position at an EU Council of Ministers meeting at the end of April, the Israeli said.
Flogging and Prison Sentences for Women's Rights Activistsاحکام شکنجه و زندان برای فعالان حقوق زنان0 comments - published on Monday, April 21, 2008
"These flogging sentences are in violation of Iran's international obligations and amount to state-sponsored torture. There is no basis for these prosecutions," the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran stated.
(April 22, 2008) The Iranian Judiciary has issued flogging and prison sentences for four campaigners for women's rights, thus continuing its program of harassment and prosecution of the women's rights movement. "These flogging sentences are in violation of Iran's international obligations and amount to state-sponsored torture. There is no basis for these prosecutions," the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran stated. On April 19, 2008, Branch 13 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court sentenced Nasrin Afzali to 10 lashes and a six- month suspended prison sentence, in effect for two years. Afzali's lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaii, told the Meydaan website that during her trial on March 12, 2008, the judge issued his sentence although no evidence was presented relating to the charge of "disturbing the public order" brought against her. Security forces detained Afzali along with 32 other women on March 4, 2006, during a gathering of women's rights activists in support of five of their prosecuted colleagues.
The same court also sentenced another activist, Nahid Jaafari, to 10 lashes and a six- month suspended prison sentence on the same charges on April 21, 2008. Branch 16 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court sentenced Zeinab Peyghambarzadeh, a sociology student at Tehran University and women's rights activist, to a two- year suspended prison sentence on March 29, 2008. She was also suspended for two semesters from continuing her education by the university's Disciplinary Committee. Another activist, Marzieh Mortazi Langaroudi, also detained on March 4, 2006, was sentenced to 10 lashes and a six- month suspended imprisonment on March 29, 2008."These systematic prosecutions and heavy sentences are being issued without any evidence and due process. The courts have become a vehicle for intimidating the women's rights movement to put an end to their peaceful activities," the Campaign said. BACK >>Flogging and Prison Sentences for Women's Rights Activists
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Terry Macalister The Guardian
Shell has been warned by Iran that it must commit itself to developing a $10bn (£5bn) gas field in the turbulent Middle East country by June or risk the project being handed over to a rival.Europe's largest oil and gas company has delayed making a final decision on the grounds of soaring costs but also in the knowledge that a decisive move would put it in political conflict with Washington at a time of mounting tension over Tehran's uranium enrichment programme
HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — An Afghan teacher was killed in a clash between Afghan and Iranian border guards over a small piece of land on the frontier, Afghanistan's interior ministry said.Two Iranian guards were also wounded in the clash Saturday, it said, adding the fighting started after Iranian border security forces entered the western province of Nimroz."An Afghan civilian who was a teacher was killed in a clash between Afghan and Iranian
Muslim reformer's 'heresy': The Islamic state is a dead end0 comments - published on Sunday, April 20, 2008
Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim has seen what can happen to an Islamic reformer: His mentor was executed in 1985 in Sudan; he himself had to flee the country. Still, the self-described "Muslim heretic" has no trouble traveling the Islamic world spreading his controversial message: There is no such thing as an Islamic state.
A secular state and human rights are essential for all societies so that Muslims and others can practice their faith freely, he tells his co-religionists.
Iran foreign ministry backs Ahmadinejad Sept 11 doubts0 comments - published on Sunday, April 20, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry on Sunday backed the doubts expressed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejed about the accepted version of the September 11, 2001 attacks, saying there were "many ambiguities." Ahmadinejad last week caused controversy when he described the airborne attacks on New York and Washington by Al-Qaeda militants as a "suspect event" and cast doubt on the strikes in three speeches within the space of eight days
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran accused U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of "Iranophobia" on Sunday for trying to blame Tehran for Iraq's security problems.
Rice said last week she would press Iraq's Arab neighbors at a meeting on Tuesday in Kuwait to do more to support Baghdad's government and shield it from Iran's "nefarious influences."Iran, as a neighbor of Iraq, will also attend the gathering
Top Iran clerics criticise Ahmadinejad over economy0 comments - published on Saturday, April 19, 2008
by Farhad Pouladi TEHRAN (AFP) - Three of Iran's top clerics have criticised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his handling of the economy, which is currently battling 18 percent inflation, the press reported Saturday. "We shift problems and faults onto others and in order to say we are innocent we blame others," Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavikani, a former prime minister and leading traditionalist conservative cleric, said in a speech in Tehran.
The Reality of Shia Prostitution behind the veil (3/5)0 comments - published on Friday, April 18, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian police will confront women in private offices, or even socialising in cafes, whose dress is deemed improper, as part of a continuedmorality crackdown, Tehran's police chief said on Thursday.Police have been enforcing the crackdown for the past year and its morality patrol officers have handed tens of thousands of warnings to women on Tehran's streets.Including offices and cafes -- which so far have not been targeted -- would mark a major expansion of the drive.
"As part of the campaign to increase security in society, the police in the capital will soon act against bad veiling in private companies, cafes, internet cafes and restaurants," Commander Ahmad Reza Radan said.
Deterring the undeterrable0 comments - published on Friday, April 18, 2008
Friday, 18 April 2008 The Washington PostBy Charles Krauthammer The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitably going to break down. The inevitable has arrived.The six-party talks on North Korea have failed miserably. They did not prevent Pyongyang from testing a nuclear weapon and entering the club. Now North Korea has broken yet again its agreement to reveal all its nuclear facilities.
The other test case was Iran. The EU-3 negotiations (Britain, France and Germany) went nowhere. Each U.N. Security Council resolution enacting what passed for sanctions was more useless than the last. Uranium enrichment continues.
When Iran's latest announcement that it was tripling its number of centrifuges to 9,000 elicited no discernible response from the Bush administration, the game was over. Everyone says Iran must be prevented from going nuclear. No one will bell the cat.The "international community" is prepared to do nothing of consequence to halt nuclear proliferation. No one wants to admit that. Nor does anyone want to contemplate the prospect of nuclear weapons in the hands of one, two, many rogue states.We must. The day is coming, and quickly. We must face reality and begin thinking how we live with the unthinkable.here are four ways to deal with rogue states going nuclear: preemption, deterrence, missile defense and regime change.
Preemption works but, as a remedy, it is spent. Iraq was defanged by the 1981 Israeli airstrike, by the 1991 Persian Gulf War (which uncovered Saddam Hussein's clandestine nuclear programs) and finally by the 2003 invasion, which ended the Hussein dynasty, père et deux fils.A collateral effect of the Iraq war was Libya's nuclear disarmament. Seeing Hussein's fate, Moammar Gaddafi declared and dismantled his nuclear program. And if November's National Intelligence Estimate is to be believed, the Iraq invasion even induced Iran to temporarily suspend weaponization and enrichment.But the cost of preemption is simply too high. No one is going to renew the Korean War with an attack on Pyongyang. And the prospects of an attack on Iran's facilities are now vanishingly small. What to do?
Top Iran lawmaker: We will never abandon enrichment0 comments - published on Friday, April 18, 2008
Friday, 18 April 2008 Iran Focus/ Tehran, Iran, Apr. 18 – A senior official in Iran's hard-line dominated Majlis (Parliament) has stressed that "resolutions and sanctions imposed against Iran will never stop the country's nuclear program", state media reported on Thursday.Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, reiterated that no new international proposal would be considered by Tehran if it included a provision that Iran suspends uranium enrichment, state television quoted him as saying on Wednesday. He was referring to a possible future incentives package to be offered to Tehran by the United Nations' P5+1 states – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.
WASHINGTON —Friday, April 18, 2008 A U.S. report projects a concerted effort by Saudi Arabia to match Iran's nuclear weapons program.
The report, submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took note of a U.S. assessment that Teheran's nuclear program frightens the Saudi royal family "to their core."
Iran's mission rejects US allegations of role in Iraq0 comments - published on Friday, April 18, 2008
UNITED NATIONS - Iran's U.N. Mission said allegations by U.S. officials that the country is supporting the insurgency in Iraq are "unfounded" and "baseless."
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Apr. 17 - Iran put on display an 1,800 km-range "Qadr 1" missile during a procession of its military forces on Thursday, state media reported.
Iran has been displaying its military power at a ceremony to mark the country's annual army day.
By Scott Stearns
WashingtonU.S. President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown say they are working to extend sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the two leaders met to discuss wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as political unrest in Zimbabwe.
Envoys at talks on Iranian nuclear program reach some agreements on incentives for Tehran0 comments - published on Thursday, April 17, 2008
SHANGHAI, China: Talks on incentives aimed at persuading Iran to stop its nuclear program ended with no clear result, though the meeting's chairman said diplomatic efforts would continue.The five permanent U.N. Security Council members as well as Germany and the European Union "reached agreements on some major parts" during the closed-door meeting, said Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei, who hosted the session. He did not give details of the talks, which ended Wednesday.
Iran offers addicts condoms, syringes from vending machines0 comments - published on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
(AFP) - Iran is installing vending machines in Tehran to sell cheap condoms and syringes to drug addicts to prevent the spread of AIDS and hepatitis, an official said on Wednesday. "Five of these machines which have been made will be installed in five of Tehran city's welfare shelters for addicts," the deputy head of Iran's anti-narcotics organisation, Mohammad Reza Jahani, said.
"Condoms, syringes, bandages and plasters will be easily accessible just by inserting a coin. This protects addicts from acquiring AIDS and hepatitis," he added, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
He said that a single 500 rial (five cents) coin is required to purchase the items.
James McKeigue LONDON - Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari taunted America and Britain after the two countries appealed for OPEC to increase supply. "Why should OPEC try to lower prices? ... Let America and Britain continue demanding," the controversial minister said to journalists outside a conference in Tehran on Wednesday.
Washington 'speechless' after Ahmadinejad 9/11 comment0 comments - published on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Wednesday it was "speechless" after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced doubts about the accepted version of the September 11 I am not sure what you say about a statement like that. It leaves one speechless," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack."It is just It is just misguided, misinformed rhetoric," McCormack said.
"I cannot tell whether or not it is something that he truly believes or if this is just an attempt to try to shake up public opinion in Iran or elsewhere," McCormack said.Earlier Wednesday, Ahmadinejad called the 9/11 attacks a "suspect event" in a speech at a public rally in the holy city of Qom."Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York," Ahmadinejad said,in an address carried live on state television."A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed, whose names were never published."
Envoys at talks on Iranian nuclear program reach some agreements on incentives for Tehran0 comments - published on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
By Cara AnnaASSOCIATED PRESS
SHANGHAI, China – Talks on incentives aimed at persuading Iran to stop its nuclear program ended Wednesday with no clear result, though the chairman said diplomatic efforts would continue.
The five permanent U.N. Security Council members, Germany and the European Union "reached agreements on some major parts" during the closed-door meeting, said Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei, who hosted the session. He did not give details.
Iran: Arrests, Jailings Of Political And Rights Activists Continue0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Iranian authorities this month have added several more names to the list of political activists, human rights campaigners, and journalists who have been imprisoned for voicing dissent.
The leader of the unregistered Democratic Party of Iran, Abbas Khorsandi, is among the latest targets of the Iranian security services. Khorsandi was sentenced last week to eight years in prison after being found guilty of threatening Iranian state security by setting up "an illegal political group."
A 50-year-old economics professor in the northern town of Firuzkuh, Khorsandi was arrested about seven months ago and has spent more than two months in solitary confinement in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday ordered the police to protect Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, who said she had received death threats, the state IRNA news agency reported. "Following reports about threatening notes to Ms Shirin Ebadi, the president ordered the police chief to immediately adopt measures to provide security to this Iranian citizen and alleviate concerns," IRNA said.
"Ahmadinejad asked the police chief to investigate this matter, discover the origin of these letters and refer those behind it to the judiciary," it added.
Iran says it will "eliminate" Israel if it attacks0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will respond to any military attack from Israel by "eliminating" the Jewish state, a senior army commander said on Tuesday.
Deputy commander-in-chief Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was echoing Iran's late leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who said Israel should be wiped off the map.
TEHRAN, April 15 (Reuters) - The number of executions in Iran is "not high", the judiciary said on Tuesday, responding to an Amnesty International report that listed the Islamic Republic as the world's second most prolific executioner in 2007.
European governments and Western rights groups have criticised Iran for an increasing number of hangings since authorities launched a clampdown on "immoral behaviour" in July.Amnesty said on Tuesday that Iran had executed 317 people last year. China, the world's leading executioner, carried out at least 470 death sentences in 2007, the rights group said.
By Fredrik Dahl and Parisa Hafezi
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran says it plans proposals to help end a row over its nuclear ambitions but at the same time it is raising the stakes before world powers meet by expanding work the West fears could produce bombs.The five permanent U.N. Security Council members -- the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain -- and Germany are expected to discuss sweetening an incentives package offered in 2006 when their officials meet in Shanghai onWednesday.Iranian officials have repeatedly ruled out halting the nuclear program in return for trade and other benefits.
Iran Destructive In Iraq0 comments - published on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
In testimony before the United States Senate, the top U.S. military officer and the leading U.S. diplomat in Iraq said that recent gains in Iraq's security situation are significant but reversible. Both General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said that the threat from al-Qaida in Iraq has been diminished, but not extinguished; ethno-sectarian violence has been reduced, but could flare up, particularly if it is fueled by the actions of outside actors. And both men spoke of the continuing destructive influence of Iran in Iraq.
The preacher who was speaking to followers when a deadly blast went off in his southern Iran mosque Saturday night told an Iranian news agency that the explosion was definitely a bomb. Some Iranian authorities said the explosion in the southern city of Shiraz could have been an accident caused by munitions left as props to commemorate the Iran-Iraq war.
By NAZILA FATHIPublished: April 14, 2008 TEHRAN, April 13 — The death toll from a powerful explosion at a mosque in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on Saturday evening rose to 12, the state news media reported Sunday. The number of those wounded had reached 202. A terrorist attack has not been ruled out, but officials said the blast could have been an accident.
US, Iran in secret discussions on nuclear program: report0 comments - published on Sunday, April 13, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States and Iran have been conducting secret back-channel discussions on Tehran's nuclear program and frozen relations between the two countries, The Independent reported Monday.
The British newspaper quotes former US under secretary of state Thomas Pickering as saying that a group of former US diplomats and foreign policy experts had been meeting with Iranian academics and policy advisers "in a lot of different places, although not in the US or Iran" for the past five years.
Twelve people died and 191 others wounded at Shohada Hosseiniyeh mosque explosion in Shiraz, the capital of southern province of Fars, IRNA reported.
According to Shiraz Emergency Center, some 60 outpatients left the hospital while 28 wounded need surgeries. A powerful explosion at Rahpouyan-e Vessal cultural center that is part of a mosque, located in a residential area of Shiraz, took place at around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT) Saturday during an evening prayer sermon by a prominent local cleric.
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian officials raised the death toll from an explosion in a packed mosque in southern Iran to 12 on Sunday and said more than 200 ha0 comments - published on Sunday, April 13, 2008
By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian officials raised the death toll from an explosion in a packed mosque in southern Iran to 12 on Sunday and said more than 200 had been injured in the blast.
Iranian media initially quoted local officials as saying the explosion Saturday in the city of Shiraz was caused by a homemade bomb and could have been religiously motivated.
By HOPE YEN/ WASHINGTON (AP) — With al-Qaida's influence diminishing in Iraq, U.S. troops have much work to do in stemming Iranian support for militias, President Bush's national security adviser said Sunday.
Authorities upped the casualty count from a Saturday night explosion in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz to 12 dead and 202 injured
The explosion took place in a Shiite Muslim house of worship during a talk by a controversial cleric. Mohammed Anjivinejad is known for his denunciations of the Wahhabi Islam that drives Sunni extremists as well as the Bahai faith, a small religion born in Iran during the 19th century that Shiite clerics consider heretical. Check out the
Authorities Should Investigate Allegations of Abuse
(Washington, DC, April 10, 2008) – Iranian authorities should immediately investigate allegations that Ministry of Information agents and interrogators tortured four detained student activists, and punish officials involved in such abuse, Human Rights Watch said today. According to sources familiar with the case, the students have suffered physical and psychological abuse during detention. Three students remain imprisoned, and the whereabouts of the fourth detainee, taken from his hospital bed on April 5, are unknown.
By M K Bhadrakumar April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T S Eliot's famous opening lines from The Waste Land come to mind as Washington confirms that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is heading for the Middle East to attend an international conference regarding the Iraq situation, in Kuwait on April 22. This will be no ordinary run-of-the-mill international conference. It's about Iraq. And Rice may well bump into her Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
From Michael Ware
CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iranian influence on Iraq's ruling parties is a "stark reality," the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq said Thursday, but he said Iranian support for Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias has raised "genuine concern" among leaders in Baghdad.In a CNN interview after two days before Congress, Gen. David Petraeus said some Iranian influence in Iraq was "understandable" given the ruling Shiite coalition's longstanding ties to Iran.
Iran: Top Shia cleric says unveiled women turn men into beasts0 comments - published on Friday, April 11, 2008
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Mashad, A top Shia cleric in Iran has said that unveiled women are a serious danger to Iranian society as they cause men to be "transformed into beasts".
"Women without the veil are a danger that the authorities underestimate," said Hojatolislam Seyyed Ahmad Elmalhoda, a powerful cleric who leads the Friday prayers in Mashad, a site considered sacred for Shia Muslims as it houses the shrine of Imam Reza.
Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Apr. 11 – Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday.Both men, identified as Abdol-Qodus and Mohammad Yousef, were executed in a prison in the provincial capital Zahedan on Wednesday, said the website Tabnak, which is run by associates of the former Commandant of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezai.They had been arrested on December 13 along with 11 other militants during armed clashes with security forces, the report said.
Hizbollah turns to Iran for new weapons to wage war on Israel0 comments - published on Friday, April 11, 2008
The Independent By Robert Fisk in Teir Dibba, south Lebanon
The Shia "martyrs" of this hill village are normally killed in the dangerous, stony landscape of southern Lebanon, in Israeli air raids or invasions or attacks from the sea. The Hizbollah duly honours them. But the body of the latest Shia fighter to be buried here – from the local Hashem family – was flown back to Lebanon last month from Iran.
Spy photos reveal 'secret launch site' for Iran's long-range missiles0 comments - published on Friday, April 11, 2008
The Times Fri. 11 Apr 2008
Michael Evans The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.
The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 "research rocket" on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush issued a stark warning to Iran to stop interfering in Iraq on Thursday and characterized Iran and al Q0 comments - published on Friday, April 11, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush issued a stark warning to Iran to stop interfering in Iraq on Thursday and characterized Iran and al Qaeda as "two of the greatest threats to America." In a speech at the White House, Bush, who has accused Iran of backing militant groups in southern Iraq and providing explosives to extremists in the country, said Tehran had a choice in its relations with Iraq.
Iran's Ahmadinejad targets 'corrupt world leadership'0 comments - published on Friday, April 11, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday set Iran the target of wiping out the "corrupt world leadership," in his latest verbal attack on Western powers locked in a nuclear crisis with Tehran. "The Iranian nation will not give up until the corrupt leadership in the world has been obliterated," Ahmadinejad said in the Shiite holy city of Mashhad, northeast Iran, quoted by the Fars news agency.
Diplomacy Stalls as Iran's Nuclear Program Advances0 comments - published on Friday, April 11, 2008
By Thomas Omestad Posted April 10, 2008 /Iran's determined campaign to enrich uranium—highlighted this week by the announcement that it was installing 6,000 more fuel-producing centrifuges to its current stable of 3,000—is spurring more criticism of the Bush administration for its refusal to negotiate with Iran as long as it is making nuclear fuel.
Iran's president to replace economy, interior ministers0 comments - published on Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Iran's government spokesman announced on Wednesday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will replace the economy and interior ministers, the state-owned Press TV satellite channel reported.
Iran warns West of "bloody nose" over nuclear issue0 comments - published on Wednesday, April 09, 2008
By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president on Wednesday warned the West to expect a "bloody nose" over mounting pressure on Iran to halt its sensitive uranium enrichment activities, state television reported. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany will meet on April 16 in Shanghai to discuss whether to sweeten incentives they had offered Iran in 2006 to curb its nuclear program.
TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economy minister on Sunday admitted Iran's government had failed to control rampant inflation, which figures showed rose to 18.4 percent in the last year.
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By Rowan ScarboroughThe contested U.S. intelligence conclusion that Iran stopped work on its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is now being downplayed by the same officials who wrote the much-publicized report in November.
"Why would the Iranians be willing to pay the international tariff they appear to be willing to pay for what they are doing now if they did not have, at a minimum, at a minimum, they did not have a desire to keep the option open to develop a nuclear weapon and perhaps even more so that they have already decided to do that?" CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said Sunday.
Iran vows to reject deal to suspend uranium enrichment0 comments - published on Saturday, April 05, 2008
Iran Focus/ Tehran, Iran, Apr. 04 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Tehran would reject any new incentives offered to it by world powers in return for it to suspend uranium enrichment, a key demand of the United Nations Security Council.Ahmadinejad made the remarks in an interview with the Japanese news agency Kyodo News."This is a non-negotiable subject", Ahmadinejad said in response to a question about possible incentives for Tehran to suspend enrichment activities.
Figures regarding the population living "under the absolute poverty line": Fifteen million divergence in official and expert' statistics0 comments - published on Thursday, April 03, 2008
Iran's Ministry of Welfare and Social Security policies still based on charity: Social welfare researcher announcing the increasing subsidy escaping rate
Figures regarding the population living "under the absolute poverty line": Fifteen million divergence in official and expert' statistics
Payvand.com -- A social welfare researcher referring to the welfare indexes in the country said: Still a part of Iranian population lives under the extreme poverty line not having enough income even to spend on food. Iran's per capita income is about 300 dollars, whereas the rate for Kuwait is 26 thousands, UAE 25 thousands, Saudi Arabia 12.4 thousands and Amman 9.5 thousand dollars.Saeed Madani in an interview with social correspondent of Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), asserted that optimistically the population living under the poverty line has been announced to be one million. He added: Nevertheless realistic assessments indicate that four to five million Iranians now live under the extreme poverty line.
The Daily Telegraph
By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nations with intelligence on Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.
Concern over Tehran's secretive research programme has increased in recent weeks after officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, discovered that Iran had obtained information on how to manufacture nuclear-armed weapons.
Israel approves bill prohibiting economic ties with Iran0 comments - published on Thursday, April 03, 2008
Israel's Knesset (parliament) on Wednesday approved a bill prohibiting all business institutions from investing in companies upholding ties with Iran, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on its website.
The bill, put forward by opposition leader MK (member of Knesset) Benjamin Netanyahu, was in an effort to broaden the economic sanctions on Iran and thus to hinder its nuclear progress, Yedioth Ahronoth said, adding that the new law carries a sentence of 25 years in prison.
BEIJING - China denied Thursday that it had provided the International Atomic Energy Agency with intelligence linked to Iran's alleged attempts to make nuclear arms.
Iran inflation rate rising ten times faster than national growth0 comments - published on Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Iran's official inflation rate is rising ten times as fast as the national growth level.The Iranian government puts the inflation rate in the Persian calendar year which ended March 19 at above the 18 percent threshold. Most economic analysts who follow the state of Iran's fitful economy put the real level at well above 20 percent.


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Dec. 15, 2007, 7 p.m.,p> The game: The Lady Bisons have not played a game since beating Arkansas-Pine Bluff 48-42 in the consolation game of the Commerce Bank/Wildcat Classic at Kansas State.
The Lady Bisons are 1-1 at Allen Arena this season with a 123-22 win over Fisk and 54-42 loss to Bowling Green State.
Murray State comes into the game on a four-game winning streak. This is the first of three road games in a row. The Racers have won both of their Ohio Valley Conference games so far this season. The only losses are to Missouri and the University of Tennessee.
Last season the Lady Bisons lost 81-53 at Murray State.
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The starters: The expected starting lineup is Catie Woods (6.9 ppg, 1.1 apg) and Miaca Bowman (1.9 ppg, 2.1 apg) at the guard spots, Jilian Partin (6.3 ppg, 2.4 rpg) and Kaleigh Gossman (4.3 ppg, 3.2 rpg) at the forward positions and Katie Rollins at center (9.3 ppg, 4.3 rpg).
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Center Katie Rollins has started seven. Forward Kaleigh Gossman has started five. Forward Miriam McAlister has started four.
Forwards Tiffany Arnold and Cree Nix have each started one game.
One is the loneliest number: In each of their last three games the Lady Bisons have had only one player average in double figures. Catie Woods has led with 10 against Kentucky (11/25), Katie Rollins with 10 at Kansas State (11/30) and 15 by Rollins against Arkansas-Pine Bluff (12/1).
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With eight decorated trees on display year round, it�s Christmas every day at Sherry Threatt�s home in Dallas.
Her home includes displays showcasing more than 3,000 Hallmark ornaments.
Collecting the sentimental, delicate decorations has been her passion for two decades. And after surviving breast cancer 12 years ago, remembrances of the Christmas season have taken an even more special meaning.
She joined about 40 fellow shoppers at the Hallmark store inside Westfield Eastridge mall in Gastonia early Saturday to gaze at newly unveiled holiday wonderment.
Customers waited in line at 9 a.m., an hour before the mall opens, to be the first to see the 2013 Christmas ornament collection.
Threatt examined ornament displays as her adult daughter, Amanda Threatt, held shopping bags and filled them with boxed ornaments.
�Any day you buy an ornament is a happy day,� Sherry Threatt said, as she sat on the floor at the back of the store. She opened each of the 25 ornament boxes she planned to purchase and inspected the detail work.
Many of the ornaments are priced $15-$23 each, but it�s worth the price for collectors, she said.
The ornaments tug on her heartstrings, and that keeps her in the mood to buy more. She plans to put her purchases on layaway, and pick them up as December approaches.
�This is just the start, this is my layaway. I come back in October, and I do me a second layaway,� she said. �And then I go back when they (are marked) 50 percent (off) after Christmas, and I buy the rest.�
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We have eight directors on our board and three board committees (audit, compensation, and nominating and corporate governance). At the time of our 2010 10-K filing, seven of our eight directors (88 percent) were independent, exceeding the majority threshold required by NASDAQ. Independence is determined by heightened compliance with NASDAQ rules on director independence. The sole non-independent director is Jensen Huang, the company's president and CEO.
Our bylaws and corporate governance policies permit the roles of chairman of the board and chief executive officer to be filled by the same or different individuals. This allows the board flexibility in determining what is best for the company. At this time, NVIDIA has a lead director rather than a board chair. The lead director is William J. Miller.
To learn more, please visit the Corporate Governance page of NVIDIA's website.
Executive Compensation
The primary goal for our executive compensation program is to attract and retain a talented, innovative and entrepreneurial team of executives who will provide leadership for our success in a dynamic, competitive market.
The Compensation Committee believes that a mix of both cash and equity incentives is appropriate, as cash incentives reward executives for near-term results, while equity incentives motivate executives to increase stockholder value in the longer term.
Given the global economic conditions and our cost saving efforts, for fiscal year 2010 our executive officers received a 5 percent base salary reduction and were not eligible for any variable cash compensation (except for our recently hired CFO). As a result of these compensation decisions, equity compensation in fiscal year 2010 had a significantly higher weight relative to cash compensation.
To learn more, please see our proxy materials.
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In April 2009, our Board adopted a Compensation Recovery Policy pursuant to which, if (i) we are required to prepare an accounting restatement to correct an accounting error on an interim or annual financial statement included in a report on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K due to material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under the federal securities laws, or a Restatement, and (ii) the Board or a committee of independent directors concludes that our CEO or CFO had received a variable compensation payment, or portion thereof, that would not have been payable if the original interim or annual financial statements reflected the Restatement, then our CEO or CFO shall disgorge to NVIDIA the net after-tax amount of such variable compensation payment.
Internal Control
NVIDIA's SOX Compliance Group is responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting.
Based on their evaluation as of January 31, 2010, our management has concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting were effective.
For more information, please visit our FY2010 10-K, Item 9A.
Conducting our business in an ethical manner is of paramount importance to our ability to run a responsible, innovative business and maintain our reputation.
We have a Worldwide Code of Conduct that applies to all of our executive officers, directors and employees, including our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer. We also have a Financial Team Code of Conduct that applies to our executive officers, directors and members of our finance, accounting and treasury departments.
Both the Worldwide Code of Conduct and the Financial Team Code of Conduct are available under Corporate Governance in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.nvidia.com. If we make any amendments to the Worldwide Code of Conduct or the Financial Team Code of Conduct or grant any waiver from a provision of either code to any executive officer or director, we will promptly disclose the nature of the amendment or waiver on our website.
Our code of conduct prohibits engaging in transactions or activities that are a conflict of interest. Employees must certify when entering Purchase Requisitions that they don't have a conflict of interest. Employees are encouraged to report suspected conflicts of interest to their manager or HR representative through a third-party hosted portal. We recently moved this facility to an external organization to enhance our employees' comfort level with anonymous reporting and for administrative reasons. We have a strict "no retaliation" policy regarding reports of activities that run counter to our ethical expectations.
If an employee is found to have violated our codes of conduct, we would take appropriate actions up to and including termination of employment.
Ethics Training
All NVIDIA employees receive some form of ethics training. Starting in 2005, we instituted sexual harassment training for all employees. In 2009 we conducted legal training for leaders (director and above), and in 2010 we plan to expand training to cover our Worldwide Code of Conduct for all employees. We have a goal to achieve 100% training on key issues.
Product Responsibility
We engineer and design our own products, which are made by carefully selected third-party manufacturers. We work with our suppliers to ensure high quality and set strict quality controls. In the event of any problems related to product design and manufacturing, we work quickly to correct and resolve these issues to our customers' satisfaction.
For example, during fiscal years 2009 and 2010 and the second quarter of fiscal year 2011, we recorded net warranty charges against cost of revenue to cover anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other costs arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of our previous generation MCP and GPU products used in notebook configurations. The weak die/packaging material combination is not used in any of our products that are currently in production.
The previous generation MCP and GPU products that are impacted were included in a number of notebook products that were shipped and sold in significant quantities. Certain notebook configurations of these products are failing in the field at higher than normal rates. Testing suggests a weak material set of die/package combination, system thermal management designs, and customer use patterns are contributing factors. We have worked with our customers to develop and have made available for download a software driver to cause the system fan to begin operation at the powering up of the system and reduce the thermal stress on these chips. We have also recommended to our customers that they consider changing the thermal management of the products in their notebook system designs. We intend to fully support our customers in their repair and replacement of these impacted products that fail, and their other efforts to mitigate the consequences of these failures.
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