Gay crackdown
October 18-2013 The Kermanshah Pasdaran have announced the arrest of eight “homosexuals and devil worshippers,” some of whom were Iraqis ...
Month: October 2013
‘Plan’ adopted
October 18-2013 The Fars news agency reports that the cabinet last Wednesday adopted a plan for rehabilitating Lake Urumiyeh, which ...
Helping Namibia
October 18-2013 This should strike deep fear in the US Navy. Iran’s Navy last week offered to help the African ...
All parties say nuclear talks serious now
SENSIBILITIES — Someone at the UN Headquarters in Geneva apparently feared Iranians might be offended by the giant bas relief ...
Kurds’ Barzani speaks anew about Kurdish statehood
INDEPENDENCE — Masud Barzani, president of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, sat in his office in Erbil, Iraq, for ...
US rightwing uses Abedini to flay Obama
TARGET OBAMA — Both Sen. Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky (above), and Todd Starnes of Fox News (right) spoke last ...
Rohani asks cops to go easy on hejab
DRESSING — A policewoman with the morality patrol instructs a woman to adjust her headscarf so as to cover all ...
Iran beats Thailand 2-1
GOAL! — Reza Ghoochan-nejad, one of two expats to play Tuesday, celebrates after he scores Iran’s second goal to beat ...