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Nabil Karoui: ‘They have turned me into another Salman Rushdie’
Asieh Amini interviews Nabil Karoui, Tunisian media man who was fined because his TV station aired the animated film "Persepolis" which some Muslim leaders in Tunisia say insults Islam.
- Rights of Iranian People Abandoned in Shadow of Nuclear Talks
Shirin Ebadi protests against the G5+1 meeting with Iran in an interview with Radio Zamaneh
- Roads of Death
Some compare the numbers with the casualties of a war, others calculate the statistics by the minute and even in seconds: in Iran, it is always possible that someone who ventures down a road may never return.
- Illegal fishing, piracy and poverty
Is unauthorized and overfishing by European and Chinese fishing vessels connected with the growth of piracy in Africa?
- Iran and its neighbours’ Artificial Islands
The Republic of Azerbaijan has been considering a project to create artificial islands in the Caspian Sea that would be the size of a city, with large residential, tourism and commercial centres to attract foreign investors and international tourists.
- Do you know what it means to be destitute?
Akbar Falahzadeh describes the deteriorating situation for workers in the Islamic Republic with ever-rising inflation, the decline of the manufacturing sector and mismanagement of the economy.
- Iranian protest leaders and one year of house arrests
Marking one year of house arrest for the Iranian opposition leaders, Behrouz Samadbeigi records the events that led to their unprecedented confinement and their ordeals of the past year.
- Bahman 25 of Last Year
Ayaz Marhouni recalls the Iranian protest rally of February 14, 2011, which led to several deaths, widespread arrests and, finally, to the house arrest of opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, Zahra Rahnavard and Fatemeh Karroubi. In the leaders’ absence, some opposition groups have called for another rally on the anniversary of last year’s demonstrations.
- Will Women Participate in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections?
In examining the eight Islamic Republic parliaments, from the very first Parliament, which included only four women, despite the historic role that women played in the success of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, to the fourth one, in which a record 14 women became lawmakers, and then to the sixth Parliament, which did the most to address women’s demands, we will note little actual progress beyond minor alterations to some discriminatory laws such as those concerning inheritance and child custody, and even those changes were due to the fierce struggles of women’s rights activists, who drew public attention to the inequity of these laws.
- Iranian Scientific Elite Sacrificed at the Altar of Nuclear Policies
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan is the fifth Iranian scientist to become the target of terrorist operations. He was a professor of physics at Sanati Sharif University in Tehran and deputy director for commercial affairs at Natanz nuclear plant .