This is a great interview with Prof. Richard Fry.
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Category: Politics, History, Persian
A large group of Iranian bloggers have decided to show their solidarity with tens of Iranian students who are imprisoned by the administration. More information, in Persian, is given in this blog.
This is the statement issued by the organizers (revised and translated by Kamangir).
Solidarity of Bloggers with the Imprisoned Iranian Students
“There is no doubt winter will have an end
And, the post of spring will come to our land
With thousands of flowers in his hand
Certainty it will come,
That other should be passed”
The spring is coming while many Iranian students are still behind the bars. Here is the names of some of them,
In the past month and half, many students from different cities and universities have been arrested, on charges related to holding peaceful ceremonies for the celebration of the 7th of November, the National Day for Students. They have been behind the bars since. During these days, their families have not been able to visit them and only some of them have been given the chance to have short phone calls with the inmates. This has caused a lot of anxiety and tension for the families and has resulted in their many protests in order to pressure the government to release the students, to no avail.
We honor the freedom-loving students of Iran, some of whom are also bloggers, and thus on January 30th we rename our blogs to “Bloggers’ Solidarity with Imprisoned Iranian Students”.
We wish the release of our friends.
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Category: Human Rights, Politics
Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times bureau chief and author of “All the Shah’s Men” talks about the history and causes of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
This is part of a Panel Discussion: “The U.S. and Iran: a Difficult History”
Moderated by Congressman Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-MD) at Washington National Cathedral on Monday, October 29, 2007
The sound quality is not great. So turn up the speakers and learn some history lessons.
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Nahid Keshavarz says two weeks in an Iranian jail didn’t deter her from helping try to collect one million signatures for a petition urging more women’s rights and, if anything, prison showed the cause was worth fighting for.Keshavarz is one of dozens of women who campaigners say have been detained since 2006 when the drive was launched. Most were released within a few days or weeks.
“No one wants to go to prison. But if we have to pay a price then we will, like women have all over the world,” said the 34-year-old, who was held on security-related charges after collecting signatures in Tehran.
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Category: Human Rights, In the News
Iran releases the video of Sunday’s maritime identification check in the Persian Gulf waters involving Iranian boats and US warships.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the US-released footage of the incident is fabricated and the audio of it is fake.
Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, an IRGC senior official, has said that the US vessels’ registration numbers had been unreadable to the Iranian guards.
He added that the guards approached the US ships only to examine the numbers.
The Iranian footage also includes the original radio communication between the Iranian guards and the US warship.
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Category: In the News, Politics
TEHRAN (AFP) — At least eight people froze to death in the heaviest snowfalls to have hit Iran in years, with several areas brought to a virtual standstill and 20 towns suffering cuts in gas supplies, officials said on Tuesday.
The snowfalls, said to be the worst in some 40 years, have forced all schools and government offices to close in Tehran and other regions in northern Iran over the last two days. They will remain shut on Wednesday.
No matter what, snow is still beautiful. Specially the Iranian kind of it! 
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Category: In the News
Iranian scientists announced on Tuesday that their nation’s first cloned sheep is now fifteen months old and doing well. The sheep is just a test project of the Iranian government.
The big research money is going into making Iraq a clone of Iran.
A shepherd holds Royana, Iran’s first surviving cloned sheep, in Isfahan, 234 miles (390 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 31, 2007. Iranian scientists said Monday that the country’s first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep. The cloned male sheep named Royana was born Sept. 30, 2006 in the historic central city of Isfahan, less than two months after the country’s first cloned animal, also a lamb, died within minutes of birth. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Category: science, technology, Politics
I would like to apologize to all the readers of The Eyeranians. The blog has not been up dated in a while which you can blame partly on my laziness and partly on the holiday season. Either way I hope you had a great Christmas and a wonderful new year, no matter what your religion or believes are. I want to wish you all a great new year , and hope we are going to be able to provide you with a bigger and better blog in the up coming year.
I also thought it would be appropriate to start the first post of the new year with some pictures from Christmas in Iran. Hope you enjoy them!
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