THE EYERANIANS

Iran has unveiled the world’s largest handmade carpet. According to BBC, The carpet, which took 1,200 weavers some 18 months to make, is destined for a mosque in the United Arab Emirates. Measuring 5,625 sq m (60,546 sq ft), the carpet was made in nine separate segments with 2.2 billion knots. It was woven in [...]

Thats the title of a press release by the National Iranian American Council about the changes to the “Crossing Over” movie. Los Angeles/Washington DC – Ongoing conversations between NIAC and the director and actors in the upcoming film, ‘Crossing Over,’ reached a positive conclusion last week. According to the film’s director, all elements of an [...]

serendipity \ser-uhn-DIP-uh-tee\, noun: The faculty or phenomenon of making fortunate accidental discoveries. There again, perhaps because of serendipity, or an especially conscientious team of doctors, it can also happen that the crucial clues are noticed and recorded for posterity. – Edward Hooper, The River The word serendipity was formed by English author Horace Walpole (1717-1797) [...]

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Mansour Osanloo, leader of the Tehran bus workers union, was last week arrested and is now once again in prison.  The International Transport Workers Federation has launched an urgent appeal demanding his release: http://www.itfglobal.org/solidarity/osanloo2.cfm

Even a US paper airplane is capable of carrying out precision-guided bombing! Some sources say the Iranian plane crashed into the flowers on the table. The Iranian deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, used the opportunity both in the summit and afterward to call for withdrawal of American Air Force from the Persian Gulf region.

First 300 and now a new major motion picture slated for release this fall will feature an Iranian-American family involved in an ‘honor killing’ in Los Angeles. The film, entitled Crossing Over, is written and directed by Wayne Kramer and chronicles the struggles of immigrants in America. Written in the tradition of “Crash,” the film [...]