THE EYERANIANS

This is a great interview with Prof. Richard Fry.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

    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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]