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FIFA And Hijab Are Mutually Exclusive

FIFA Says No

Earlier this month, the Iranian women soccer team forfeited a 2012 Olympic qualifying match against Jordan by insisting that its female players wear the hijab instead of the FIFA-approved headgear.  That stand costs Iran a chance to play in the 2012 London Olympics.  FIFA’s stand against the hijab has again been tested, this time [...]

Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad And The Coming “Covert Emergence” Of The 12th Imam

When Prophecy Fails

California preacher Harold Camping from Family Radio International knows what it means to be called a false prophet.  His latest prophecy that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven (the rapture) last Saturday turned out to be false, although he now says that the correct date for the rapture is October 21 instead [...]

Iran – Confusion Over Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Case

Iranian Media Blackout

More confusion surrounds the case of 43-year-old Iranian mother-of-two Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose fate remains uncertain at first for alleged adultery and now, for murder.  Iranian media reports say that Iran has imposed a media blackout over this case, covering Iranian TV channels, state-run newspapers.

Statement From Attorney General and Iranian Embassy

In spite of this, [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Says US Staged 9/11 Attack

Conspiracy Theories Galore – From President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is in the news again.  This time he used the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York to accuse the US government of staging the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers in 2001.  American, British and many European delegations walked out of [...]

Iran – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Says Insults Against Carla Bruni-Sarkozy A Crime Worse Than A Crime

“What Kind Of Islam Allows That?”

“What kind of Islam allows that?” asked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in reference to the recent insults hurled by an Iranian newspaper at France First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.  While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not specifically name the newspaper when he spoke at an interview to the media, he has condemned [...]

Fidel Castro Says Holocaust Is Real

Fidel Castro Criticized Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad For Denying The Holocaust 

I was surprised to read a press report that the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Fidel Castro, has come to the defense of Israel over the reality of the Holocaust and Israel’s right to exist.  You may recall that it was Iran’s President Mahmoud [...]

French Comedian Dieudonne Supports Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

The Trip To Tehran

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian mother-of-two who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has found a supporter in controversial French comedian Dieudonne, who arrived in Tehran to plead for her clemency.   Dieudonne is a controversial figure in France for his anti-Semitism views.

A Friend Of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

According to the French media, [...]

Pope Benedict XVI And Italian Government Monitoring Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s Stoning Case Even As She Was Lashed 99 Times

Pope And Vatican Monitoring Developments

Amid the international uproar over the death-by-stoning sentence of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Roman Catholic Church in the Vatican City said that Pope Benedict XVI is now monitoring developments of this case intently.  Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said that Pope Benedict XVI  will act through diplomatic channels if asked by [...]

Iranian Lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei Speaks Out

Mohammad Mostafaei’s Escape to Norway

Lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei who fled from Iran after his wife, Fereshteh Halimi, and his brother-in-law, Farhad Halimi, were detained by the Iranian authorities, has now spoken out.  Mohammad Mostafaei is the lawyer representing Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.  He made the arduous [...]

Brazil Offers Lifeline To Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula’s Offer

The international support for Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has just received a boost from South America’s most powerful man – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula.  In a statement which took many people by surprise, President Luiz Inacio Lula made this offer through international media to the Iranian government: Brazil will [...]