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Dust pollution closes down Tehran ( PressTV.ir ) / Hmm on protest days, rather convenient

Posted Mon, 2009-07-06 15:06 by IRelec09

Dust pollution closes down Tehran: Via PressTV.ir .

Tehran's offices and educational and industrial centers will be closed due to the high level of dust pollution in the Iranian capital.

Tehran's Committee for Coordinating Emergency Air Pollution announced that all offices and educational centers in the province would be closed on July 7, 2009 and its industrial centers would be closed from July 7 to 9.

Dust storms raising from the desert lands in Iraq and Saudi Arabia have hit Iran's western and southwestern areas, including the provinces of Qom, Kurdistan, Chahar-Mahal and Bakhtiari, Zanjan and Fars.

Director of Tehran's Air Quality Control Company (AQCC) Yousef Rashidi warned people on Monday about the dangerous impact of pollution on the respiratory and cardiac systems.

The committee also announced that while sports activities and using personal vehicles would be limited in Tehran Province, all university exams would be hold according to schedule.
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Activists Rally in Support of Iranian Opposition in New York (VoA)

Posted Sun, 2009-06-28 10:48 by IRelec09

Activists Rally in Support of Iranian Opposition in New York: Via Voice of America.

Human rights activists rallied in New York City Friday night in support of election protesters in Iran, saying they would keep up international pressure on the Tehran government for as long as necessary.

More than 300 activists and opposition supporters, many sporting green bracelets, scarves and headbands and holding green ballons, gathered at the edge of New York's Central Park during a heavy rain storm. Larry Cox, of Amnesty International, one of the rally organizers, said they were there to show their solidarity with the people of Iran. "We are going to stand in solidarity with those people now and for as long as it takes for them to win the fight for freedom and dignity and human rights," he said.

He urged the Iranian government to listen to "the courageous voices of their own people."
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Iranian Embassy in Stockholm storms (Google Translate)

Posted Fri, 2009-06-26 14:34 by IRelec09

Iranian Embassy in Stockholm storms - Google Translate: Via Google translation service.

Iranian embassy employees have demonstrators with baton at a demonstration outside the embassy on Lidingö in Stockholm on Friday afternoon, according to a witness on the spot.

- Ten or twenty demonstrators broke through the fence, entered the embassy area. Then came some from inside the area, came forward påkar and began to turn on the demonstrators, "said Roya Hakimnia, 24-year-old läkarstudent participating in the demonstration.

She saw himself more persons, men and women, be hit by truncheon kind, but says that no one seems to have been seriously damaged.

Inroads were made around the clock 16.30. The demonstrators were unarmed but had earlier thrown stones into the area, where several embassy staff moved to the lawn and looked throughout the demonstration.
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Eric Margolis: Iran: Electronic Warfare Versus the Islamic Republic

Posted Thu, 2009-06-25 21:00 by IRelec09

Eric Margolis: Iran: Electronic Warfare Versus the Islamic Republic: Via .

Iran's political crisis continues to blaze. It's still impossible to say which leaders or factions will emerge victorious. However, one thing seems certain: the earthquake in the Islamic Republic that is shaking the Mideast and deeply confusing everyone, including the US government, is hardly the black and white morality drama between democracy and repression breathlessly portrayed by Western media.

A prime indicator of the complexity of the Iranian crisis was provided by the head of Israel's intelligence agency, Meir Dagan. The Mossad director reportedly expressed his hope that Iran's embattled president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would remain in office.

On the surface, that sounds absurd, since Ahmadinejad is Israel's Great Satan, the man that supporters of Israel claim intends to inflict a second Holocaust on the Jewish people.

According to Dagan, if Ahmadinejad's supposedly "moderate" rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, came to power, it would be harder for Israel to keep up its intense propaganda war against Iran over its nuclear program even when prime minister, Mousavi championed Iran's nuclear development.
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