3. Reading Lolita in Tehran, autorica: Azar Nafisi U ovoj knjizi američko spisateljice iranskog podrijetla kritizira se vlast zbog " cenzure " stranih knjiga (prilični oksimoron), a ako se malo progugla također će se naći da je i ova knjiga " zabranjena u Iranu ".

The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C. I. A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda, Baer told me. These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers in this case, it ' s Shiite Iranians.

Tehran, 29 Jan. (AKI) - During a meeting with Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov in Tehran, Iran ' s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was reported as calling on Monday for a cooperation between the two countries to halt US ambitions in the region.

At the end of the year, four campaign activists remained in detention without charge or trial - - Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi, Kurdish women who were detained in Sanandaj in October and November respectively; and Maryam Hosseinkhah and Jelveh Javaheri, who were detained in Tehran in connection with their work editing the campaign ' s website.

While Zhila as been sentenced to stoning, her brother, jailed in Tehran, is to receive only 150 lashes, in accordance with Islamic laws

The officer in charge Lt Carman said they were taken to a prison in Tehran where they were stripped and dressed in pyjamas

But whether the Hojjatieh is being resurrected by its former adherents or is being used as a battering ram by those Iranian politicians opposed to the current government, its reappearance coincides with a Shi ' ite resurgence across the region and a new era of conservative factional infighting in Tehran

During the past 11 months more than 565 tons of drugs have been seized in Iran, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam said in a press conference in Tehran on Monday

But turnout of around 60 percent and Ahmadinejad ' s close identification with some candidates, particularly in Tehran, suggested a shift toward more moderate policies and away from the president ' s ultra-conservative line

At a time of rising Sunni-Shi ' ite tensions in the region, and as Iraq increasingly turns into a proxy battleground for its neighbors, it is not surprising that a Shi ' ite supremacist government in Tehran, whether related to the Hojjatieh or not, should reemerge

Khatami ' s attack coincides with mounting evidence that a radically anti-Bahai [ 1 ] and anti-Sunni semi-clandestine society, called the Hojjatieh, is reemerging in the corridors of power in Tehran.

There are three thousand plastic surgeons operating in Tehran alone.

The Iranian website Baztab, which is identified with Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai, has reported that, despite repeated denials by government representatives, there has been in recent weeks a sharp rise in electricity outages in Tehran and many other locations in Iran

Der Vorsitzende des Departments Elektrotechnik der Stanford University (USA), sagte: " Ohne Zweifel, die beste Universität der Welt in anbetracht der Elektrotechnikingenieur-Absolventen, ist die Sharif University of Technology in Tehran

" There are about 100 synagogues in Iran of which about 26 are in Tehran.

The society ' s anti-leftism also chimes with reports that Ahmadinejad was pushing for a takeover of the Soviet Embassy alongside or instead of the US compound in Tehran during the 1979 revolution

Asia Times Online spoke last week with European and North American diplomats in Tehran who are trying to identify which of the new government ' s ministers have sympathies with the Hojjatieh or a part in the organization