Tag Archives : Iran

Iran has once again shocked the world by its decision to imprison and ban renowned film director Jafar Panahi for making films which project political, religious realities and gender divides existing in Iran. Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years of imprisonment and has been banned for 20 years from working on any projects and making movies. [...]

Former U.S. president George W. Bush (2001-2009) ordered the Pentagon who planned attacks on Iran and Syria, he said in his autobiography “Decision Points“, which launched yesterday. The U.S. says to keep “all options on the table” over Iran, which Washington accuses of seeking to develop a bomb with its nuclear program. Tehran [...]

Iran has imposed restrictions on the teaching and academic research involving 12 subject areas based on current Western thought and “incompatible with the teachings of Islam“, Iranian state radio reported Sunday. The list includes materials in the disciplines of law, philosophy, business administration, psychology and political science, [...]

The world is on the brink of war. But instead of bombs and explosions, chaos will come through blackouts in the electrical system and breakdown in communications. The cause for all this: a powerful computer virus. The concept of cyber warfare, attacks on the infrastructure of the state by means of computers, it sounds like a movie script, but governments, [...]

Confidential documents about the war in Iraq, released on Friday by the WikiLeaks site, show the support of Iraqi Shiite militias by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the elite Iranian military, the newspaper report The New York Times and Al Jazeera . The role of Iran in the Iraq War is the subject of numerous documents, many of which suggest that [...]

The recent worm attack Stuxnet is generating much discussion and speculation about the intent, purpose, origin, and especially the identities of the attackers and their targets. The virus, highly sophisticated, contaminated businesses worldwide, but seems to have particularly affected Iran. Therefore, it is suspected that it was created with the intention [...]

Soft toys in the shape of various animals isn’t anything new for the Bangkok airport authorities, and are more than legal as well as safe to travel with to any part of the world. But, what the authorities weren’t at all prepared for was to find a sedated real life cub of a tiger hidden discreetly among the scores of soft toys in the baggage of a [...]

Well we haven’t really seen Iran being in the news for is tech innovation, which is why the story of its successful human shaped robot got me amazed. It isn’t their first time as two years ago Iranian students had built Surena, a white human shaped robot that could be moved around via remote control. This time around a league of 20 robot experts [...]

Iran is willing to grant Japan the contract for the construction of five new nuclear plants, according to Iranian Parliamentary Foreign Policy and National Security Committee Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi. He adds that ‘Japan’s participation would be in the interest of both the Government of Japan and private companies.’ Japan is being allowed [...]

France, Russia, and the US deny the existence of yet another nuclear deal with nuclearization-belligerent Iran after the country defied all opposition to its uranium enrichment program. Iran has asserted and now greenlights efforts to upgrade its uranium resources. Edward Yeranian of VOANews.com reports that ‘Iran’s nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar [...]