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 New Year, Norouz 1389 - 2010 Times تحویل سالVernal Equinox Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 17:32:13 UTCTehran Saturday, March 20, 2010, 09:02:13 PM San Francisco  Amsterdam - Stichting Andishe Nowroz کانون اندیشهSaturday March 20, 2010
Nowroz festival with DJ Human, Liv  Iran's Kish Island - ARIAN BAND Nowrooz weekSunday March 21-28, 2010 The ARIAN BAND will perform live concerts during the first week of Nowrooz holidays (Marc 16 year old Michelle Montezeri dedicates her original song Change to the Iranian Green Movement.
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According to the Persian language site sazegara.net, the following 5-question survey was conducted in secret in Iran, and about 350 Iranians from Tehran and 3 other unnamed provinces took the survey on Jan. 17th 2010. Here is your chance to take the same survey but in English. You ‘ll see the result [...]
The 612-page report, HRW’s 20th annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes major human rights trends in more than 90 nations. Human Rights Watch cited Sudan and China as countries that routinely shut down human rights groups and Iran and Uzbekistan as countries that openly harass and arbitrarily detain [...]
In a year marked by intensified repression against human rights defenders and civic activists, declines for freedom were registered in 40 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union, representing 20 percent of the world’s total polities. Authoritarian states including Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and Vietnam became more [...]
Kaveh Ahangar, a blacksmith, is a mythical figure in Iranian mythology who leads a popular uprising against a ruthless foreign ruler, Zahhak. Kaveh is the most famous of Persian mythological characters in resistance against despotic foreign rule in Iran. After losing 18 of his sons to Zahhak’s serpents, he rebels against the [...]
Flickr is one of the best online photo management and sharing applications on the net. This year we have looked over hundreds of photos and here are our top ten photographs posted on Flickr in 2009. It will be fun to see what has attracted viewers in 2009. Participation criteria for the [...]
The study examines restrictions on religion which originate from both government policies and social hostilities undertaken by private individuals, organizations and social groups. Topping the government restrictions index were Saudi Arabia, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Egypt, Burma, Maldives, Eritrea, Malaysia and Brunei. At the top of the social hostilities index were Iraq, [...]
Twitter grabbed the spotlight in June when it became a primary source of news and communications as Iranian citizens took to the streets to protest the disputed election. It should be no surprise that in Twitter’s analysis of keywords the topic that came up most in 2009 was Iran. Abdur Chowdhury, Twitter’s [...]
San Francisco City Supervisior Ross Mirkarimi will unveil renown sculptor, Paula Slater’s bronze portrait sculptures of Sohrab ‘Freedom Warrior’ and Neda ‘Angel of Freedom’ on December 12th in San Francisco as part of “Arts United 4 Iran”. Master sculptor, Paula Slater, who sculpted the much beloved bronze portrait sculptures of Neda ‘Angel [...]
"I'm Still Waiting" by Sophia Gasparian Los Angeles, December 12 7:30pm
Levantine Cultural Center presents an extensive roster of artists and performers in “Artists for Iran,” a celebration of the arts and human rights in conjunction with United4Iran.org, which is coordinating related programs in [...]
Iran has fallen from 141st on the list of 180 countries to 168th – one of the most marked declines. Countries where the political and security environment is particularly volatile, such as Yemen, Iran and Iraq rank at the bottom of the list. These countries face the challenge of establishing solid and [...]
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