payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news News about Iran and Iranians delivered by payvand.com en-US Thu, 15 May 2008 08:11:04 PDT Thu, 15 May 2008 08:11:04 PDT http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1140.html THE FILM: Global Moms Iran (working title) took filmmaker Justine Shapiro, a Jewish American mom, and her six-year-old son Mateo to Iran. Before she became a mom, Justine's work as a documentary filmmaker and as host of GlobeTrekker, an internationally televised travel series, took her off the beaten track to more than 40 countries around the globe. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1140.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1139.html Last Friday, for an official function, I had to go to the Artists Forum (Khaneh Honarmandan) in Iranshahr Street in the middle of Tehran. It was a lovely spring day full of sunshine and a nice gentle breeze to enlighten one's heart. But what made me even more pleased that afternoon was that the Artists Forum, which is usually closed on Fridays, was full of life, activities and people from all sorts and backgrounds, men, women, old, young. -Syma Sayyah, Tehran payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1139.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1147.html Secretary-General of the Ferdowsi Foundation Yaser Movahhedfar announced that the foundation will offer an official proposal to UNESCO for the naming of 2009 as "Ferdowsi Year". payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1147.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1138.html When Iran's education sector marks Teacher's Day on May 1, it will stir many memories on a date that is resonant with history. This year, the date comes amid growing resentment among teachers at their low pay, but their ability to function as an organized pressure group remains constrained. -Shirzad Abdollahi, Tehran payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1138.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1145.html Iranian American Georgetown University graduate student, Kambiz Fattahi (GRD '08), filed suit against the university on April 29 in response to his forced removal from the university's 2007 commencement ceremony. -NIAC payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1145.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1146.html John Trikeriotis. The 47-year-old financial consultant who lives north of Baltimore with his wife and two kids knows a thing or two about the movie's story--the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans held off a vastly larger Persian army long enough for other Greeks to escape to fight again. -Darius KADIVAR payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1146.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1143.html The White House says security guarantees are not being considered in talks with Iran regarding its disputed nuclear program. -VOA payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1143.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1142.html Lebanon's government has reversed two anti-Hezbollah decisions that set off a week of sectarian clashes that left roughly 60 people dead and more than 200 wounded. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Beirut. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1142.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1141.html Saudi Arabia has charged Iran with seeking a coup in Beirut, and Tehran is sharply rejecting the charges. The war of words, which directly follows the recent street fighting in Lebanon, highlights a growing sense in Riyadh and some other Mideast capitals that Iran is building its influence in the region at their expense. -RFE payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1141.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1144.html Karimi said that many beauty saloons or other similar institutes that broadcast advertisement on foreign-based satellite TVs, have so far, been "identified and confronted" within the past few months with the help of Iran's police. -IRNA payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1144.html