payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news News about Iran and Iranians delivered by payvand.com en-US Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:30:33 PST Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:30:33 PST http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1219.html In a vote of 74 in favor, 48 against and 59 abstentions, the General Assembly committee responsible for social, humanitarian and cultural affairs - known as the Third Committee -adopted the resolution co-sponsored by Canada and 41 other countries. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1219.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1222.html Iranian authorities have finally closed the file of Ramin Pourandarjani, the physician who examined some of the victims of the alleged torture and violence in Kahrizak detention centre. The physician passed away on Tuesday at his retreat in the medical building of Tehran Security Forces and at the time, the cause of his death was announced to be "heart failure during sleep." payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1222.html http://payvand.com/news/09/nov/1216.html Make no mistake. The campaign against NIAC and Parsi by the Israel lobby and the neocons, aided by Iranian monarchists and the MKO, is in fact a campaign to silence anyone and any group that opposes crippling sanctions and eventually war with Iran. -Muhammad Sahimi payvand.com http://payvand.com/news/09/nov/1216.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1227.html Clippers TV announcers Ralph Lawler and Michael Smith were suspended one game for their comments in Wednesday's game about Memphis' Hamed Haddadi.Lawler and Smith made their off-the-cuff comments about the Iranian-born center during Wednesday night's telecast from Memphis. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1227.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1228.html Mehdi Sahabi was born in 1943 in Ghazvin and died last week in Paris. He was buried last Thursday at the artists plot in Beheshte Zahra. Many well known art and literary figures were present for his funeral. He was one of Iran's best known and respected translators and usually translated from French but also from Italian and English. -Syma Sayyah, Tehran payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1228.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1218.html The United States and five leading world powers meeting in Brussels expressed disappointment Friday that Iran had not accepted a uranium enrichment offer, even as the outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency urged Tehran to agree to the plan. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1218.html http://payvand.com/news/09/nov/1215.html Iranian scholar Mohammadreza Hakimi declined the achievement award offered to him by the third Farabi International Award in Iran, in protest to the "poverty and the visible and invisible deprivation" in Iranian society. Mr. Hakimi told Award organizers that he believes holding such ceremonies when "poverty and deprivation" are rampant in Iran are of the least priority. payvand.com http://payvand.com/news/09/nov/1215.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1226.html Iran volleyball team was narrowly beaten by Japan in the FIVB Men's World Grand Champions Cup on Saturday. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1226.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1220.html A decades-old conflict in Yemen between the government and northern rebels from the country's Shi'ite minority is heating up. As it does, Yemeni officials are charging Iran with supporting the rebels in a conflict that is also drawing in Saudi Arabia. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel speaks with RFE/RL's Radio Farda correspondent Hossein Aryan about the fighting in Yemen and whether it risks sparking a larger regional crisis. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1220.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1221.html Iranian human rights advocate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi said she has been receiving death threats, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 and who is currently outside of Iran, told RFE/RL that Iranian security agents have warned her husband that she "is not safe no matter where in the world she is." payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1221.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1225.html Tehran's Eshraq Cultural Center will host the first edition of a mime festival from February 6 to 9. The festival was planned to be held in summer 2009 but was postponed due to financial problems, the festival's organizer Bahram Reihani told ISNA. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1225.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1217.html Iranian officials say defense forces will practice aerial defense maneuvers against a simulated enemy next week to prepare for any attack against the country's nuclear facilities. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1217.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1223.html Senator Charles Schumer made a surprise appearance at the sold-out "Iranian Sounds of Peace" concert featuring Hafez and Shahram Nazeri at New York's famed Carnegie Hall on November 14th. In a short speech given during intermission, Senator Schumer took the opportunity to thank Iranian Americans for their contributions to American society. "America and New York are so much the better for it". payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1223.html http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1224.html The Kuwaiti prime minister arrived in Tehran on Saturday at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation. He is accompanied by the ministers of foreign affairs, oil, energy, commerce and information as well as officials from the Arab country's investment organization. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/09/nov/1224.html