payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news News about Iran and Iranians delivered by payvand.com en-US Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:20:43 PDT Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:20:43 PDT http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1111.html Ardeshir Mohassess, the legendary Iranian cartoonist and illustrator, passed away at his home in New York on the afternoon of October 9, 2008. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1111.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1107.html With wars on both sides of Iran, will the West attack Iran and plunge the strategically vital but combustible Middle East into a third war? Or can diplomacy intervene to avoid a clash that will likely ignite a wider war? --- Saturday October 18 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1107.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1102.html PARSA Community Foundation is delighted to announce that Golestan Kids (Golestan Center for Language Immersion and Cultural Distribution) has been featured on the front page of the Oakland Tribune today payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1102.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1105.html On Thursday October 2nd and Sunday October 5th, Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) held its first two event in Southern California-in Los Angeles and Orange County respectively-to introduce the organization to the Iranian American community in the area. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1105.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1104.html A new espionage thriller tracks a key American intelligence agent in the Middle East as he attempts to balance ideology with reality, on the front lines of the war on terror. Ridley Scott directs the adaptation of a best-selling novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. Alan Silverman has this look at Body of Lies. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1104.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1106.html Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh master of the Nimatullahi Sufi order passed away in Banbury Oxfordshire at the age of 82. In Iran alone there are over two million Sufies of various Orders and creeds. The Nimatullahi Sufi order is the most wide spread Sufi Order in Iran which also has branches in Europe, Africa, U.S.A. and Australia. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1106.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1108.html Iran's Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday that more than 20 billion dollars are needed to be invested in the country's oil refining industry. Nozari made the remarks in his address to the opening ceremony of the second Iran International Oil Refining Forum that began in Tehran on October 11. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1108.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1103.html The United States and India Friday signed an accord allowing U.S. firms to sell nuclear fuel and technology to India, reversing a three-decade ban on such trade. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee signed the accord in Washington. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1103.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1109.html Iran on Friday protested to Britain against release of a terrorist who was involved in the 1980 attack on the Iranian Embassy in London, saying that the release will affect relations between the two countries. -IRNA payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1109.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1110.html Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler said here Friday negotiations for buying natural gas from Iran aimed at finalizing a contract still continue and "I will visit Tehran to sign it when it is finalized." -IRNA payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1110.html