Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Read more · E-mail to friend
A pioneer in Iran's blogging community who spent time living in Canada may have been arrested in his native country, according to an unconfirmed local report. Read more · E-mail to friend
Two Iranian women work at an Internet cafe in Tehran in 2004. Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Read more · E-mail to friend
The UN atomic watchdog on Wednesday reported scant progress in its investigations into alleged nuclear activities in both Iran and Syria. In its first official report on Syria, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it could not yet determine if a building in a remote site bombed by Israeli planes last year was a nuclear reactor, as the United States claims. Read more · E-mail to friend
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For several years now, Hossein Derakhshan has been at the forefront of Iran's burgeoning blogging scene. Better known as Hoder he's been writing about the country and its politics online since - and, from time to time, he's also contributed to the Guardian . After living in Canada for some time, he recently headed back to Iran - where now, it seems, he's been arrested and accused of ... Read more · E-mail to friend
The issue of the United States-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), now pending before the Iraqi parliament after its approval by the Iraqi cabinet, is highly contentious not only in Iraq but also neighboring Iran, which has so much at stake with respect to the scope and duration of the presence of US forces in its vicinity. Read more · E-mail to friend
"The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the Internet," Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran`s prosecutor general, was quoted by Kargozaran newspaper as saying. Read more · E-mail to friend
Local travel expert Rick Steves lectures on Iran to Bellevue, Washington, audience; his trip will be the subject of a documentary to be released early in 2009. Read more · E-mail to friend
Despite recent glimmers of diplomacy, the United States and Iran remain locked in a cycle of threats and defiance that destabilizes the Middle East and weakens US national security.Today, Iran and the United States are unable to coordinate campaigns against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, their common enemies. Read more · E-mail to friend
