Iranian Actress Heads Into a Storm (Washington Post)
TEHRAN, Oct. 11 -- When Iranian movie star Golshifteh Farahani moved from Tehran to Hollywood, she didn't bring along her head scarf, which is obligatory in her own country.
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Sweden Says Iranian Dissident Will Not be Tortured if Sent Back (Payvand Iran News)
An Iranian woman's request for asylum for her and her two young daughters has been rejected by Sweden despite her contention she will be persecuted by the Iranian regime for her dissident activism.
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Iranian actor's bare hair ignites furor (Toronto Star)
TEHRAN–When Iranian movie star Golshifteh Farahani moved from Tehran to Hollywood, she didn't bring along her Islamic headscarf, which is obligatory in her own country.
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Posted: 13-10-2008 , 21:54 GMT (Al Bawaba)
Iranian sources quoted Monday by the Khurshid (Sun) newspaper saying that Lebanon's Hizbullah leader, Hassan Nasrallah had appointed Hashim Safi Al-Din, the chairman of the Shiite movement’s executive office as his successor, in case Israel succeeded in assassinating Nasrallah.
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Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Gulf/Arab World (Gulf Times)
TEHRAN: The Iranian capital’s traditional bazaar reopened yesterday following several days of strikes after the government announced the indefinite suspension of a controversial tax.
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Iranian Now V.P. of Firm that Made the Wild West (Payvand Iran News)
Wells Fargo is one of the few surviving American businesses from the days of the Wild West when it ran stage coaches and provided banking services for cowboys. The stagecoaches and cowboys are gone, but the banking system remains and one of the vice presidents of the modern firm is now an Iranian-American woman.
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Iran to seek OPEC oil output cut: minister (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Iran will ask for an oil output cut at an OPEC emergency meeting scheduled for mid-November in Vienna, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari told an Iranian newspaper.
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Iranian merchants resist new tax, accounting measures (Los Angeles Times)
As Iran's economy suffers from inflation and falling oil prices, the government's effort to increase revenue with a value-added tax on many items and more transparent bookkeeping meets resistance. Economic anxieties caused in part by the West's financial crisis have escalated tensions between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government and Iran's merchants as the country's economic lifeblood, ...
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Iranian moderate cleric declares presidential candidacy (Khaleej Times)
Tehran - Moderate cleric Mehdi Karroubi became the first candidate to officially declare his nomination Sunday for next June's presidential elections to challenge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Frost aids US war on Iranian pistachio (Payvand Iran News)
Iran may lose its place as the world's largest pistachio producer to the US this year, following a sharp decrease in the pistachio harvest.
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