Iran's state radio revealed on Sunday that the countries leaders have officially brought online the countries first ever nuclear power plant, connecting it to the national power grid for a test run.
Quoting Mohammad Ahmadian, Iran's deputy nuclear ...
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Sarah Shourd, one of the hikers who was freed from captivity in Iran after it was determined by that countries officials that she was not in fact a spy has begun speaking out about the beatings that ...
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Since 2009, Iran has seen an ongoing internal ideological struggle between the government and the Green Movement, a wave of opposition to the Iranian regime.
So how can the Greens tip the scales in their favor and bring ...
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In Canada it was Remembrance Day and in the US it was Veteran's Day but in either case it was a time where we could pause and remember all that was, and continues to be given so that we ...
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The original post of these photographs of a village made up of caves said they were located in Afghanistan but a quick search on Bing shows that it is actually a village in Iran called Kandovan. Regardless ...
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According to Ernesto over at TorrentFreak it seems that Iranians have full access to all of the best software you could possibly want. Not only do they have access but that access is to a government sponsored ...
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Can you just imagine the phone call at Twitter WHQ when they were asked by the US State Department to hold off on a planned maintenance so that the voice in Iran could be heard around the ...
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A 4.9-scale earthquake that struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday local time has injured injuring at least 700, according to Iran State Media.
The quake struck at 2:56 am Iran Time and was ...
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They say that one picture is worth a thousand words. Well this picture is worth that and a lot more in my opinion. via Technovia
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As the news still continues to come out of Iran the government is trying everything it can, short of pulling the country’s Internet plug, of silencing the people. Part of that silencing unfortunately also ...
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A video that claims to show Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Iranian clerics planning to eliminate Iranian democracy has surfaced online.
The video is Farsi, so it's difficult to be 100% sure of its contents, however Iranian Twitter users ...
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As Barack Obama spoke out more harshly against the Iranian government today, officials in Iran booted two British diplomats for what was reported on state TV as "unconventional behavior."
A spokesperson for British PM Gordon Brown indicated the ...
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Images can become iconic extremely quickly, identifying movements with a visual is a powerful force in our visual world. What happens though when one of those iconic images turns out to be based on ...
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Middle Eastern news site Al Arabiya is reporting that the very foundation of modern Iranian government may be due for a re-write:
Iran's religious clerics in Qom and members of the Assembly of Experts, headed by Ayatollah ...
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Andy Plesser points to an interesting interview this afternoon that took place with a Holland YouTube user who took the infamous and iconic video of Neda meeting her fate at the hands of the Basij in Iran.
The ...
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As the reality sets in that what’s now being called the New Revolution and the Sea of Green shows no sign of receding, more in depth analysis seems to be coming out. The tail end of last ...
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For anyone following any of the reports coming our of Iran it isn’t very difficult to see that to potential for change is sitting on the cusp. It’s been bloody, it’s been violent and ...
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New details, an image and video of slain Iranian protester Neda Iran have found their way online.
According to reports from inside Iran, Neda was a 27 year old philosophy student who was attending the protests with her ...
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Iran's Guardian Council has found that the number of votes cast in 50 Iranian cities exceeded the number of people entitled to vote.
Iranian State media reported that the additional votes "could be over 3 million and the ...
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UK based citizen journalism agency Demotix has signed deals with some of the world's biggest media outlets to supply images from the protests in Iran.
Demotix acts as a middleman between citizen journalists and the media, collating and ...
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"Nada Iran," a young girl killed by security forces in Iran has become a martyr for the protesters who are still fronting the streets every day.
Footage of Neda, who has become know as Neda Iran (Neda is ...
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As Twitter gets proclaimed as the CNN of social media news reporting there are some things right now that old media does very well and one of those things is the political/social commentary cartoons. ...
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