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Arab body wants withdrawal of Syria monitors

An advisory body to the Arab League has called for the immediate withdrawal of the group's observer mission in Syria, saying its monitors are inadvertently helping the government cover up continued violence.

2 January 2012
Iran

Iran fires radar-beating missile during Gulf drill

Iran test-fired a new medium-range missile, designed to evade radars, on Sunday during the last days of its naval drill in the Gulf, the official IRNA news agency quoted a military official as saying.

2 January 2012

The U.S. Drone: Iran's Potential Gift to Russia

Iran claims to have forced down a sophisticated U.S. spy drone on December 4. Nine days later, President Obama formally asked for its return, a request that was met with an official sneer from Tehran. Top Iranian military brass made clear…

1 January 2012
Iran

Qatar well ahead of Iran in tapping gas field

- Qatar extracts as much as three times natural gas more than Iran from the South Pars gas field. So, investments should be directed toward developing the South Pars phases in order to compensate shortcomings, the managing director of the…

1 January 2012

The Arrests of 2009 and Khamenei’s Orders

Even though some senior officials of the Islamic republic of Iran had previously implicitly acknowledged that the massive arrests of political and civil activists and street protestors in Tehran after the massively disputed 2009 elections…

1 January 2012
Iran

Iranian women banned from kick boxing in Iran

According to new orders, from now on women are banned from participating in all kinds of sport competitions that are held in rings including kick boxing and Muay Thai and federations who cover these sports have to pay close attention to…

1 January 2012
Iran

Iran's House of Cinema ruled illegal

The Iran Public Culture Council (IPCC) has ruled the Iranian House of Cinema (IHC) is illegal, the Persian service of FNA reported on Wednesday. The decision was made during an IPCC meeting, which was held to settle a lawsuit filed against…

1 January 2012