Demonstrators burned photographs of Barack Obama today as they protested against America’s inaction over Gaza.
Dozens of people gathered in Tehran waving Palestinian flags and defacing and setting fire to images of the President-elect.
To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.’s flagship agency, the multibillion-dollar globe-girdling United Nations Development Program, dedicated to promoting good governance and ending poverty, the U.N. has now picked–wait for it–the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“In the months ahead, Tehran will likely seek to influence Iraq by identifying and supporting pro-Iranian individuals and parties in their bids to win upcoming elections,” the report said.
Investigators found an e-mail indicating that Iranian interests were trying to buy tungsten, which is used for making long-range missiles, the paper cited Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau as saying.
In the past 3 years, this Foundation has granted several hundred thousands of dollars to Rutgers University’s Hooshang Amirahmadi operation. Amirahmadi is the president of Middle Eastern Studies in Rutgers. Interestingly, he also founded the American Iranian Council in 1997 and launched a large scale lobby and campaign to lift the pressure off the Iranian regime.
Last Tuesday, the United States State Department expressed its worries about the detention and questioning of Glen Schweitzer, a well-known American educator, that took place about a month ago in Iran.
The stonings contradict an official claim that Iranian authorities had put an end to the practice, a form of capital punishment considered barbaric by the international community. On 5 August 2008, Iranian Judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi claimed that all stoning sentences had been stopped and the punishment would no longer be carried out.
Charges are : Insulting the national and Islamic symbols and actions that are considered to be against the regime of the Islamic Republic”. All students had been called before the disciplinary committee for their role in the gatherings held on December 6th and 8th in Shiraz University.
Carlos Zaccagnini, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), criticized the decision by the Iranian government and demanded its repeal. Mr. Zaccagnini said: “Refugees in Iran are entitled to education until high school, and many of them have even completed their higher education in Iran, which is commendable.
The crowd destroyed the law practice sign and began crushing it under their feet.
