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Iran Cracking Down on Dress Code
If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!From Reuters:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police will launch a crackdown next month on small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes, Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The move indicates an expansion of a clampdown on [...]
India Snubs U.S. Advice, Befriends Iran
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
LA Times Compares Conservatives to Radical Iranians
Read Tim Graham’s point-by-point skewering of the article at NewsBusters. Funny, I think radical Muslims are more like the loonies at the far left of the political spectrum.
What Bloggers Write About in Iran
Columbia University’s John Kelly has just released research on the Iranian blogosphere. This map shows what bloggers talk about in Iran. Each dot represents a blog, and each color represents a topic. A dot’s size reflects the number of links that point to that particular blog.
From Reuters.
Iran is Acting Shady… Again
Curiouser and curiouser… Well, if that’s the case, let’s do something about it!
From The Astute Bloggers:
Iran is engaging in a proxy war with the United States in Iraq, adopting tactics similar to those it has used to back fighters in Lebanon, the United States ambassador to Iraq said Friday.
The remarks by the ambassador, Ryan C. [...]
Long-Range Missiles Found in Iran
Surprise, surprise. Long-range missiles have been spotted through satellite imagery in Iran.
From Hot Air:
The Iranians claim that the sites are used for commercial space projects, but Jane’s analysts say they are clearly military in nature. The sites have heavy military security and have continued to expand far past the needs of a commercial application for [...]
Fitna ‘Unproductive,’ says Dutch Jewish Group
From Haaretz.com [emphasis mine]:
The newly-released anti-Islam film by right-wing Dutch legislator Geert Wilders drew condemnations from the Netherlands’ Central Jewish Board, which Friday called the film’s focus on anti-Jewish preachings by Muslims “counterproductive” and “generalizing.” In keeping with Wilders’ belief in a Judeo-Christian partnership in the face of “the threat of Islam,” the 15-minute film, entitled “Fitna” - [...]
