Posts Tagged ‘Tehran’

Taming Globalization? Kebabs, Mini-Skirts and Meth Part I

Monday, May 17th, 2010
TEHRAN: For now, the Iranian regime has regained the upper hand over protestors who dispute both the June 2009 presidential election results and the mullahs hold on power. Morals squads venture forth once more to police the cosmopolitan, fashionable and uninhibited in the name of religion.

London Calling

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Iran and the UK have a long intertwined history — but familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt. Members of Prime Minister Mossadegh’s family went to school in Britain; even Ali Kordan, Ahmadinejad’s minister, apparently coveted an Oxford degree. By D. PARVAZ in London | 19 Aug 2009 [TEHRAN BUREAU] As far as being a stranger in a strange land goes, being an Iranian in the U.K. — well, London, specifically — feels oddly comfortable. But why is that? I’ve lived in U.S. for a decade, a

Floatin’ Powa News Service: The Gypsy Part of Town

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
American Muslims make up less than 1% of the Los Angeles Police Department's officers. But in an effort to improve its relationship with local Muslims, the department has just hired its first Muslim chaplain , writes Duke Helfand. Iranian FM Mottaki's address to the Foreign Ambassadors to Tehran Today, almost all intellectuals, youngsters and countries and especially those in the Middle East blame Britain for planting the nefarious seed of Zionism in the Palestinian lands. Mahmoud Ah