300 Versus 70 Million Iranians
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The hit film's depiction of the ancient Persians is being denounced in Iran as another American insult
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TEHRAN - Iran's leaders issued dual defiant statements yesterday, with the president announcing that the nation had 3,000 active centrifuges to enrich uranium, and the top ayatollah appointing a new Islamic Revolutionary Guards commander who once advocated military force against students.
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Darfur was about 10,000, blaming malnutrition and disease. He said the figure of 70,000 did not take into account deaths from violence.
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TEHRAN -- A quarter-century after U.S.-Iran relations collapsed, Iranians are angrier and more anxious about U.S. policy than at any time since 1979-81, when the United States took in the deposed and dying shah, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy and 52 hostages were held for 444 days.
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The seminar follows comments by IranÂs president, who said the scale of the genocide had been exaggerated.
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Iran wants to be a leader in the Islamic world, but it has often had to labor to unify its own people under one national identity.
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The 300 men filling out forms in the offices of an Iranian aid group were offered three choices: Train for suicide attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq, for suicide attacks against Israelis or to assassinate British author Salman Rushdie.
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Iran-China trade is expected to reach US$7 billion by the end of this year, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. Ali Hamzeh-Nejad, official of the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce was quoted as
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They are the shock troops of Iran&#39;s Islamic Revolution - the men who helped seize the US embassy a generation ago and bore the brunt of their country&#39;s eight-year war with Iraq.
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Israel's central Holocaust memorial  said on Tuesday over 2,000 people in Iran and thousands of  other people, including Iranians, had visited its new Farsi Web  site documenting the mass murder of 6 million Jews.
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With prices rising and the economy stagnating, Iranians view their President as less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats
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The Palestinian population in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem has grown about 30 percent in the past decade to 3.76 million, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 22--The number of civilians killed in Iraq last month reached a record 3,709, most of them the result of sectarian violence, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
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Description: More than 70 people -- the vast majority Iraqis -- have died at the hands of insurgents in Iraq in the past three days.
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Tens of thousands of civil defense volunteers held a rally Wednesday in Iran&#39;s capital city in a show of force designed to deter possible US or Israeli attacks on Iran&#39;s nuclear installations.
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Thousands of Iranians take to the streets after a call from a US-based Iranian TV personality.
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I watched the 60 Minutes interview of Iranian president Ahmandinejad with amazement. At the end of the interview he reminded the interviewer, Scott Pelley, that he was the president of a sovereign country. He wondered if the interviewer was an agent of the American government. Amazingly his question made sense. I wondered too. Transcript of interview: Part 1, Part 2. I tried to imagine CBS interviewing the President of the United States this way. I couldn't imagine that our President would sit for the full interview as the interviewer reminded him repeatedly that he hadn't directly answered the question as to whether Iran was producing a nuclear weapon or whether Iran was supplying arms to people fighting the US in Iraq. Ask once or twice, accept an incomplete even evasive answer, because that's how they interview politicians on American television. To hold Iran's president to a higher standard is hypocritical. I wouldn't have blamed Ahmadinejad if he had asked why Iranian weapons are any worse than US weapons. Wouldn't he have the right to object that the US had troops in Iraq, a country that borders his, with people who share his culture, religion, even his sect, but he didn't. There's no question that American soldiers are killing Shi'ites in Iraq, and perhaps there's no question that Iran is arming our enemies in Iraq, but so what? I don't see how what we're doing is any better, and when you consider that Iraq borders Iran, it's as if a foreign country were occupying Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. His interest in peace in Iraq is clearly greater than ours. He was much less adversarial than the interviewer, who was supposed to be disinterested. The president of a sovereign country, even one our country isn't friendly with, has no obligation to be disinterested.  The moment of greatest shame was when he asked Ahmadinejad if he admired anything about President Bush personally. I don't understand where the question came from, and why it wasn't edited out of the interview when Ahmadinejad declined (gracefully, I thought) to answer it. Is this somehow relevant to the conversation between our countries? Is this how a strong and respectful country learns about an adversary? Perhaps CBS should find out first first if Americans admire the man before we ask if others do.