Archiv für den Tag 17. Januar 2012
Iran News Round Up (Jan. 17)
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Eye on Iran: Iran Cracks Down on Dollar Trades
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WSJ: ”Iranian authorities sent police into the streets of the capital Monday to crack down on informal currency trading and support the rial, signaling Iranians’ heightened insecurity over their dwindling buying power and Tehran’s increasingly hard-handed efforts to stave off economic panic. The move follows last week’s steep Iranian Central Bank interest-rate increase, a bid to try to stem the growing demand for U.S. dollars in the country as the economy lurches amid fears over a new round of sanctions promised by the U.S. and Europe. Iran’s rial currency has declined 40% to 55% against the dollar on the black market since December. Iranian inflation, meanwhile, now exceeds 20% a month, according to the Central Bank.” http://t.uani.com/z1jygf
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Amir Hassan Cheheltan: Amerikaner töten in Teheran
© C.H.BECKEin Zyniker könnte behaupten, dass die islamische Revolution in Iran ein Segen war – nicht für die Vereinigten Staaten, aber doch für die Amerikaner. Nie sind so wenige Amerikaner in Teheran gestorben wie seit 1980 – schon weil seit der Besetzung der amerikanischen Botschaft keine amerikanischen Offiziellen mehr im Land waren. Aber wenn die Mullahs der US-AirForce die unbemannten Drohnen vom Himmel angeln, führen sie auf unblutige Weise ein bald hundert Jahre altes Katz- und Maus-Spiel fort: Das lernen wir in Amir Hassan Cheheltans geheimnisvollem Roman „Amerikaner töten in Teheran“.
Das Buch ist so schillernd und schwer zu greifen wie der Titel: Sind die Amerikaner hier Subjekt oder Objekt? Töten sie oder werden sie getötet? Im Roman geschieht, ganz wie in der Realität, natürlich beides. Aber: Ist es überhaupt ein Roman? „Amerikaner töten in Teheran“ erinnert über weite Strecken an eine Art Dokufiktion. Reale Ereignisse werden literarisch neu inszeniert, die Personen sind teilweise historisch, und einen Disclaimer suchen wir am Anfang des Buchs vergeblich. Read the rest of this entry
ALG II-Bezieher: Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe – Anerkennug ausländischer Bildungsabschlüsse
Die Kosten für die Übersetzung ausländischer Abschlüsse, Zeugnisse können sich Bezieher von ALG II-Leistungen vom zuständigen JobCenter erstatten lassen. Zuvor ist es notwendig, einen Kostenvoranschlag eines anerkannten Dolmetschers einzuholen. Dieser ist dann beim JobCenter zusammen mit einem formlosen Antrag einzureichen.
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A STORY FROM THE MEMORIAL: Mrs. Izzat Ishraqi
ABOUT AGE 57
NATIONALITY Iran
RELIGION Baha’i
CIVIL STATUS Married
EDUCATION primary School Diploma OCCUPATION unspecified occupation
RANK/POSITION — AFFILIATION — AFFILIATION civil society, ethnic or religious minority
CASE DATE OF EXECUTION June 18, 1983
LOCATION Adelabad Prison, Shiraz, Iran MODE OF EXECUTION hanging CHARGES Espionage; Religious offense Read the rest of this entry
Teheraner Bürgermeister sieht Gemäßigte bei Wahlen vorn
Bagher Ghalibaf (AFP, Atta Kenare)
Teheran — Teherans Bürgermeister Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf ist überzeugt, dass sein Lager der “gemäßigten Konservativen” im März als Sieger aus der Parlamentswahl hervorgehen wird. “Ich möchte kein Parlament, in dem sich die Fraktionen bekriegen, sondern eines, das die Nation auf den Weg von Fortschritt und Entwicklung führen kann”, sagte Ghalibaf im Gespräch mit der Nachrichtenagentur AFP. Read the rest of this entry
A Song of Global Hope: We Shall Overcome أغنية سوف ننتصر
Joan Baez sings “We Shall Overcome”, with some lyrics in Persian, for the people of Iran
The Latest from Iran (17 January): Questioning the Supreme Leader
0730 GMT: Questioning the Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi has damned the article by former Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Alaei, warning the Supreme Leader about the consequences of repression (sse 0545 GMT): “This piece had more effect than all acts by American enemies and infidels. All must obey the Supreme Leader.”
0720 GMT: At the Movies. Thomas Erdbrink summarises the excitement of Iranians over the Foreign Film victory of Ashgar Farhadi’s Nader and Simin: A Separation: Read the rest of this entry
Iranian government launches matchmaking websites
Clerics regard the way the young people of today choose marriage partners as sinful, and against Islamic law. And it seems now that the religious regime wants to impose its own standards on the very concept of marriage.
Shahrzadnews:Controversy regarding new matchmaking centres and dating agencies run by
the Iranian government is dominating the home news pages of the newspapers.
Clerics regard the way the young people of today choose marriage partners as sinful, and against Islamic law. And it seems now that the religious regime wants to impose its own standards on the very concept of marriage. According to the newspaper Khorasan, certain government agencies and civil servants have been commissioned to define new criteria for marriage, which will then be publicised in the national media. The plan has stimulated much debate between government officials and sociologists who regard it as outdated and pointless. Read the rest of this entry
Iran calls on Muslim women to set up global media organisations
Shahrzadnews: Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Sayed Mohammad Husseini has called on Muslim women to set up their own global media organisations in order to ‘combat the influence of Western culture.’ Speaking at the opening ceremony of the International Women’s Publications Fair, Husseini said that fifty current Iranian publications aimed at women deal with social and family issues.
Representatives of over fifty foreign and sixty Iranian publications had stands at the fair. The organisers said a resolution would be passed on the last day outlining future activities and plans.
In an attempt to challenge feminist ideas, Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s government has offered substantial funds to help women from Muslim countries study journalism.
Iran tracks dissidents via Facebook
Shahrzadnews:A former employee of the Iranian National Television and Radio organisation (IRIB) says the Tehran regime has doubled its efforts to track down dissident journalists and bloggers by infiltrating their Facebook pages.
Naimeh Namjou of the Iranian television station Jame-Jam had earlier contacted the BBC Persian service through her Facebook page, and as a result was able to leave Iran and join the BBC in London.
The Alborz news website reports that many of Iran’s journalists have joined the Facebook pages of Farsi-language media organisations operating in Europe and the Middle East, in the hope of finding work with them. Those who have succeeded in leaving the country have warned internet users at home to be extra vigilant about revealing their identity when logging onto foreign media websites.
The Iranian security forces have threatened to prosecute anyone who contacts foreign media organisations or provides them with information about life in Iran.
42 thousand Iranian agents operating in South America
Shahrzadnews:A former member of the Iranian Justice Department who defected to the West has revealed that over 42 thousand Iranians are in South America, ostensibly engaged in construction and trade, but in fact operating as intelligence agents.
American media and members of the U.S. Congress and Senate have long been aware of the activities in that part of the world of the Quds Brigade, part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
In a series of interviews given to a prominent US-based Iranian human-rights activist, Massoud Noghrekar revealed that officially these people are in South America to work as engineers on construction projects undertaken there by Iran.
According to the revelation, published on the Gooya.com news website, the brigade’s overseas operations headquarters are now located in Bolivia and Venezuela.
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