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• Homecoming: Cylinder of Cyrus the Great arrives in Tehran << >>
  Hamid Baghai, head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization of Iran, announced that the Cylinder of Cyrus the Great has finally arrived in Iran after 40 years. -Zamaneh

  
  

  

• My name is Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy, and I'm The Next Apprentice - Thursday Sept. 16 at 9 PM NBC << >>
  Persian Assistant District Attorney trades the courtroom for the boardroom in this season of The Apprentice. No-nonsense New York prosecutor Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy competes for a job with Donald Trump beginning September 16, 2010 on NBC's hit series The Apprentice.

  
  

  

• Persian Wikipedia's Entries Pass the 100,000 Mark << >>
  The number of users of and contributors to Persian Wikipedia is by no means comparable to that of the English section. However, even with fewer numbers, the Persian language is now firmly established as part of Wikipedia: the free online encyclopedia that despite criticism is expanding everyday on the internet. -Pejman Akbarzadeh

  
  

  

• Dar be Dar - How freedom became a fashion statement << >>
  Tala Raassi spent most of her childhood under Islamic rule where the lives of women are severely limited. Fashion captured the young Raassi's true imagination and it wasn't long before she began choosing fashion books over school books

  
  

  

• Iran: "Tortured Confessions" Detailed from Inside Evin Prison << >>
  Abdollah Momeni, a prominent Iranian activist jailed since June 2009, has described being severely tortured, forced to make false confessions, and subjected to a "show trial" in a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Momeni is serving a four years and eleven months prison sentence in Ward 350 of Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

  
  

  

• Iran to Release Female US Hiker 'Very Soon' << >>
  The Iranian United Nations mission has confirmed that Tehran will release American hiker Sarah Shourd "very soon." In a statement Thursday, the second counselor to the Iranian mission, Bak Sahraei, said that "he would like to confirm that Iran will be releasing Sarah Shourd very soon."

  
  

  

• Exiled Iranian Blogger Critical Of Revolutionary Guards' Plan To Blog << >>
  Toronto-based opposition cartoonist and blogger Nikahang Kowsar told RFE/RL on September 8 that "I think members of the Revolutionary Guard are going to intervene in different social networks in cyberspace, as the government has found itself vulnerable in this field."

  
  

  

• Iran's Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi Doubtful About Inflation Reduction << >>
  "Constantly, figures are presented about the reduction of inflation, but this contrasts with what people see with their own eyes," the ayatollah told worshippers who had gathered in the shrine of Hazrat Ma'soumeh (SA) in Qom to hold Eid al-Fitr prayers.

  
  

  

• Iran denies running covert nuclear site << >>
  Iran's nuclear chief Ali-Akbar Salehi has denied allegations of a clandestine underground atomic site near the country's mega capital of Tehran. -Press TV

  
  

  

• China Opposes Unilateral Iran Sanctions << >>
  China has opposed unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, calling for a diplomatic solution on the issue. -Press TV

  
  

  

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