August 22, 2006
Ansari, Anoushe in Space
http://www.anoushehansari.com/videos.php
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08/22/06
Daisuke Enomoto, a Japanese space tourist who had hoped to blast off on board a Russian rocket next month was deemed unfit for the trip on Monday, a Russian space official said, and Anoushe Ansari, an Iranian-American woman entrepreneur was most likely to replace him.
05/09/06
Kommersant: Russia Sends Iranian Female into Orbit
The Russian Federal Space Agency officially announced that Iranian born Anoushe Ansari (X prize) would travel in space on the Soyuz aircraft next spring. It is not an official Russian-Iranian flight, since Ms. Ansari, a U.S. citizen, is to fund the flight on her own to become the first female space tourist. The Ansari family is also well known for investing in space tourism projects.
See Also: Muslim Astronauts
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August 08, 2006
Iranian Pizzeria in North Pole
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A958838D-68A1-4B23-8F0E-062EBAE88544.htm
Go to Europe without Visa
The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has become a haven for immigrants, because an unusual treaty says they do not need a visa or permit to work and live there.
The Norwegian territory, roughly the size of Ireland and about 1,000km (600 miles) from the North Pole, is the only place in Western Europe with this unique facility. Longyearbyen is Svalbard's biggest settlement and has about 1,800 residents
Per Sefland, Norway's governor on the archipelago, said: "If you're able to find a job, you have the right according to the treaty to come here."
The treaty was signed by World War I victors in Paris in 1920. It gave sovereignty over Svalbard to Norway, conditional on there being no barrier to entry.
It states: "The nationals of all the high contracting parties [signatories] shall have equal liberty of access and entry for any reason or object whatever to the waters, fjords and ports of the territories."
Any signatory country can ratify the treaty at any time and those on the list include Chile, India, China, Romania, Venezuela and Afghanistan.
The treaty stands today and the visa-free rule has been extended.
"It has been a chosen policy so far that we haven't made any difference between the treaty citizens and those from outside the treaty," Sefland said.
It now has a university, hospital, school and hotels, restaurants and shops.
East Europeans also live and work in Longyearbyen and the pizzeria is run by Iranian brothers. In all, there are about 25 nationalities living in the town.
In the past, immigrants who have been refused a visa for mainland Norway have moved to Longyearbyen, lived there for seven years and been awarded Norwegian citizenship.
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March 21, 2006
Norouz in Central Asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4829542.stm
Central Asians celebrate Norouz, the Persian New Year
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November 21, 2005
Iranian-American Survey 2004
http://www.iasurvey.org/
Simply put, the goals & purpose of this project are to routinely update and maintain the most viable and realistic demographic profile of the Iranian-American Community.
One of the best uses of the demographic profiles is the ability to convince the US Census to include the appropriate ethnic category for Iranian-Americans.
This will allow the full resources of the census to become employed in including the Iranian-American community in it's findings for the first time.
One of the most important results of this will be the truest counting of Iranian-Americans. Currently the estimate varies greatly (as low as 380,000, as high as 3.2M). The true estmate will allow for a fuller mobilization effort, better political participation, as well as greater regional influence.
MIT - Iranian-American Survey 2005
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October 11, 2005
Iranian-American Survey 2005
http://web.mit.edu/isg/survey.htm
The MIT ISG Iranian-American Community Survey 2005 is an online survey on the social characteristics of the Iranian-American population, and tries to understand the different aspects of the community, including family Characteristics, inter-community and intra-community Interactions, cultural affinities, emotional ties to the homeland, and assimilation in the United States.
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June 15, 2005
Rafsanjani - BBC interview
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4097288.stm
Iran 'misled UN on nuclear work'
It's possible that at times, Iran has not reported its activities," Mr Rafsanjani told the BBC's Newsnight television programme.
The IAEA's report, due to be delivered on Thursday, says Iran has confirmed that it continued trying to make plutonium until 1998, having earlier told the agency such efforts had ended in 1993.
Tehran reportedly accepted later experiments had taken place in 1995 and 1998, after the IAEA confronted it with its analysis of its plutonium samples.
In his interview with the BBC, Mr Rafsanjani said the US had recently indicated it was willing to work with Iran.
He said the US had lifted obstacles to Tehran's entry into the World Trade Organization, had given consent to carry out limited nuclear enrichment and had agreed to sell it plane parts.
Mr Rafsanjani said Iranians who were dissatisfied with the political process in the country should be free to speak their minds.
"If they have reasonable points, we should accept them," he told the BBC. "If not, we should persuade them of our case."
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Sean Penn in Tehran
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000955320
Penn's Camera Confiscated in Iran
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Sean Penn in new role at Friday Prayers in Tehran
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Sean Penn, adopting the role of a journalist, scribbled in his notebook as Friday prayer worshippers in Tehran chanted "Death to America."
Penn, 44, in Iran on a brief assignment for the San Francisco Chronicle ahead of presidential elections on June 17, may be one of the best known faces in film, but he went unrecognized by the 6,000 faithful at Tehran University.
The actor, who visited Iraq before and after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and wrote an account of his second trip for the Chronicle, told Reuters he had decided to come to Iran because of growing tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Text of Statement by Sean Penn at News Conference in Baghdad
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June 14, 2005
AIAA bans Iranian Authors
http://www.suta.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=134
AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) bans publication by Iranian Authors
The following excerpt is from an email about an article printed on the website of SUTA (Sharif University of Technology Associations):
Another U.S. organization bans publication by Iranian authors
Dear University friends:
In our last announcement we informed you that AIAA has agreed to let authors from Iran participate in the conference in Toronto, but emphasized that their resolution passed on May 11, 2005 to ban publication of papers by Iranian authors will remain in effect.
SUTA started to publicize the AIAA policy that has already produced positive response results:
1-The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Science Magazine that helped us in publicizing IEEE/OFAC dispute agreed to report about it. The Chronicle has already published an article about it that you see here.
2- Radio Farda has asked Dr. Hojabri and AIAA President for an interview. The interview with Dr. Hojabri has been taped yesterday, but Radio Farda is waiting for the response of AIAA.
3-Iranian.com, an Iranian electronic newsletter reported also on Monday about AIAA policy:
4-Prof. Ken Foster who was also in IEEE dispute agreed to agreed to contact AIAA on our behalf. He has also warned us that another ruling about use of high tech equipment by those born in the embargoed countries is in coming.
5- National Iranian American Council has agreed to contact AIAA and warn them about legal consequences of their policy.
We have to use all our resources to end this policy ASAP.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Monday, June 5, 2005
American Society for Aerospace Science Halts Contacts With Researchers in Nations Under Embargo
By RICHARD MONASTERSKY
In a sharp contrast with other American academic organizations, the main professional society for aerospace engineers and scientists has decided to ban the publication of papers by authors in Iran and other countries subject to a United States trade embargo. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics will also forbid such scientists to attend the institute's conferences in the future.
In addition to Iran, the new policy applies to Cuba, North Korea, and Sudan. The institute has about 30,000 members, some 5,000 of them overseas. The only members in embargoed countries are in Iran, said Robert S. Dickman, the institute's executive director.
Iranian members were notified that they could not attend the institute's meeting in Toronto this week. But after receiving complaints that the members had already bought airplane tickets and booked hotel rooms, the institute last week waived the ban temporarily for the meeting.
The controversy follows a decision by the U.S. Treasury Department to clarify its rules about scientific exchanges with authors in embargoed countries. The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, known as OFAC, ruled last December that scientific exchanges with such authors were permitted. The ruling reversed a 2003 decision that had placed restrictions on communications with those authors.
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May 25, 2005
scientific research in Iran
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/story/2005/05/050524_si-scientific-research.shtml
An interesting article about the status of scientific research in Iran. IPM, IASBS, and Sharif University of Technology are listed among the top research centers in the country.
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May 23, 2005
President, by Nabavi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/story/2005/05/050505_nabavi_satire.shtml
Life of Iran's presidential candidates.
By Ibrahim Nabavi
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May 17, 2005
Kamal Kharrazi in Iraq
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/17/iraq.main/index.html
Old enemies Iran-Iraq talk border security - May 17, 2005
Iran's foreign minister, Mr. Kamal kharrazi, arrived in Iraq Tuesday with an olive branch, offering to assist the new Shiite-led government with security along their long common border and provide other help.
He is the highest-ranking representative from the largely Shiite Islamic republic to make an official visit to Iraq in the post-Saddam Hussein era. He met transitional Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who called the political message of the visit "very important."
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May 09, 2005
bbc - Iran to resume nuclear activity
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4531209.stm
Iran says it will resume uranium enrichment activities within the next few days, in a move which could put talks with Europe in jeopardy.
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April 28, 2005
bbc: Iran issues fresh nuclear warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4494125.stm
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March 31, 2005
US, Iran and Iraq relations
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/052504.html
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March 30, 2005
bbc: Iran opens secret nuclear plant
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4394177.stm
bbc: Iran opens secret nuclear plant
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bbc: N Korea football violence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4395117.stm
bbc: N Korea football violence
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