Iran: No Tight Jeans, Tramp Stamps or Tight Overcoats For You

Iran bans bright clothing for women on university campuses
Another hallmark of bad government facilitated by Sharia: it's much easier for a regime to look busy and productive by using the long arm of the law to mind citizens' business for them in minute detail than to deal with more substantive problems like Poverty and crumbling infrastructure. Those aren't the real problems, of course. No, it's bright clothing that's really holding society back. And under Sharia, Iranian officials can invoke divine authority to order their priorities as such: "gove...

Iran: No Tight Jeans for You
Iran has enforced a stricter Islamic Dress Code at a number of universities including a ban on female Students wearing long nails, bright clothes and Tattoos, a local news agency reported on Monday. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nati...

A Memo to New Members
In my last column I was pretty tough on neoconservatives. It's only fair that I highlight it when one of them knocks the ball out of the park. That's what Clifford D. May--one of the progenitors of George W. Bush's Iraq policy, and later of the "Surge"--accomplished in his recent "Advice for new members of U.S. Congress." He offers incoming members of the 112th Congress "a very brief briefing" on the "global conflict" we face. It's admirable for its brevity and cogency. I will paste most of it...

Iranian human rights lawyer gets 11-year prison term, including 5 years for allegedly appearing in videotaped message without ve
One consistent hallmark of abusive laws is how often they lend themselves to being used to settle scores, to frighten a subjugated class into continued submission, or to pile on additional punishments out of sheer contempt. Sharia is replete with such examples. Pakistan's Blasphemy law is one such law, and here is another illustration of the cavernous gap between Sharia as advertised for Western consumption (where, for example, the Hijab is always portrayed as a personal choice) and Sharia as...

Iran to sue Israel in scientist's death
TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Iran plans to go to "international legal bodies" to sue Israel in connection with the death of a Nuclear Scientist, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. The comment by Ramim Mehmanparast came a day after Iran said it had arrested 10 suspects allegedly belonging to the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. Iran alleged the 10 were involved in the Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi in July last year. "We will definitely utilize all our m...

Iran has 'credibility gap,' IAEA says
BERLIN, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Progress is needed on nuclear transparency issues from Iran as the world community knows too little about its activity, the IAEA director said. Western allies claim Iran is using a civilian Nuclear Program to hide a more Controversial weapons program. Tehran, which sits on some of the largest Oil and gas deposits in the world, maintains its program is for peaceful purposes. Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told German news magazine Der Sp...

Iran says more than 10 suspects linked to Mossad
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi speaks with media during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Iran's intelligence chief is revealing more details about the investigation into last year's killing of a nuclear physicist. He says more than 10 suspects have been arrested and all were members of networks linked to Israel's Mossad spy agency. Iran's intelligence chief said Tuesday that more than 10 people arrested in connection with last year's killing of a nuclear...

Iran says more than 10 suspects linked to Mossad
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s intelligence chief said Tuesday that more than 10 people arrested in connection with last year’s killing of a nuclear physicist were linked to the Mossad and he warned that Israel’s spy agency was out to roll back scientific progress in Muslim nations. Heidar Moslehi revealed few new details to bolster the claim a day earlier that Iran’s Probe into the killing had led its agents to infiltrate the Mossad. He did not say exactly how many peo...

Iran says more than 10 suspects linked to Mossad
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's intelligence chief said Tuesday that more than 10 people arrested in connection with last year's killing of a nuclear physicist were linked to the Mossad and he warned that Israel's spy agency was out to roll back scientific progress in Muslim nations. Heidar Moslehi revealed few new details to bolster the claim a day earlier that Iran's Probe into the killing had led its agents to infiltrate the Mossad. He did not say exactly how many people were arrested but accused...

Iran claims to have penetrated Mossad operations
As I reported earlier, Iran claims to have arrested ten people in connection with the liquidation of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, an Iranian Nuclear Scientist who was liquidated last January in Tehran. On Monday night, they put one of the alleged 'Terrorists' on Iranian television where he 'confessed' that he had been trained by the Mossad in Israel in placing bombs alongside cars. But did Iran really penetrate the Mossad's Iranian operation? Obviously, no one here in a position to know is saying. Y...

'Israeli spies' are arrested in Iran
Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to Israel's Mossad intelligence service which it blames for the Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Masoud Ali-Mohammadi in 2010. A remote-controlled bomb killed the scientist in Tehran on 12 January last year. Iran blamed the United States and Israel for the killing, a charge Washington has rejected as "absurd". ...

Iran Claims Covert Operation Penetrated Israeli Spy Agency
Tehran, Iran — Iran's intelligence chief said Tuesday that more than 10 people arrested in connection with last year's killing of a nuclear physicist were linked to the Mossad and he warned that Israel's spy agency was out to roll back scientific progress in Muslim nations. Heidar Moslehi revealed few new details to bolster the claim a day earlier that Iran's Probe into the killing had led its agents to infiltrate the Mossad. He did not say exactly how many people were arrested but accus...

IAEA Chief: We Cannot Say That Iran Is Pursuing A Nuclear Weapons Program
IAEA Chief: ‘We Cannot Say That Iran Is Pursuing A Nuclear Weapons Program’ Discussing Iran’s Nuclear Program in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel, International Atomic Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano is careful not to suggest that the IAEA knows more than it actually knows: SPIEGEL: According to the most recent estimates, Iran is only a year away from building a bomb. Amano: I’m not so sure about that. Despite all unanswered questions, we cannot say that...

Author Coelho says books banned in Iran
Brazilian author Paulo Coelho says his books were banned in Iran. Brazil's Foreign Ministry says Tuesday it's looking into the matter. It was not possible to confirm a ban with Iranian authorities and the country's Embassy in Brazil did not comment. Coelho says on his blog that his publisher informed him of the ban on Sunday. The author says he'll make his books available for free in Farsi on his blog. Coelho's publisher in Iran is Arash Hejazi. Hejazi is also a doctor who in 2009 was seen in fo...

The Meaning of the Black Flag of Jihad
A reader emailed this morning and asked me to post the meaning of the text shown on the Black Flag of Jihad. I don’t read Arabic myself, but I’ve been told that the flag displays the shahada, the basic statement of the Islamic faith: “La illaha ila Allah, wa Muhammadun rasul Allah.” “[’ašhadu ’an] la ilaha illa-llah, wa [’ašhadu ’anna] muhammadan rasulu-llah.” “[I testify that] there is no god (ilah) but Allah, and [I te...

British Islamist: "Behead Democracy" and Replace It With Islam
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has posted video of a British Islamist urging Muslims to "attack" Prime Minister David Cameron and to replace Democracy with Islam. Speaking at last month's Islamic Awakening Conference in Great Britain, a Salafist named Abu Mounisa emphasized the need to impose Islam on British society. "Our da'wa should be the da'wa that attacks their system, and we replace it with Islam," Mounisa said. Muslims "need to attack" Cameron and tell society: "Your l...

Russia says considering Iran fuel sites offer
Moscow | Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:51am EST Moscow (Reuters) - Russia is considering Iran's invitation to visit nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic but has questions about the offer, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday. "We received this initiative with interest," Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow. "We believe that the Iranian side has demonstrated readiness to enter a certain dialogue on important issues." "But we have our own questions and desires on this account. All thes...

Iran warns neighbors not to aid Israel
By Parisa Hafezi Tehran | Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:28am EST Tehran (Reuters) - Iran warned neighboring countries not to help its arch-foe Israel, one day after announcing it had rounded up a spy ring linked to Israel which it said had assassinated an Iranian Nuclear Scientist. Israel has not ruled out Military strikes on the Islamic Republic if diplomatic efforts fail to stop Tehran trying to build Nuclear Weapons. Iran has vowed to retaliate with Missile Strikes on Israel and U.S. targets in the G...

Iran rounds up Christians in crackdown
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested about 70 Christians since Christmas in a crackdown that demonstrates the limits of religious tolerance by Islamic leaders who often boast they provide room for other faiths. The latest Raids have targeted grass-roots Christian groups Iran describes as “hard-liners” who pose a threat to the Islamic State. Authorities increasingly view them with suspicions that range from trying to convert Muslims to being possible footholds fo...

Iran: Bahais threatened, accused of supporting Israel and the U.S., offered dhimmi status
The Baha'i faith has its headquarters in Haifa, Israel. Its presence there, established after its followers were persecuted in Iran and other Muslim lands for heresy, predates the State of Israel by decades (worth noting: whose tolerance has allowed a flourishing Baha'i presence since 1948, and whose "tolerance" has not?), but that certainly won't stop Iran from accusing them of being Zionist agents. And it won't stop them from persecuting the Baha'i as infidels. The subjugation of unbelievers...

America and the rise of middle powers | Stephen Kinzer
The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010. Iran's emergence as a serious regional power was another. They are harbingers of what will be one of the main trends of global power in coming decades: the rise of middle powers. This era is an exciting one for rising countries. Their drive to assert themselves, though, poses an inevitable challenge to powers accustomed to dominating the world, chiefly the United States. One of the i...

Iran rounds up Christians in crackdown
Iran has arrested about 70 Christians since Christmas in a crackdown that demonstrates the limits of religious tolerance by Islamic leaders who often boast they provide room for other faiths. The latest Raids have targeted grass-roots Christian groups Iran describes as "hard-liners" who pose a threat to the Islamic State. Authorities increasingly view them with suspicions that range from trying to convert Muslims to being possible footholds for foreign influence. Christian Activists claim their ...

Angella Nazarian: The Fabled Prince of Iran, Ali-Reza Pahlavi
Last week I was having lunch with a longtime friend, who happens to be a Professor of Political Science. We chuckled over how differently we register the world around us. "I look at things more from a broad, economic or political angle, you know," she said, tapping me on the shoulder lovingly, "But for you -- your vision is funneled through the human experience." She was right. And she proved me right again a few days ago when I heard of the tragic an untimely death of Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi,...

SPIEGEL Interview with IAEA Head Yukiya Amano: 'We Still Know Too Little about Tehran's Nuclear Activities'
A possible Nuclear Program in Iran, atomic weapons in North Korea and instability in Pakistan: It is not an easy time to be head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. SPIEGEL spoke with new IAEA head Yukiya Amano about the challenges he faces and the dangers eminating from Tehran. SPIEGEL: Mr. Director General, according to the diplomatic dispatches made public by Wikileaks, US Diplomats in Vienna described your election as their own "victory" and as a "reinforcement of our influence" on ...

Tuesday's intriguing people
He did it all in the name of fighting Blasphemy. Qadri's supporters consider him a hero for defending Islam. His home is now a shrine, and he was been showered with rose petals by lawyers when he appeared in court, according to the Washington Post. Monday, the 26-year-old policeman pleaded guilty in a Pakistani court to murdering Salman Taseer, Punjab’s provincial Governor. Qadri said he killed Taseer because of the governor’s opposition to Pakistan̵...