Tehran - Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform movement's last real means of keeping its campaign alive. » Read more on google.com mehr...

The 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced Hessam Salamat, a master's student at Tehran University, to 4 years in prison. Salamat was among the large group of activists arrested after the presidential election. » Read more on persian2english.wordpress.com mehr...

New Delhi - House of Saddam gets Emmy for Shohreh Aghdashloo. House of Saddam is a 2008 drama that charts the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein. A co-production between BBC Television and HBO films, the series was first broadcast on BBC Two (in the United Kingdom) in four parts between 30 July and 20 August 2008. » Read more on khabrein.info mehr...

First there was Neda. Then there was Sohrab. Now there is Taraneh. The names and stories of the Iranians who have been brutalized or killed in the aftermath of the post-election protests are gradually seeping into a memorial vault of the faces of suffering and endurance in the name of sociopolitical reform. » Read more on huffingtonpost.com mehr...

The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime. » More on guardian.co.uk mehr...

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the pragmatic-conservative Iranian politician, head of Iran's Expediency Council and former president of Iran, will lead Friday prayers in Tehran on July 17, according to Mir-Hossain Mousavi's Facebook page. » More on wikinews.org mehr...

The Austrian capital is set to unveil a pavilion featuring the statues of four prominent Iranian figures in front of the United Nations Office. Highlighting the Iranian architectural features, the pavilion is adorned with Persian art forms and includes the statues of renowned Iranian scientists Avicenna, Abu Rayhan Birouni, Zakariya Razi (Rhazes) and Omar Khayyam. » Lesen Sie weiter auf presstv.com mehr...

In 2003, administrators at Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult Ph.D. entrance exam, getting some of the highest scores ever. That the whiz kids weren't American wasn't odd; students from Asia and elsewhere excel in U.S. programs. The surprising thing, say Stanford administrators, is that the majority came from one country and one school: Sharif University of Science and Technology in Iran. » Read more on newsweek.com (pi) mehr...

Yasaman Farzan of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) has received the prestigious IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Particle Physics. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has chosen Dr Yasaman Farzan of IPM as the winner of the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Particle Physics in 2008. This prize which is a recently established one, will be awarded every two years in the field of particle physics, preferentially one to a theoretical and one to an experimental young particle physicist of outstanding scientific achievements. The 2008 prize is the first IUPAP prize in the field of particle physics. Yasaman Farzan is the winner of the theoretical IUPAP prize. mehr...

Tehran - The Iran Khodro Powertrain Company (IPCO) will unveil its most advanced dual-mode hybrid engine, the National Engine, on the first day of Engine Expo 2008, which is being held in Stuttgart, Germany from May 6 to 8. IPCO Managing Director Mohammad Zali announced that the National Engine, which runs on both natural gas and gasoline, was designed and produced three years ago in Iran and now has the ability to compete with other modern engines since it observes the Euro 4 standard for air pollution. » Read more on tehrantimes.com (pi) mehr...