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July 26, 2024 - Q: Was Iran’s presidential contest free and fair?
Iran held snap presidential elections on June 28 following the May 19 death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter accident. The inability of any of the six candidates to attain more than 50 percent of the vote resulted in a July 5 runoff between the top two vote-getters: ultra-hardliner and former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and so-called reformist parliamentarian and former Health Minister Masoud Pezeshkian.
Pezeshkian prevailed and is set to become the ninth president of the Islamic Republic following official endorsement by the country’s supreme leader on July 28. A swearing-in ceremony before parliament is scheduled for July 30.
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July 25, 2024 - Iran has successfully penetrated global markets with its nuclear products and services, according to an announcement made by the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). The development marks a significant milestone in Iran's nuclear technology capabilities despite ongoing international sanctions.
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The announcement, made during an interview with Khamenei.ir, highlights Iran's efforts to break the monopoly in nuclear technology. Eslami emphasized the country's progress in producing and exporting nuclear goods, including heavy water and radiopharmaceuticals, which are now available on the global market.
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July 24, 2024 - On April 2, 2024, Ukraine’s military struck several buildings in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan region. The strike demonstrated Ukraine’s steadily improving ability to hold targets deep inside Russia at risk. But it was also a stark reminder of just how far Iranian-Russian defense cooperation has come since 2022: As of last year, Russia has indigenized the production of Iranian-designed Shahed drones at Alabuga — practicing a degree of cooperation with Tehran that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. The Shaheds and other Iranian-origin drones deployed by Russia have created a severe headache for Ukraine, leading its military planners to resort to the April strike.
July 23, 2024 - France should not provide a “reception and protection” to Israel‘s athletes at the Paris Olympics, according to Iran‘s foreign ministry.
“Announcing the reception & protection of the Apartheid & terrorist Zionist regime’s convoy only means giving legitimacy to the child killers,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry posted on social media.
That denunciation came in the wake of a hard-left French politician’s call on Monday to “mobilize” opposition to the presence of the Israeli athletes. Those comments “placed a target on the backs of the Israeli athletes,” according to a top French government official, a rebuke freighted with the memory of the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
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July 22, 2024 - The Biden administration adheres to the "two states for two nations" plan and sees it as a central component in shaping the Middle East post operation Swords of Iron. It appears that key players in the Israeli political system currently understand the impracticality of establishing a Palestinian state, which could become a hub for terrorism.
However, under American pressure and with time, some may agree to a division of land and the establishment of a Palestinian state. In the authors’ view, the establishment of a Palestinian state would pose an existential threat to Israel, as it could quickly become a platform for Iran and Hamas-led efforts to eliminate Israel.
On March 3, 2024, Faramarz Aslani announced on his Instagram page that he had been diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo treatment in the new year. He died of cancer at a hospital in Maryland, U.S, on March 20, 2024, at the age of 69.
Faramarz Aslani was born in Tehran, Iran. He was a graduate of London University's College of Journalism and wrote for several Persian and English publications since his graduation in the early 1970s. Upon returning to his native country, he worked for one of two English dailies, Tehran Journal until he was spotted by the President of CBS, in Tehran.
There just aren’t that many Iranian women in the art world,” says Shirin Neshat, the 66-year-old artist whose work in photography and film over the past 30 years has attracted acclaim and controversy in equal measure.
Talking with her friends, art adviser Nazy Nazhand and artist Sheree Hovsepian, she adds: “I think that the connection between the three of us is that we feel kind of rare in this community. We each play a role.”
All three women were born in Iran, but moved to the US in the 1970s and ’80s. In 1979, following the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Every Iranian woman is a threat,” says Shirin Neshat, “just by being a woman.” The artist is wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Woman, Life, Freedom”
– the slogan of the protest movement that erupted a year ago in Iran, following the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who allegedly flouted her country’s strict dress code.
Since 1981, veiling in public has been mandatory for every Iranian female over the age of nine, a law enforced by the “morality” police. Neshat, speaking via Zoom, turns the lens to show me the large, airy warehouse she works in. The artist, now 66, has lived in Brooklyn since the 1990s – longer than she lived in Iran.
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Historically, poetry was Iran’s most prominent cultural export. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, however, movies have carried the country’s artistic banner through the threat of censorship and the regime’s crackdown on filmmakers.
Iranian movies are unlike anything Hollywood produces: Many break the fourth wall in their attempts to shed light on the injustices of modern Iranian society because, in a country where you can expect to be arrested multiple times during your film’s production, movies are not simply artistic expression but rather an agent in a filmmaker’s life. Yet despite this (or rather because of it), many Iranian movies are difficult to view in the West.
فروغ فرخزاد به عقیده خیلیها به عنوان زنی تنها در آستانهی فصلی سرد، سالها از زمان خودش جلوتر بود.کسی که ایمان آورده بود به آغاز فصلی سرد ولی باز هم عقیده داشت بالاخره به آفتاب سلامی دوباره خواهیم کرد. فروغ را باید در شعرهایش دید وقتی برای نخستین بار یادمان آورد که “پرواز را به خاطر بسپار، پرنده مردنیست” و چه کسی است که نداند نجات دهنده در گور خفته است؟! فروغ فرخزاد زنترین زن شاعر تمام دورانهاست! او همواره به دنبال شکستن تابوها، زیر ذرهبین انتقاد و قضاوت بیرحمانهی مردمان نامهربان روزگار خویش بود. فروغ را بخوانید تا روح زنانهی زندگی را لمس کنید تا بفهمید چه ظلمها که در این منطقهی جغرافیایی بر تن زنانگی نرفته است. فروغ شاید بارزترین نماد انقلاب زنانهای باشد که سالهاست در قلب تمام زنان خاورمیانهی غمگین شروع شده است. باشد که این خانه دیگر سیاه نباشد و باشد که آنکس که ما را میبوسد دیگر در ذهن خود طناب دار ما را نبافد چرا که گیسوان ما بوی عدالت، آزادی و آزادگی میدهند. انقلاب زن، زندگی، آزادی و ۸ دیماه زادروز تولد فروغ فرخزاد مبارک!❤️🕊️🌹
انقلاب زن، زندگی، آزادی و ۸ دیماه زادروز تولد فروغ فرخزاد مبارک!❤️🕊️🌹
May 9, 2023 - Sanaz Toossi had just cleared security at the San Francisco airport when her cellphone rang at midday Monday. It was her agent, telling the 31-year-old playwright she had won the Pulitzer Prize in drama for “English,” her first produced play.
Toossi, who had written the play as a graduate school thesis project at New York University, was in disbelief. “I asked, ‘Are you sure?’ And when she said, ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘Could you please just double-check?’”
The prize was real, and as Toossi boarded the plane home to Los Angeles, her phone began buzzing with congratulatory messages not only from around the United States, but also from Iran, where her parents were born and where the play is set.
Mahsa Amini
Golden State Ballet principal dancer Tara Ghassemieh is used to taking command of the stage. From the Sugar Plum Fairy to the Black Swan, she’s tackled her share of lead and featured roles. But recently, she stepped into a new role: pacifist-activist.
Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar visits her homeland every year to mark the day that her parents were murdered in 1998.
She opens her family home in Tehran to dissidents and catches up on the latest developments.
Now back in her studio in Germany, she reveals her latest works and tells RFE/RL how her most recent trip to Iran revealed a society going through profound change that the regime was increasingly unable to control.
April 8, 2023 - It was incredibly risky to film or photograph the anti-government protests that swept Iran after the September death of Mahsa Amini. In the privacy of their homes and studios, however, some Iranian artists began to take inspiration from the scenes on the streets. Their work reflects the hope, turmoil and tragedy of the popular uprising and the violent crackdown that followed.
After months of rising repression, the demonstrations have died down in recent weeks. But the protest movement, and its slogan of “Women, life, freedom,” has changed the country after more than four decades of authoritarian clerical rule, prompting young Iranians to dream of a different future for their country — and to render it on canvas.
Mahsa Amini
Nazy Nazhand was born in Tehran in the 1980s in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. But she remembers the curfews, alarms, bombs and missiles of the Iran-Iraq war. She remembers feeling skeptical that taking cover in parts of the home she shared with her parents and her siblings would keep her safe. In 1985 her family arrived in Athens as refugees. In 1987 they immigrated to Alexandria, Virginia.
“It seems like somebody else’s past, to be honest,” she said, speaking in a Zoom interview from New York City, where she has lived for almost two decades. “But all the trauma comes back.”
The exiled Iranian is one of the world's most important artists, whose works also cover women's rights in Iran. She speaks about her new film "Land of Dreams" and the situation in Iran.
Shirin Neshat is an award-winning Iranian visual artist, whose works as a photographer and filmmaker have focused on women, identity, politics and Iran.
She's been living in exile in the United States since 1979. Her latest film, "Land of Dreams," will be released in German theaters on November 3. It is a fictional story about an Iranian woman balancing her Iranian past and the American culture she was raised in.
"Woman, Life, Freedom"
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In May 2023, Dr. Naderi experienced a life-altering event that resulted in paralysis from the neck down. He sustained a fall in conjunction with a cardiac episode. As a consequence, he suffered an extensive neck injury that involved damage to the spinal cord. The ensuing paralysis required surgical intervention, and some level of recovery was anticipated within a four to five month period. However, his twitter and Instagram accounts announced his unfortunate passing due to this incident on June 9, 2023.
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گزارشی درباره نایاک؛ صدای ایران یا لابی جمهوری اسلامی در آمریکا؟
،با درود
بدینوسلیه اعلام میکنیم وب سایت ایران تایمز یک رسانۀ اینترنتی مستقل با هدف پخش و بازپخش صدای آزادی خواهانۀ مردم ایران می باشد و به هیچ حزب و سازمان سیاسی وابسته نمی باشد
،با سپاس
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