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Iran Deploys Flying Stealth Boats

We may not have flying cars just yet, but Iran has apparently deployed three squadrons of flying boats that employ stealth technology.

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Iran's Sakineh Mohammadai Ashtiani to Be Stoned to Death for Adultery

Iran's Sakineh Mohammadai Ashtiani to be stoned to death for adultery.  Ashtiani is a 43 year old mother of two who has been in imprisoned since May 2006 for a conviction of adultery.  Ashtiani was sentenced to 99 lashes and later that year was accused of murdering her husband. ...

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Challenges Obama to Debate

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged United States President Barack Obama to a live, televised one-on-one debate to see which country has the best solutions for the world's problems."Toward the end of summer we will hopefully be there for the (U.N.) General Assembly and I will be ready...

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Iran Claims to Not Believe in Nuclear Weapons

Iran's supreme leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei held a press conference from the deck of the “Jamaran," Iran's newest naval destroyer in the Persian Gulf today. Ayatolla addressed claims that Iran has nuclear capabilities. The United Nation's evoked his actions when nuclear inspectors uncovered...

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Explosion Goes Off Near Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Motorcade

An explosion went off today only 100 yards from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's motorcade.   He was not injured in the blast.According to Ahmadinejad, "Stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me."Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was on his way to give a speech in Hamedan, south...

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Nuclear Summit Warns Iran's Recipe for Atomic Ingredients Within Year

Nuclear Summit warns Iran's recipe for atomic ingredients will be complete within a year. Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, delivered this news to a Senate Panel Wednesday. Burgess maintains that Iran could build one nuclear bomb within a year if...

The 13 Most Brutal and Inhumane Judicial Punishments Still Used Today

The 13 Most Brutal and Inhumane Judicial Punishments Still Used Today

Public StoningIranian courts still order public stonings, and those sentenced are often severely whipped before they are stoned. Women are buried up to their necks before a stoning. If convicted of adultery, Iranian law requires the stones not be too big or too small so that the probable death is...

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168 Die as Iranian Airliner Crashes

A Russian Made Iranian Passenger Jet with 168 people aboard flying from Tehran to Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia crashed into a field near the city of Qazmin which killed all its 168 passengers. This is Iran's worst air disaster in the last six years. The plane was a part of Caspian Airlines...

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Neda Soltani, 27-Year-Old Iranian Woman Shot

Amateur video of Neda Soltani lying dead in the street has become a symbol of Iran's opposition movement. The footage is less than a minute long and shows blood streaming from the Iranian woman’s nose and mouth. The images of her death have unleashed a stream of outrage at the administration’s...

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Who Are Kurds?

The Kurds are nomadic people who originally came from Southwest Asia particularly in the mountainous areas of Iraq, Turkey and Iran which they refer as the land of the Kurds or Kurdistan. The Kurds has an Indo-European feature and origin and whose lives revolve on herding livestock animals such as...