Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi'ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art)
Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Is a Jewish newspaper intended only for a Jewish audience? Is its content only for "Jewish" topics and issues'Should local and regional newspapers be included? According to the historical Jewish press database detailed below, a Jewish paper will be written and published by Jewish writers and editors, which will necessarily include local and international events impacting its audience. In...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Debka is reporting that IAEA inspectors turned up evidence that Iran has a plutonium program in addition to its uranium program fro making nuclear weapons. The IAEA experts discovered 30 metric tons-IS of heavy water hidden in 600 tanks, each holding 13 gallons, according to the report they handed in last week to agency headquarters in Vienna. From the shape of the tanks and other indications, the...
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the UN inspectors’ October visit to Iran turned up dual-track progress in support of its nuclear weapons program: Feverish activity was registered in the production of plutonium at Isfahan as an alternative to the Fordo enriched uranium plant near Qom which starts up in 2011. DEBKAfile - Iran is advancing on [...]
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
No surprise here, Tehran doesn't believe sanctions will materialize and have buried the lion's share of their HEU stockpiles -- and accompanying centrifuge cascades -- in a massive underground complex near the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center. Isfahan, Tehran's version of...
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
TEHRAN ( Reuters ) - Iran has hanged two men and one woman convicted of smuggling drugs, the hard-line Kayhan newspaper said on Wednesday. Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and apostasy [leaving Islam] are all punishable by death in Iran under Iranian sharia law practiced since the 1979 Islamic revolution. "They were hanged inside a prison in Isfahan on Monday," the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Tehran - Three convicted drug traffickers, including one woman, were hanged in central Iran, the Tehran daily Kayhan reported Wednesday. The three were hanged on Monday in the city of Isfahan after their initial death sentences were confirmed by the ...
KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Iran Human Rights: Three people, among them one woman, were hanged in the prison of Isfahan (Central Iran) early this morning November 17. reported the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan. According to the report those executed today were: Vahid Sh. (35) convicted of buying and keeping143 grams crack (narcitics), Rasoul T. (age not mentioned) convicted of being involved in keeping 2 kg crack and Begam P....
KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A French teaching assistant who was arrested in Tehran on spying charges after Iran's disputed election appeared before a judge on Tuesday, the French Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Clotilde Reiss, who is out of jail on bail and staying at the French embassy, is accused of taking part in a Western plot to destabilise the Iranian government after the June 12 vote in which hardline President Mahmoud...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The IAEA wants to know if Iran has other nuclear secrets - starting with a uranium conversion plant A short note on the IAEA's report to its board of governors on Iran yesterday. It is marked by the impatient and sceptical language that has become an increasingly regular feature of the agency's Iran reports. That scepticism shines brightest in the section about the Qom enrichment plant which IAEA...
ReadingAdventures (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This week Historical Tapestry announced the start of a new challenge, the Alphabet in Historical Fiction . When I was trying to decide what I was going to post about for the letter A, I had a few options, but as soon as I realised that this book qualified, I knew this was it! I read and really, really enjoyed this book a couple of years ago, and I know that there were quite a few other historical fiction...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
P resident Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor. He announced the closing of Guantanamo in his first week on the job (though, ten months on, it remains open) to advertise the new administration’s disdain for George Bush’s war-fighting tactics. And at every opportunity since, he has stressed that his policies -- on taxes, on the Middle East,...
drew3000 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Iranian opposition demonstrators resumed mass street protests in Iran on the day traditionally reserved for state-run protests at the U.S. embassy and were hit with a bloody resoinse. Protests took place in Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan and elsewhere. The Guardian’s live blog has an account of how it all went. The enduring demonstrations in Iran are [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The opposition takes to the streets again THIRTY years ago, the world was mesmerised by pictures of 52 blindfolded Americans being taken hostage in their embassy in Tehran by Iranian students. This week’s anniversary provided more gripping scenes, as Iranians used the official celebration of that event to take to the streets once again, this time to protest against their own government and their...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Iran's opposition takes to the streets again THIRTY years ago, the world was mesmerised by pictures of 52 blindfolded Americans being taken hostage in their embassy in Tehran by Iranian students. This week’s anniversary provided more gripping scenes, as Iranians used the official celebration of that event to take to the streets once again, this time to protest against their own government and...
blogpig.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Khaju Bridge - Isfahan, Iran Built on the foundations of another bridge in approximately 1650 by Shah Abbas II, the Khaju Bridge is 105 metres long and 14 metres wide, it has 23 arches. It links the Khaju quarter on the north bank with the Zoroastrian quarter across the Zayandeh River. The Brooklyn Bridge - New [...]
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