Iran’s Space Jam
Press TV reports that Iran has launched a rocket capable of putting a satellite into space, this time equipped with living organisms. The worms, two turtles, and rat were monitored by video transmission aboard Kavoshgar-3, and were studied by scientists upon their return to earth. “Projects that we inaugurated are mostly on the very edge […]
Tehran dismisses another US sanction
Last Thursday the US senate passed a broad, indiscriminate sanctions bill that would restrict Iran’s importation of petroleum; predictably this move was promptly dismissed by authorities in Tehran. It is reported, (via www.presstv.com) that Ramin Mehman-Parast, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that the US will not persuade Iran to […]
Iranian American pushed to center stage in show trial
State-funded Press TV reports on the latest person to be targeted in the trials today: Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh. Predictably, the forced confession describes a conspiracy to overthrow the Islamic Republic led by Iran’s top reformists. In a Tuesday court session in Tehran, Tajbakhsh, a former member of the Soros Foundation in Iran, said in […]