Fred Petrossian · November, 2005

Latest posts by Fred Petrossian from November, 2005

Iran: Against Aids

  30 November 2005

Fanous, a collective blogger, on Thursday different Iranian associations will gather in front of Shahr Theatre to encourage people to fight against Aids and to protect HIV's people rights. (Link in Persian)

Afghanistan: Election

  29 November 2005

Afghanistan Warrior:Although 40% of the winners are former jihadi leaders and warlords, the finalized results show that more than 50 percent of the winners are the supporters of President Karzai so there is not a big challenge to the Karzai government.

Iranian Blogs: Unrest in University, Ahmadinejad in UN

  29 November 2005

Government chose a cleric and university Professor, Ayatollah Amid Zanjani, as chancellor of Tehran University. There are many questions and concerns about his education and conservative political background. Fanous ( Link in Persian), a collective blog, writes that Mr.Amid Zanjani has no university degree and government imposed his choice on...

Iran: BBC & a Mistake ?

  28 November 2005

Hanif Mazroi, a former jailed journalist & active blogger, says BBC made a mistake to say that new director , a cleric, of University of Tehran has no university degree. According to Mazroi he got his PhD in same university. (Link in Persian)

Iran:EarthQuake

  27 November 2005

(November 27 14:30 Brussels Time):According to BBC Several dead in south Iran quake :A powerful earthquake has hit southern Iran, damaging several villages and killing at least five people and injuring dozens more, officials say. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck Qeshm island, home to 120,000 people, and the city of Bandar...

Iran: Women & Violence

  26 November 2005

Feminist Iranian Tribute says Non violence day against women was a failure in Iran. A conference was organised by goverment and “specialists” asked women to tolerate violence. Link in Persian

Iran: Save Pasargad

  24 November 2005

Baily & Me, an blogger based in Denmark, urges Iranian and people around the world to get mobilized to save Pasargad Plains, an archaeological site, which will be gone under water because of a dam construction. Please Read More on Global Voices

Iran: Non Moslems are Animals!

  23 November 2005

Sharam Kholdi reports that according Shargh newspaper, Ayatholah Janati, Guardian Council's secretary, said “Humans who follow anything but Islam are the same as those animals who wander about and graze on the earth and commit corruption.”

Iranian Blogs: WSIS & Human Rights

  22 November 2005

Shirin Ebadi, Noble Laureate, was one of speakers in World Summit for Information & Society in Tunisia. According to Ravi(Link in Persian), Mrs. Ebadi spoke about censorship, jailed bloggers and filtering. She mentioned that Governmental NGOs are send to conferences to present false reports. She added unfortunately in some countries...

Afghanistan Blogs: Dead Poetess, Violence & Liberation

  21 November 2005

Guftugo ( it means dialogue), an Afghan blogger, writes about Nadia Anjoman, poetess who was murdered by her husband in Herat. Many say jealousy motivated husband to kill this young poetess. Guftugo say in dark Afghanistan's dark society men like women are oppressed. Guftugo asks himself how Nadia's husband could...

Iran:uranium enrichment

  21 November 2005

Alpar asks questions about uranium enrichment which has caused too many problems for country. Alpar asks which one is important uranium enrichment or cultural enrichment or people's life enrichment? What Iranian people think about uranium enrichment? Link in Persian

Iran: Media under Pressure

  20 November 2005

Omid Memarian, an Iran based blogger & journalist, writes ” Some of the journalists have changed the sections they used to cover. Some of them have changed their job and now they prefer to wait for the future”.

Iran: 25000 books got burned

  18 November 2005

Pejvake Khamoush (means silent echo), an Iranian cleric & blogger, writes “According to Mehr News agency 25000 books were burned after fire destroyed library of faculty of Law in Tehran university. (Persian)

Iran: We are Iran book

  18 November 2005

Khabgard says “We are Iran” which is about Persian blogs, is not a reliable source. Book only talks about less than 2 percent of blogs. Khabgard writes Nasrin Alavi's, book's writer, claim that 70 percent of Iranian are young and they want a secular democracy, is based on speculation not...

Iran: literature & Blog

  17 November 2005

Abbas Maroufi, Germany based writer & blogger, has decided to publish one of his books on his blog. Book's name is ” Fereydoun had three sons” and people can download it free of charge.

Iran: Jordan Explosions

  17 November 2005

Abtahi, former Vice Preident writes about recent Jordan explosions: “Blowing oneself up in the lobby of a hotel or in the middle of a restaurant with no preservations because of the presence of just ordinary people is not considered a military operation and is not either a sign of power...

Iran: Tehran's Metro

  16 November 2005

Zehne Abi, an Iran based blogger, says it is unbelievable thatRafsanjani's son position as General Manager (call it boss) of Tehran's metro has been confirmed. Zehne Abi writes everybody knows about corruption, mismanagment and even collapsing of one part of metro's roof under his rule!!