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BibiJon’s Iran’s Image is a great site that has lots of information dismantling popular misconception about Iran, for example: Who would have guessed that: Women constitute well over half of university students in Iran? (BBC) Iranian Scientists A report by Science-Matrix covers the last 30 years of global scientific growth and shows Iran’s scientific achievments. Report highlights: “Notably, most of the growth is in two countries : growth rates (Growth Index, or GI in the figure) in Iran and Turkey increased 11 and 5.5 times faster, respectively, than output at the world [...] Tehran, Economic Power While doing business in Iran is globally ranked high, it is important to note that it has been doing significient positive changes to its procedures. One can only imagine the huge positive change Iran could do if foreign powers would improve their relationships with it. The Doing Business in Iran article will have [...] Caught my eye: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gm4Dp9kEHgJv4JIk56144AW-Pwmg TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran is installing vending machines in Tehran to sell cheap condoms and syringes to drug addicts to prevent the spread of AIDS and hepatitis, an official said on Wednesday. http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB118912609718220156.html I havent watched this, but its a great example of the how different Iran is from what the western media shows us as, “Every Monday night at 10 o’clock, Iranians by the millions tune into Channel One to watch the most expensive show ever aired on the Islamic republic’s state-owned television. Its elaborate 1940s costumes [...] I like this news piece! It sounds sort of nice, http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=31383&in_page_id=2 When members of a small town in Massachusetts held a recent meeting where they urged their government not to attack Iran, they probably thought it was little more than a symbolic gesture. What they probably didn’t expect was that the Iranians would write to them, thanking them [...] Ahmadinejad against fingerprinting of American nationals in Iran Something else to be proud of, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected Monday a parliamentary proposal to fingerprint all Americans entering Iran. “Iranians are, like criminals, fingerprinted while entering the United States and the parliament had planned to prepare a bill to do the same with Americans coming to Iran,” [...] http://www.iata.org/ps/services/cargois/middle_east.htm I’ve taken Israel out of the equation, because its a unique case. Bahrain – “Bahrain is a constitutional monarchy headed by the King.” Egypt – Sort of democratic. “President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak has been the President of the Republic since October 14, 1981, following the assassination of former-President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat.” & “Although power is ostensibly organised [...] |
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