Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 23 As millions of school children headed back to school at the beginning of the new academic year, government officials in Iran announced new measures aimed at further segregation of boys and girls.
School transport authorities across the country have been instructed to allocate separate buses for boys and girls.
Gender segregation in school transport
Gender segregation in school transport
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 23 As millions of school children headed back to school at the beginning of the new academic year, government officials in Iran announced new measures aimed at further segregation of boys and girls.
School transport authorities across the country have been instructed to allocate separate buses for boys and girls.
Tehran-Baku Tensions Rise Again
Iran Focus: Baku, Sep. 23 Azerbaijans media reported Thursday that Iran violated Azeri airspace by sending surveillance aircraft for aerial reconnaissance. There was no immediate reaction from Tehran, but the top commander of Azerbaijan’s Air Force, General Rahil Rzayev, denied any incursion of his countrys airspace.
Tehran-Baku Tensions Rise Again
Iran Focus: Baku, Sep. 23 Azerbaijans media reported Thursday that Iran violated Azeri airspace by sending surveillance aircraft for aerial reconnaissance. There was no immediate reaction from Tehran, but the top commander of Azerbaijan’s Air Force, General Rahil Rzayev, denied any incursion of his countrys airspace.
30,000 Iranian Physicians Living Below Poverty Line
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 23 In a country where doctors have one of the highest social status, 30,000 physicians live below the poverty line, according to the head of Irans General Practitioners Association.
Contrary to what is perceived, there are at present 30,000 general practitioners around the country who are living under the poverty line, …
30,000 Iranian Physicians Living Below Poverty Line
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 23 In a country where doctors have one of the highest social status, 30,000 physicians live below the poverty line, according to the head of Irans General Practitioners Association.
Contrary to what is perceived, there are at present 30,000 general practitioners around the country who are living under the poverty line, …
It’s Iran More Than Iraq
Christian Science Monitor: Two years from now, during either a Kerry or Bush presidency, Iran will probably be much more of a security issue for the United States than Iraq.
Yet the campaigns of the two presidential candidates remain focused on Iraq, even though their approaches for stabilizing Iraq are far less different from their solutions for preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
The Iran Dilemma
Washington Post: A ten-year-old had awakened his parents in horror, telling them he had been having an “illegal dream.” He had been dreaming that he was at the seaside with some men and women who were kissing, and he did not know what to do. — Azar Nafisi, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Company pleads to illegally selling pumps to Iran
Washington Times: The U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese company will plead guilty to illegally shipping high-technology pumps with military applications to Iran through two French companies, The Washington Times has learned.
Ebara International Corp., based in Sparks, Nev., has agreed
to a plea bargain related to seven criminal violations from the sale of cryogenic transfer pumps to Iran, according to
Bush administration law-enforcement officials.
Iran’s Plans for Nuclear Fuel Widen Global Rift Over Technology
New York Times: Iran reiterated its right on Wednesday to produce uranium fuel for nuclear energy, seizing on a rift between nuclear-weapon nations that want to slow the spread of such technology and developing countries that see the technology as the entitlement of every signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.


