NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
From Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 12 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men including a teenager in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, state media reported on Monday. The men were hanged in a prison on Sunday, the state-run daily ‘Iran’ wrote. They were identified only as Hadi, 24; Hossein, 19; Javad, 24; Mehdi, 24; [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Qom, Iran - Iran on Saturday held its first international cycling tour with eight foreign and five Iranian teams. The Cycling Federation of Iran (CFI) said that the five-day tour features teams from Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, New Zealand, ...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
"Given the Islamic dress code, how do Persian prostitutes signal their trade? Location, location, location . . . in contemporary Iran, the holy city of Qom is known (unofficially) as a place of "both pilgrimage and pleasure." There, prostitutes wearing veils and even chadors mill about temples or sit together in public courtyards where men can inspect them . Sometimes a male go-between offers "introductions,"...
denialism blog (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Yes, that's right, the Holocaust denier who brought us the international meeting of Holocaust deniers has slipped naturally into trooferism . Earlier Wednesday, Ahmadinejad called the 9/11 attacks a "suspect event" in a speech at a public rally in the holy city of Qom. "Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York," Ahmadinejad said, in an address carried live on state television....
cyrusfarivar.com (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Music: The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno (Soho Sessions) 1:03 pm Pacific Time March 22 2008 Khanoom and her husband — who passed years before — are buried sideways, so that they can face the Shrine of Massoumeh in Qom for all of eternity. This is the holiest of Iranian cities, the base of Iranian Shi’ite [...]
Irna (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in the holy city of Qom, central Qom province, Wednesday morning starting his seventh provincial tour. Upon his arrival in the city, the president and his entourage were welcomed by a number of senior provincial officials. During his two-day stay in the province, the chief executive is scheduled to address local residents at the city's stadium, meet provincial...
ThreatsWatch (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
So what exactly is Iran’s plan for Muqtada al-Sadr? He has been effectively supplanted from any military command by the Iranians, and has been spending his time ‘in study’ in Qom, Iran. Here’s an interesting consideration for a long-range project for Iran: Ayatollah Al-Sadr? Two notable alumni of Qom’s centers of Islamic learning are the Ayatollah Khomeini, who spent ten years there, and Hassan Nasrallah,...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
In Human Events today I discuss Muqtada Al-Sadr's recent adventures in Iran. Muqtada al-Sadr has gone to Iran to hit the books -- and the consequences could reach far beyond the quiet halls of the Shi'ite theological schools of Qom,...
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
The Iraqi sources in Qom and Al-Najaf asserted that the Iranian authorities informed Al-Sadr of the need to leave their territories because of the security problems he had caused in Iraq following the armed clashes between the pro-Al-Sadr "Al-Mahdi Army" militia and Iraqi forces in Basra, Baghdad,...
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Martin and Lewis, rum and Coke, steak and eggs… nothing goes together better than mosques and munitions: An explosion in a southern Iranian mosque that killed 10 people and wounded 160 after evening prayers Saturday night was caused by negligent handling of live munitions, not a bomb as first suspected, Iranian media reported. … “Some live munitions may [...]
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
BASRA AND IRAN....Trudy Rubin on one of the lessons of Basra:Most galling to U.S. officials was this: When the going got tough, top Iraqi Shiite officials rushed to the holy city of Qom in Iran to get help mediating a...
The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Notice the caveat: if the highest Shi'ite religious authority demand it. All eyes on Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who's main source of money is the religious establishment of Qom, Iran. Since Iran's main trump card in Iraq is the Mahdi Army,...
PRI's The World: Technology (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
OK, here we go. First, to the Irish Sea to hear about a new tidal turbine technology. Then, we'll examine the recent hacking of some Darfur-related websites. Could the Chinese be involved? Then, to the Iranian city of Qom to hear about the digitization of Muslim scholarship there. We'll follow that with a report on a new old-school campaign to raise awareness of an imprisoned Egyptian blogger. And...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Ayatollah Fadhl Al-Maliki, a senior Iraqi cleric currently residing in the Iranian city of Qom, criticized Iranian clerics – in particular clerics living in Iraq – for interfering in Iraqi politics. He also criticized the oppression of the ... April 3, 2008, 2:41 pm
ThreatsWatch (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
1. Iran’s Quds Force deeply involved in Mahdi Army truce in Iraq. Iraqi lawmakers made trip to Qom, Iran to meet with Quds Force commander, said truce was result of trip. 2. Opposed to US support for Ukraine NATO bid, Russia to offer NATO bases as transit point for Afghanistan mission supply route. 3. Pentagon analyst admits to selling secrets to China and will be sentenced in June. 4. The United...
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raimondo | 01/13/2008
Iran: AIDS rate doubles in the holy city of Qom Tehran, 11 Jan. (AKI) - In the past year, the incidence of AIDS has doubled in the holy Shia city of Qom, second only to the Iraqi city of Najaf in religious significance. "The great share of the newly infected have contracted the HIV virus, not through using infected syringes, but through unprotected sexual relations," said Amir, Akbari, director of
