<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552</id><updated>2011-11-15T08:20:12.470-08:00</updated><category term='Tehran Metro Art'/><category term='Iran US Fasihi Hedges'/><category term='Iran UK US War'/><category term='Iran US'/><category term='Housing Tehran Iran Market Prices Real-Estate'/><category term='Tehran Consumer Products Iran'/><category term='Iran President NYC'/><category term='Israel IAEA Iran UN Nuclear Weapons'/><category term='Euronews Iran'/><category term='Iran Radio Literature Culture Society Music Art'/><category term='Economist Iran Photography Photos Revolution History People Society'/><category term='Ahmadinejad Iran UN Speech Persian'/><category term='Iran President UN'/><category term='Iran Congress Israel'/><category term='Iran US President'/><category term='Nuclear Fuel Power'/><category term='civilian aviation military US Iran'/><category term='Myths Politics Skiing Iran'/><category term='School Tehran Iran'/><category term='Russia TV Interview Iran US Ahmadinejad'/><category term='War US Iran Washington-Post'/><category term='Sangak Bread Tehran Iran Bakery'/><category term='Shiraz Travel Iran'/><category term='Iran Space Technology'/><category term='Iran IAEA'/><category term='Video Conference Iran April 2007'/><category term='Iran China'/><category term='News Iran Google Sources Search'/><category term='Zoorkhaneh Sports Iran'/><category term='Afghanistan Occupation US'/><title type='text'>Iran Signs</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>37</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-1634865130012322548</id><published>2011-11-15T08:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T08:20:12.533-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran US Fasihi Hedges'/><title type='text'>Farnaz Fasihi vs. Chris Hedges</title><content type='html'>Chris Hedges, a professional war correspondent and international reporter of repute, gets kicked out of the New York Times for opposing the Iraq war.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, Farnaz Fassihi, a public and virulent opponent of the Islamic Republic of Iran, continues with her politically-motivated and poorly-"reported" news articles on Iran for the Wall Street Journa, all filled with inaccuracies and nonsensical claims. She was a far better war correspondent, perhaps. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there any wonder?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-1634865130012322548?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/1634865130012322548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=1634865130012322548' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1634865130012322548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1634865130012322548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2011/11/farnaz-fasihi-vs-chris-hedges_15.html' title='Farnaz Fasihi vs. Chris 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href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/10/iranian-president-warwick-hotel-nyc.html' title='Iranian President Warwick Hotel, NYC'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-2066757961765796478</id><published>2010-09-26T01:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T01:21:29.072-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='civilian aviation military US Iran'/><title type='text'>Shooting down Iranian civilian aircraft with some 300 people on board</title><content type='html'>Navid Nasr and Jihan Hafiz explain:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="500" height="405"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" 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href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/09/shooting-down-civilian-aircrafts.html' title='Shooting down Iranian civilian aircraft with some 300 people on board'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-3381014693896948876</id><published>2010-09-26T00:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T00:53:24.194-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Afghanistan Occupation US'/><title type='text'>Afghanistan</title><content type='html'>Russia TV interview with Matthew Hoh on US occupation of Afghanistan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ayLm1L3XExY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ayLm1L3XExY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-3381014693896948876?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/3381014693896948876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=3381014693896948876' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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Ahmadinejad</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iZckoJ259E4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iZckoJ259E4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-3720572731460721092?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/3720572731460721092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=3720572731460721092' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/3720572731460721092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/3720572731460721092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/09/russia-tv-interview-with-president.html' title='Russia TV Interview with President Ahmadinejad'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-6452701078480020173</id><published>2010-09-23T19:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-23T21:13:32.053-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahmadinejad Iran UN Speech Persian'/><title type='text'>Ahmadinejad speaks at the UN General Assembly, September 23, 2010</title><content type='html'>The speech is available in both the original Persian and in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Persian:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="270"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/swfs/player.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="file=ga/65/2010/ga100923pm1-orig.flv&amp;amp;image=http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2010/09/full/ga100923pm1-2.jpg&amp;amp;autostart=false&amp;amp;controlbar=over&amp;amp;start=3000&amp;amp;duration=5625&amp;amp;dock=true&amp;amp;stretching=uniform&amp;amp;streamer=rtmp://cp8784.edgefcs.net/ondemand"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/swfs/player.swf?file=ga/65/2010/ga100923pm1-orig.flv&amp;amp;image=http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2010/09/full/ga100923pm1-2.jpg&amp;amp;autostart=false&amp;amp;controlbar=over&amp;amp;start=3000&amp;amp;duration=5625&amp;amp;dock=true&amp;amp;stretching=uniform&amp;amp;streamer=rtmp://cp8784.edgefcs.net/ondemand" width="480" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Translation in English:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="270"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/swfs/player.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="000000" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="file=ga/65/2010/ga100923pm-iran.flv&amp;image=http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2010/09/full/ga100923pm1-2.jpg&amp;autostart=false&amp;controlbar=over&amp;start=18&amp;duration=2037&amp;dock=true&amp;stretching=uniform&amp;streamer=rtmp://cp8784.edgefcs.net/ondemand" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/swfs/player.swf?file=ga/65/2010/ga100923pm-iran.flv&amp;image=http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2010/09/full/ga100923pm1-2.jpg&amp;autostart=false&amp;controlbar=over&amp;start=18&amp;duration=2037&amp;dock=true&amp;stretching=uniform&amp;streamer=rtmp://cp8784.edgefcs.net/ondemand" width="480" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"/&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-6452701078480020173?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/6452701078480020173/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=6452701078480020173' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6452701078480020173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6452701078480020173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/09/ahmadinejad-speaks-at-un-general.html' title='Ahmadinejad speaks at the UN General Assembly, September 23, 2010'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-400426719774039570</id><published>2010-09-08T06:26:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-08T06:27:03.026-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran China'/><title type='text'>Iran News on Xinhua News Service</title><content type='html'>Xinhua News Service carries &lt;a href="http://www.gz2010.cn/en"&gt;news on Iran&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-400426719774039570?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/400426719774039570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=400426719774039570' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/400426719774039570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/400426719774039570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/09/iran-news-on-xinhua-news-service.html' title='Iran News on Xinhua News Service'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-6897761051151356637</id><published>2010-08-04T15:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-04T15:03:03.854-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran Radio Literature Culture Society Music Art'/><title type='text'>Radio Payam</title><content type='html'>An excellent mix of music, literary, social and cultural commentary in Persian: &lt;a href="http://www.radiopayam.ir/"&gt;Payam Radio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Streaming &lt;a href="http://www2.irib.ir/live/payamradio.asx"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-6897761051151356637?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/6897761051151356637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=6897761051151356637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6897761051151356637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6897761051151356637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/08/radio-payam.html' title='Radio Payam'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-6032436701133074767</id><published>2010-07-09T23:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-08T06:28:35.240-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News Iran Google Sources Search'/><title type='text'>Google Searches on Iran News</title><content type='html'>Google searches on Iran news produce fewer and fewer relevant news reports and bring backs  little alternative news from Iranian, Russian and Chinese English-language publications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a collector of news, it is important to assemble "all sides" of the stories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a matter of content collection and routing when it comes to news. Accomplishing it is not that hard but is becoming rare and sluggish in Google search.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google should list Iran-related news items from &lt;a href="http://www.presstv.ir/"&gt;Press TV&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.irib.ir/English/"&gt;IRIB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://english.farsnews.com/farsnews.php"&gt;Fars News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.tehrantimes.com/"&gt;Tehran Times&lt;/a&gt;, along with the traditional US sources such as the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this way, various perspectives on topics can be viewed in parallel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-6032436701133074767?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/6032436701133074767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=6032436701133074767' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6032436701133074767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6032436701133074767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/07/google-searches-on-iran-news.html' title='Google Searches on Iran News'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-3520817930125632256</id><published>2010-04-30T00:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T00:40:51.041-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gholestan Palace</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/268922849/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/268922849_6b24ef5b82_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/268922849/"&gt;Gholestan Palace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mortazavi/"&gt;M.Mortazavi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-3520817930125632256?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/3520817930125632256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=3520817930125632256' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/3520817930125632256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/3520817930125632256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2010/04/gholestan-palace.html' title='Gholestan Palace'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/268922849_6b24ef5b82_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-1265476468761772888</id><published>2009-12-08T21:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T21:55:30.479-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuclear Fuel Power'/><title type='text'>Fuel for Power</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bao2YwbXCfI&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bao2YwbXCfI&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-1265476468761772888?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/1265476468761772888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=1265476468761772888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1265476468761772888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1265476468761772888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2009/12/fuel-for-power.html' title='Fuel for Power'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-9201192097817527654</id><published>2009-09-19T08:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-19T08:12:07.108-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel IAEA Iran UN Nuclear Weapons'/><title type='text'>UN / IAEA Vote Urgest Israel to Allow Inspections of Its Atomic Sites</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58H3QW20090918"&gt;http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58H3QW20090918&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Calling the resolution "unbalanced," Canada tried to block a vote on the floor with a "no-action motion." But the procedural maneuver lost by an eight-vote margin. The same motion prevailed in 2007 and 2008s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A senior diplomat from the non-aligned movement (NAM) of developing nations said times had changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"People and countries are bolder now, willing to call a spade a spade. You cannot hide or ignore the truth, the double standards, of Israel's nuclear capability forever," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-9201192097817527654?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/9201192097817527654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=9201192097817527654' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/9201192097817527654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/9201192097817527654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2009/09/un-iaea-vote-urgest-israel-to-allow.html' title='UN / IAEA Vote Urgest Israel to Allow Inspections of Its Atomic Sites'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-7393710445357338943</id><published>2009-09-18T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-19T07:02:38.523-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran US President'/><title type='text'>MSNBC Interview w/ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</title><content type='html'>MSNBC Interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/32909953#32909953" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;"&gt;Visit msnbc.com for &lt;a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com"&gt;Breaking News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;"&gt;World News&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;"&gt;News about the Economy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-7393710445357338943?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/7393710445357338943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=7393710445357338943' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7393710445357338943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7393710445357338943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2009/09/interview-w-ahmadinejad.html' title='MSNBC Interview w/ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-7784641468785659653</id><published>2009-03-26T22:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-26T22:30:06.260-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Russian Beer on the Road to Tehran</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;I originally wrote this entry on August 30, 2004, and published it on blogs.sun.com.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="10"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/MortazaviBlog/Baltika_Beer.JPG" width="400"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've noticed people posting stories of beer drinking or photos of beer cans on their weblogs. Often one has a feeling that without a beer can in the background (or a wine glass in the foreground), questions may be raised about one's manhood. Well, here's mine, accompanied with the story behind it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier, I'd written about &lt;a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/MortazaviBlog/20040717#a_visit_to_half_the"&gt;a trip to Isfahan&lt;/a&gt;, this past July. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the road back to Tehran, the children were quite thirsty and I was, too. I stopped in Saveh, the city of pomegranates, and we started looking for a store. It was Friday, when most shops are closed, but luckily a couple of grocery stores were still open. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After some meandering through the maze of separated lanes, we were able to get into a lane that led to some stops. My wife, a true-blooded American (whatever that means), got off the car and went into one of the stores and used her very good Persian (of which I should be much prouder than I am) to purchase some drinks and snaks for us. The kids got a couple of different types of juices. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My reward was a frosty Russian beer, of the non-alcoholic sort, but in a tall can. It must have been past 40 degrees (Centigrade) outside and the old BMW I was driving had a broken air-conditioning. Just holding that beer can made me feel better. I opened it and took a sip. It was one of the best non-alcoholic beers I'd ever drunk. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How often do you read any praise of non-alcoholic beer in English? How often do you read any praise of it, in any language at all? In any case, I had to post a photo of the empty can, and kudos to the producers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd heard about Russian (non-alcoholic) beer exports to Iran in a BBC television report. (No trace of the report can be found on the BBC web site.) Now, with a bit of web searching, I also found the &lt;a href="http://eng.baltika.ru/news/9"&gt;news item&lt;/a&gt; on Baltika's web site. In any case, it was a great beer, and if I had a chance, I'd buy it again, in America, too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-7784641468785659653?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/7784641468785659653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=7784641468785659653' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7784641468785659653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7784641468785659653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2009/03/russian-beer-on-road-to-tehran.html' title='Russian Beer on the Road to Tehran'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-2269599093970341528</id><published>2009-03-26T22:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-26T22:17:14.328-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why we cooperate and adopt group purposes?</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;I originally wrote this entry on August 10, 2004, and published it on blogs.sun.com.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/MortazaviBlog/20040710#chester_barnard"&gt;Chester Barnard&lt;/a&gt; provides the following summary answer to this question:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among the most important limiting factors in the situation of each individual are his own biological limitations. The most effective method of overcoming these limitations has been that of cooperation. This requires the adoption of a group, or non-personal, purpose. The situation with reference to such a purpose is composed of innumerable factors, which must be discriminated as limiting and non-limiting factors. &lt;a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/MortazaviBlog/20040810#the_functions_of_the_executive"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Functions of the Executive&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-2269599093970341528?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/2269599093970341528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=2269599093970341528' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/2269599093970341528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/2269599093970341528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-we-cooperate-and-adopt-group.html' title='Why we cooperate and adopt group purposes?'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-7541795630830400112</id><published>2009-02-28T18:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-28T18:59:17.494-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economist Iran Photography Photos Revolution History People Society'/><title type='text'>Economist Photo Essay on the Iranian Revolution</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Economist&lt;/span&gt; has hosted &lt;a href="%3Ca%20href=%27javascript:void%280%29%27%20onclick=%27window.open%28%22http://video.economist.com/?skin=oneclip&amp;amp;ehv=http://audiovideo.economist.com/&amp;amp;fr_story=2075917e3c668dc973ec40076fcdad3795c581b1&amp;amp;rf=ev&amp;amp;autoplay=true%22,%20%22feedroom%22,%20%22width=402,%20height=336,%20scrollbars=0,%20resizable=1,%20status=no,%20toolbar=no,%20location=no%22%29;return%20false;%27%3EThe%20Iranian%20revolution%3C/a%3E"&gt;a photo essay&lt;/a&gt; on the Iranian Revolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src='http://video.economist.com/linking/index.jsp?skin=oneclip&amp;ehv=http://audiovideo.economist.com/&amp;fr_story=2075917e3c668dc973ec40076fcdad3795c581b1&amp;rf=ev&amp;hl=true' width=402 height=336 scrolling='no' frameborder=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-7541795630830400112?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/7541795630830400112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=7541795630830400112' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7541795630830400112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7541795630830400112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2009/02/economist-photo-essay-on-iranian.html' title='Economist Photo Essay on the Iranian Revolution'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-6717275490960323567</id><published>2008-07-06T18:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-06T18:09:59.544-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran Congress Israel'/><title type='text'>US House Resolution 326</title><content type='html'>In an interview with the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews"&gt;Real News Network&lt;/a&gt;, Historian Gareth Porter says that US House Res. 362 suggests the use of force. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I3G_S-LyA_Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I3G_S-LyA_Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, here is The Real News Network's interview with Seymour Hersh. The last minute or so is worth some good attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BRVWpX-Ifu8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BRVWpX-Ifu8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-6717275490960323567?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/6717275490960323567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=6717275490960323567' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6717275490960323567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/6717275490960323567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2008/07/us-house-resolution-326.html' title='US House Resolution 326'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-4540538049378353268</id><published>2008-05-03T01:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-03T01:43:51.313-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Red Beets of Tehran</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/2445267511/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2108/2445267511_56cf36ed9a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/2445267511/"&gt;Tehran, Iran (Nov. 2006)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mortazavi/"&gt;M.Mortazavi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;They are a delicacy on winter days. &lt;br /&gt;Some street vendors make a good concoction.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-4540538049378353268?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/4540538049378353268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=4540538049378353268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/4540538049378353268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/4540538049378353268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2008/05/red-beets-of-tehran.html' title='Red Beets of Tehran'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2108/2445267511_56cf36ed9a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-1242087485608209906</id><published>2008-02-04T23:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T09:15:18.779-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran Space Technology'/><title type='text'>Iran Launces Space Center</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/world/middleeast/05iran.html?ref=middleeast"&gt;Iran Launches Rocket to Commemorate New Space Center&lt;/a&gt;," Nazila Fathi of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/span&gt; reports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a video summary from &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.iribnews.ir/"&gt;IRIB News&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object name="Player" height="200"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-mplayer2" autoplay="false" src="http://www.iribnews.ir/PhotoGallery/Photo/_e0f864d9.wmv" name="MediaPlayer" height="200"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-1242087485608209906?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/1242087485608209906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=1242087485608209906' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1242087485608209906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1242087485608209906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2008/02/iran-launces-space-center.html' title='Iran Launces Space Center'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-4270518672788719128</id><published>2008-01-27T23:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-27T23:23:30.476-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Euronews Iran'/><title type='text'>Jalili talks to Euronews</title><content type='html'>Saeed Jalili talks to Euronews:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="373" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dld_HZhn6A0&amp;amp;rel=1&amp;amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dld_HZhn6A0&amp;amp;rel=1&amp;amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="373" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-4270518672788719128?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/4270518672788719128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=4270518672788719128' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/4270518672788719128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/4270518672788719128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2008/01/saeed-jalili-talks-to-euronews.html' title='Jalili talks to Euronews'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-2584413727814780932</id><published>2008-01-25T00:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T00:25:30.824-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='School Tehran Iran'/><title type='text'>School, Old Town, Tehran (2005)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/2204258385/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2204258385_60820bff59_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/2204258385/"&gt;Old Town, Tehran (2005)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mortazavi/"&gt;M.Mortazavi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is a picture of a school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This school has seen many students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has served many generations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its grandchildren live all over the world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-2584413727814780932?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/2584413727814780932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=2584413727814780932' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/2584413727814780932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/2584413727814780932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2008/01/school-old-town-tehran-2005.html' title='School, Old Town, Tehran (2005)'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2204258385_60820bff59_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-8866135821633112429</id><published>2008-01-20T09:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T09:35:29.175-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Odd Streets, Buildings and Cars -- Tehran (2005)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/2205077376/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2205077376_753cfd82bf_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/2205077376/"&gt;Odd Streets, Buildings and Cars -- Tehran (2005)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mortazavi/"&gt;M.Mortazavi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;You can still find some well-preserved old cars in Tehran although most of them are used up and thrown away as new models keep flowing into the streets ... This Volkswagon was particularly well-cared for.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-8866135821633112429?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/8866135821633112429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=8866135821633112429' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/8866135821633112429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/8866135821633112429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2008/01/odd-streets-buildings-and-cars-tehran.html' title='Odd Streets, Buildings and Cars -- Tehran (2005)'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2205077376_753cfd82bf_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-5051225156357124672</id><published>2008-01-12T15:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T15:49:47.242-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sangak Bread Tehran Iran Bakery'/><title type='text'>Buying Bread in Tehran</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Here's a brief video of a &lt;em&gt;sangak&lt;/em&gt; bread bakery in Tehran. It shows the bakers and a customer engaged in a transaction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nB-mWUanRb0&amp;amp;rel=1" name="movie" /&gt;&lt;param value="transparent" name="wmode" /&gt;&lt;embed width="425" height="355" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nB-mWUanRb0&amp;amp;rel=1" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/99-JgHT-IKU&amp;amp;rel=1" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt;&lt;embed width="425" height="355" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/99-JgHT-IKU&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-5051225156357124672?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/5051225156357124672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=5051225156357124672' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/5051225156357124672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/5051225156357124672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2008/01/buying-bread-in-tehran.html' title='Buying Bread in Tehran'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-9206098575394275410</id><published>2007-10-28T09:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-28T09:44:22.208-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='War US Iran Washington-Post'/><title type='text'>Tehran Intersections</title><content type='html'>Washingont Post Op-Ed columnist, David Ignatius, writes ("&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102601867.html"&gt;Walking Into Iran's Trap&lt;/a&gt;," October 28, 2007; Page B07):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;This isn't a Tehran intersection, where drivers can go full tilt because they know someone will stop at the last minute. This confrontation could actually result in a crackup because of miscalculations and misunderstood signals.&lt;/blockquote&gt;This paragraph makes is sound like Iranians have a habit of brinkmanship or enjoy engaging in it on a routine basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, unlike 30 years ago, Tehran intersections now carry multi-way, timed traffic lights that give the number of seconds left on each light. Drivers do not go at full tilt to see who will stop at the last minute. If they did, they would be badly surprised because driving habits are fast changing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, unlike some 30 years ago, when Iraq attacked a defenseless Iran, who had disbanded its US-educated and armed military institutions, today Iranians do have a defense force that is well equipped to protect it against aggression.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-9206098575394275410?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/9206098575394275410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=9206098575394275410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/9206098575394275410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/9206098575394275410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/10/tehran-intersections.html' title='Tehran Intersections'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-5096657383713743962</id><published>2007-06-09T03:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-09T03:59:29.265-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Housing Tehran Iran Market Prices Real-Estate'/><title type='text'>Housing Prices from IRIBNews.IR</title><content type='html'>&lt;span id="BaseMasterPage1__ctl0__ctl4_Label2"&gt;&lt;p&gt;بازار مسکن 17/3/86&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;div align="justify"&gt;    &lt;span id="BaseMasterPage1__ctl0__ctl4_Label1" class="DescriptionText"&gt;مصطفی قمری وفا خبرنگار واحد مرکزی خبر.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;نیم نگاهی به ساخت واحدهای مسکونی در کشور حاکی از آن است که در 10 سال گذشته به طور متوسط سالا‌نه حدود600 تا 800 هزار واحد مسکونی در ایران ساخته شده است حال آنکه تقاضا برای واحدهای مسکونی دو برابر میزان ساخت واحدهای مسکونی در مدت یاد شده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;از همین روست که کارشناسان معتقدند برای ایجاد تعادل در عرضه و تقاضای مسکن باید ابتدا افزایش تولید مسکن در اولویت قرار گیرد و سپس با تامین مناسب منابع مالی خرید واحدهای مسکونی برای افرادی که قدرت خرید پایینی دارند آتش این بازار سرکش ژ را فرونشاند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;بر همین اساس درسند چشم انداز بیست ساله کشور و ماده 30 قانون برنامه چهارم توسعه , مقرر شده است نظام بانکی 80 درصد هزینه ساخت واحدهای مسکونی را تامین کند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;کارشناسان علت رکود کنونی بازار مسکن را سه عامل افزایش چشمگیر قیمت مسکن در روزهای پایانی سال گذشته , کاهش تقاضا برای دریافت پروانه های ساختمانی ) با توجه به افزایش عوارض شهرداری در سال جاری ) و تعلل سرمایه گذاران و فروشندگان مسکن در نفروختن واحدهای مسکونی ساخته شده خود حتی به قیمت از دست دادن سود آن می‌دانند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;تجربه سالهای گذشته نشان می دهد نوسانات قیمت مسکن همواره بر اقتصاد ملی اثر گذار بوده و فراز و فرود عرضه و تقاضای مسکن در دوره های زمانی مختلف همواره یکی از دل مشغولی برنامه ریزان و اقتصاد دانان کشورمان بوده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;تغییرات ادواری بخش مسکن که از آن به عنوان( رکود و رونق) یاد می شود,پدیده‌های تکرار شونده ای هستند که گاه در تولید مسکن و گاه در معاملا‌ت و زمانی نیز در هر دو متغیر همزمان مشاهده می شود.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;نیاز واقعی به مسکن: نیاز به مسکن به موضوع اول اقتصادی‌, اجتماعی کشور تبدیل شده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;به‌این ترتیب تقاضای بالقوه مسکن که ناشی از نیازهای واقعی در برآورد حداقلی از امکانات زندگی است و در قانون اساسی نیز بران تاکید شده است به عنوان یک مطالبه مردمی از دولت قوت می گیرد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;برنامه اصلی دولتها همواره در مواجهه با چنین پدیده‌ای در گام نخست تلا‌ش برای افزایش تولید و برابر کردن تعداد مسکن شهری و روستایی با تعداد خانوارهای کشور و در گامهای بعدی , توسعه و بهبود کیفیت مسکن بوده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;براساس آمارهای موجود طولا‌نی ترین دوره رونق تولید مسکن در مقایسه باسه دهه اخیر در سال های 1378 تا سال 82 به ثبت رسیده است اما بررسی هاگویای آن است که رکود معاملا‌ت مسکن از سال 1381 آغاز شد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این رکود به طور عمده براثر افزایش شدید قیمت ها در سال 1380 و درادامه آن در سال 1381 روی داد که بر اثر آن تقاضای خرید مسکن به علت‌کاهش توان مالی خانوارها کاهش یافت به گونه‌ای که در سال 1381 معاملا‌ت مسکن در تهران 24 درصد کمتر از سال 1380 بود.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ساخت سالا‌نه بیش از یک میلیون واحدمسکونی: استاد دانشگاه شهید بهشتی در این باره معتقد است : با محتاطانه ترین پیش‌بینی ها تا سال 1400 به طور متوسط سالا‌نه بیش از یک میلیون واحد مسکونی برای پاسخگویی به تقاضای جدید و جایگزینی خانه های فرسوده در کشور نیاز است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;منصور محمدیان گفت:ساخت سالا‌نه بیش از یک میلیون واحد مسکونی در مقایسه با ساخت سالا‌نه حداکثر 640 هزار واحد مسکونی در سال های گذشته اختلا‌ف قابل توجهی را نشان می دهد که برای تحقق آن باید تدابیر لا‌زم اتخاذ شود.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این کارشناس افزود: راهکاری که دولت بتواند به تولید انبوه دست یابد این‌است که شرکت های انبوه ساز را از نظر بنیه مالی تقویت کند تا این شرکت‌ها با امکانات کافی قادر باشند انبوه سازی مسکن را بطور منظم در مناطق مختلف با کنترل وزارت مسکن و شهرسازی انجام دهند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;محمدیان گفت: امروزه ما باید به گونه ای برنامه ریزی کنیم تا با امکانات صنعتی کشور بتوانیم در کوتاه ترین زمان ممکن مسکن مقاوم ,ارزان و با عمر طولا‌نی تولید کنیم که تحقق آن با تغییر روش تولید مسکن از روش سنتی کنونی به صنعتی امکان پذیر است .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وی همچنین سوء استفاده بنگاهداران از تقاضای زیاد بازار و عرضه کم راعامل موثر در وضع کنونی بهای مسکن و اجاره بها در شهر تهران دانست.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;شهروندان تهرانی و تنگناهای تهیه مسکن: استان تهران به خاطر داشتن جاذبه های متعدد در سال های گذشته با سیل مهاجرت مواجه شده است بگونه‌ای که خدمات رسانی شهری و امکانات زندگی را در این ابرشهر در تنگنا قرار داده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;یکی از مشکلا‌تی که شهروندان تهرانی هرساله با آن دست به گریبانند, مشکل تهیه مسکن و سنگینی اجاره بهای آن است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;تمرکز امکانات‌, سازمان ها و وزارت خانه های مختلف و افزایش روز افزون جمعیت در کلا‌ن شهر تهران سبب شده است که این شهر رتبه اول را در میان‌شهرهای کشور در رابطه با شهروندان بدون منزل مسکونی شخصی کسب کند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;براساس این گزارش , جمعیت حدود 12 میلیون نفری استان تهران در دو میلیون‌و 792 هزار و 387 واحد مسکونی ساکن هستند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;شهر تهران 60 درصد جمعیت‌استان تهران و استان تهران 19 درصد جمعیت کشور را در خود جای داده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;بنابر آمارهای موجود , استان تهران به ویژه شهر تهران از مهمترین نقاطی‌محسوب می شود که ضرورت دارد برای حل مشکل مسکن شهروندان و همچنین کنترل نرخ اجاره‌, برنامه های جدی‌تری را در آن اجرا کرد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;بالا‌بودن قیمت مسکن‌,افزایش بی رویه و غیرمنطقی اجاره مسکن و ناتوانی قشرهای جامعه در تامین این نیاز اساسی‌, موجب شده تا از ابتدای سال موضع‌گیری هایی از جانب محافل کارشناسی و مسئولا‌ن دولتی انجام شود که قابل تامل می باشد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;کارشناسان همواره بر این باورند که نظارت بر قیمت و نرخ اجاره بها تاحدودی غیرممکن است و تولید انبوه مسکن و مسکن استیجاری و افزایش عرضه مسکن , در نهایت راهکار مناسبی برای کنترل قیمتها در بخش مسکن است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;در مورد اجاره بهای واحدهای مسکونی تازه ساز و قدیمی نیز وضع به همین منوال است .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;با گذر از کنار دفاتر معاملا‌ت ملکی می توان در سیمای متقاضیان مسکن استیجاری براحتی نگرانی و اضطراب را مشاهده کرد , فشارهای روحی‌, مشغله فکری و در نهایت خانه به دوشی هر ساله , از پیامدهای اجاره‌نشینی خانواده ها در تهران است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;علی همتی یک اجاره نشین تهرانی که 15سال است همچنان اجاره نشینی را تجربه می کند در این زمینه گفت: با 5 سر عائله برای اجاره مسکن‌, بسیاری از بنگاه های معاملا‌ت املا‌ک را زیر پا گذاشته ام‌, به گفته بنگاه داران با این تعداد افراد خانواده فقط با ودیعه بیش از 4 میلیون تومانی می توان مسکنی در جنوب تهران اجاره کرد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;به گفته همتی برخی از مالکان تصور می کنند افراد فقط حق داشتن یک فرزند را دارند و از این رو خانه های خود را فقط به این خانواده ها اجاره می‌دهند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ابراهیم عباسی اجاره نشین دیگری که 3 فرزند دانش اموز دارد, گفت: من وهمسرم هر دو کارمند هستیم با این وجود نمی توانیم بسیاری از نیازهای فرزندانمان را تامین کنیم چه رسد به بهای گزاف اجاره خانه.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;فریدونی یک بنگاه دار در جنوب تهران در باره چگونگی تعیین میزان اجاره بها گفت: میزان اجاره بها براساس قیمت ملک تعیین می‌شود یعنی حدود یک چهارم قیمت ملک و اینکه نوساز یا قدیمی باشد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وی گفت: در ساختمان های با قدمت بیش از 10 سال ساخت , اجاره بها 20 تا 25 درصد کمتر از اجاره بهای خانه های نوساز است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این بنگاه دار نامتناسب بودن عرضه و تقاضا,افزایش قیمت مسکن و هزینه‌های ساخت و تورم را علت اصلی افزایش اجاره بها دانست و در عین حال گفت : برغم رکود بازارمسکن میزان اجاره بها کاهش نداشته است و علت این است که چون در چند سال گذشته نرخ تورم سیر صعودی داشت‌, صاحبان املا‌ک عادت به بالا‌بردن قیمت داشتند و هم اکنون کسی حاضر نیست که قیمت را پایین بیاورد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وی اضافه کرد: عرضه مسکن نسبت به تقاضای آن بسیار کم است و علت آن نیزرشد فزاینده جمعیت در تهران بزرگ است که اگر در بخش مسکن انبوه سازی شود مشکلا‌ت تا حد زیادی برطرف خواهد شد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;یک اجاره نشین هم که جزو دارندگان درآمد ثابت است گفت: اجاره بها را روزگار" تعیین می کند, یعنی وقتی نرخ تورم ثابت نیست نمی‌توان انتظار ثابت ماندن میزان اجاره بها را طی یک دوره طولا‌نی داشت! رکود بازار مسکن و روشن شدن چراغ قرمز! یک استاد دانشگاه علا‌مه طباطبایی با تاکید بر ضرورت تلا‌ش برای گذر از رکود بخش مسکن گفت: رکود بازار مسکن و نوسانات شدید هر ساله در اجاره‌بهای واحد مسکونی نمی تواند علا‌متی مثبت برای رشد تلقی شود.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;احمد مقدسی خرید و فروش وام ها به قیمت های متنوع را در ایجاد حالت رکود, تورمی بازار مسکن موثر خواند و تصریح کرد: خرید و فروش وام مسکن‌که به یک بازار داغ تبدیل شده است در حال حاضر بیشترین سود را فقط نصیب واسطه ها می کند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این کارشناس با اشاره به اینکه براساس نص صریح قانون اساسی داشتن مسکن متناسب با نیاز حق هر فرد و خانواده ایرانی است گفت: دولت موظف شده‌است با رعایت اولویت برای انها که نیازمندترند زمینه اجرای این اصل را فراهم کند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وی برنامه اصلی دولتها در مواجه با چنین پدیده‌ای را در گام نخست برابرکردن تعداد مسکن استاندارد شهری و روستایی با تعداد خانوارهای کشور دانست.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این کارشناس با تاکید بر اینکه دولت باید برای رفع مشکلا‌ت بازار مسکن از تمام توانایی های قانونی و راهکارهایی که می توانند به خروج کشور از این مشکل کمک کنند,استفاده کند اظهار داشت : با توجه به جمعیت جوان در کشور و رسیدن آنها به سن ازدواج , باید سالا‌نه یک میلیون و 200 هزار واحدمسکونی تولید شود تا بتوان نیازهای موجود را پاسخ داد و وضع موجود راسامان بخشید.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وی گفت: در چنین شرایطی نیاز روز افزون به مسکن در جامعه و تناسب نداشتن عرضه و تقاضا و پایین بودن قدرت خرید مردم در بازار مسکن سبب شده تا شاهد نوسانات و یا رکود در این بخش باشیم و همین امر مشکلا‌تی را برای دولت و متقاضیان بوجود اورده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این کارشناس یاداور شد: رشد چند مرحله‌ای قیمت مسکن در سال گذشته سبب بازماندن متقاضیان واقعی خرید خانه در برخی نقاط کشور مانند تهران شده‌است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وی یادآور شد : پس از طی یک دوره چهار تا پنج ساله رکود در بخش مسکن , تصمیم گیری های متعدد و ناهماهنگ در بخش اعتبارات و تسهیلا‌ت و افزایش بهای مصالح ساختمانی زمینه را برای رشد بیشتر قیمت مسکن فراهم کرد و اجرا نشدن سیاست کنترلی برای مهار ان نیز, موجب رهایی قیمت ها در این بخش شده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این کارشناس همچنین رشد بیش از 40 درصدی نقدینگی در جامعه و هدایت نشدن آن به‌سمت فعالیتهای مولد و جریان یافتن آن به سمت بازار مسکن را یکی از علتهای تشدید مشکلا‌ت در این بخش دانست و افزود : بسیاری ازصاحبان سرمایه های کلا‌ن با وارد شدن به این عرصه و بازی با قیمت ها, سبب افزایش بهای مسکن به ویژه در تهران شده اند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;مقدسی یکی از ابزارهای خانه دار شدن شهروندان را اعطای تسهیلا‌ت بانکی دانست و افزود: سطح این وام ها بایدبه حدی ارتقا یابد که دست کم بتواند 60 تا 70 درصد هزینه خرید خانه متقاضیان واقعی یک واحد آپارتمانی ساده را تامین کند.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;این کارشناس همچنین گفت: واگذاری زمین ارزان قیمت دولت به انبوه سازان‌مسکن و کنترل قیمت مصالح ساختمانی سبب کاهش قیمت تمام شده بهای مسکن خواهد شد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وی تاکید کرد: دولت و برنامه ریزان باید همچنین با توجه به شرایط وتحریک یا تحدید تقاضا و عرضه , نقطه ضعف بازار را هم شناسایی کنند تا نحوه دخالت دولت و ابزار مورد استفاده مشخص تر شود .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;هم‌اکنون‌, کشور دارای نرخ تورم دو رقمی است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;از دید اقتصاددانان تولیدگرا, بجای تحریک تقاضای مسکن که منجر به نرخ گذاری بیشتر مسکن و تحریک سطح عمومی قیمتها می شود ( زیرا هزینه مسکن در سبد هزینه خانوار حضورپررنگی دارد) باید توان تولیدی مسکن در کشور را افزایش داد و زمینه رقابت عرضه کنندگان را در تولید فراهم و انگیزه های سوداگرانه را در این بخش خنثی کرد .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;به این ترتیب توزیع و تخصیص منابع و امکانات به سمت تولید مسکن با کیفیت تر و ارزان تر پیش خواهد رفت.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;همچنین از بار بیکاران نیز با رونق تولید مسکن و ساختمان کاسته می شود و بار ورمی چندانی هم به اقتصاد واردنخواهد شد&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-5096657383713743962?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/5096657383713743962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=5096657383713743962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/5096657383713743962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/5096657383713743962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/06/housing-prices-from-iribnewsir.html' title='Housing Prices from IRIBNews.IR'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-2730301366480777102</id><published>2007-06-06T17:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T17:53:09.326-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tehran Metro Art'/><title type='text'>Tehran Metro</title><content type='html'>&lt;table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="5"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="width: 50%;"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040610013330/www.geocities.com/cyberpersia/metro/art/art2.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/resource/azadi4.jpg" align="bottom" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="width: 50%;"&gt;                                    &lt;table cellspacing="5" width="40%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;                     &lt;tr&gt;                       &lt;td&gt;              &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Route:&lt;/b&gt;                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;                   Line2                       &lt;/td&gt;                     &lt;/tr&gt;                     &lt;tr&gt;                       &lt;td&gt;                 &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Station:&lt;/b&gt;                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;                   Azadi                       &lt;/td&gt;                     &lt;/tr&gt;                     &lt;tr&gt;                       &lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Art                         Name:&lt;/b&gt;                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;                         Winter&lt;/td&gt;                     &lt;/tr&gt;                     &lt;tr&gt;                       &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Artist Name:&lt;/b&gt;                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;                         Ali Mehdi Heidari&lt;/td&gt;                     &lt;/tr&gt;                     &lt;tr&gt;                       &lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dimensions:&lt;/b&gt;                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;                        4.95*2.40 (meter)                         &lt;/td&gt;                     &lt;/tr&gt;                     &lt;tr&gt;                       &lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Art                         Kind:&lt;/b&gt;                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;                         Tiles&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;p&gt; To view Tehran Metro art pieces, turn &lt;a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/cyberpersia/metro/art/art.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-2730301366480777102?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/2730301366480777102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=2730301366480777102' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/2730301366480777102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/2730301366480777102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/06/tehran-metro.html' title='Tehran Metro'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-5460236761751791783</id><published>2007-05-16T22:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-16T22:05:10.178-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zoorkhaneh Sports Iran'/><title type='text'>Zoorkhaneh</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.kargah.com/amir_mahmoudi/1/index.php?other=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="294" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="199" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.kargah.com/amir_mahmoudi/1/24.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img width="293" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="199" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.kargah.com/amir_mahmoudi/1/21a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img width="300" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="199" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.kargah.com/amir_mahmoudi/1/29.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amir Hossein Mahmoudi has shared some very interesting &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.kargah.com/amir_mahmoudi/1/index.php?other=1"&gt;photographs from a &lt;em&gt;zoorkhaneh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;---a traditional Persian gymnasium that mixes culture, music and poetry with ancient sportsmanship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-5460236761751791783?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-7544990078284483154</id><published>2007-05-07T22:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T22:47:36.449-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran US'/><title type='text'>Brzezinski before The Senate Foreign Relations Committee</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvAGAkseh1w"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvAGAkseh1w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-7544990078284483154?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-8586771607376404327</id><published>2007-04-11T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T21:36:18.543-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran UK US War'/><title type='text'>Prof Abbas Edalat of CASMII Speaks</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eG1VVctgX1Y"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eG1VVctgX1Y" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-8586771607376404327?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-8544549674424809716</id><published>2007-04-08T02:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T02:17:33.100-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video Conference Iran April 2007'/><title type='text'>Tehran News Conference by Iran President (April 2007)</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vpr2vZsuwZk"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vpr2vZsuwZk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-8544549674424809716?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/8544549674424809716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=8544549674424809716' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/8544549674424809716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/8544549674424809716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/04/tehran-news-conference-by-iran.html' title='Tehran News Conference by Iran President (April 2007)'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-1042363782121470244</id><published>2007-04-08T01:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T01:13:46.865-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran President UN'/><title type='text'>UN News Conference by Iran President (September 2006)</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KpfD5d_s59s"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KpfD5d_s59s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-1042363782121470244?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/1042363782121470244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=1042363782121470244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1042363782121470244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1042363782121470244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/04/un-news-conference-by-iran-president.html' title='UN News Conference by Iran President (September 2006)'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-4764244678636209949</id><published>2007-03-27T00:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T00:16:52.437-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran IAEA'/><title type='text'>Iran To Reconsider Cooperation with IAEA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0703259375223119.htm"&gt;IRNA reports&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran-IAEA--Nuclear-Review /POL/&lt;br /&gt;Government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham announced here Sunday that the government had decided to reconsider cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Calling Saturday's UN Security Council Resolution (1747) against Iran ''illegal'', Elham noted, ''The Council of Ministers met Sunday evening under chairmanship of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to discuss a recent law passed by the Majlis (27.12.06) obliging the government to review its cooperation with IAEA. The cabinet meeting decided that Iran Atomic Energy Organization should halt part of its cooperation with IAEA until Iran's case returns to IAEA from the Security Council and the situation gets back to normal.''&lt;br /&gt;He added that IAEO had agreed in line with safeguards agreement with IAEA to increase cooperation with the agency ''but this cooperation will stop until Iran's case returns to IAEA from the Security Council and the situation gets back to normal.''&lt;br /&gt;The safeguards agreement, he added, obliged Iran to inform the IAEA of all details of any plans and decision-making for creation of any facilities and execution of programs related to its nuclear issue. This is while, according to NPT, the member states are duty bound to inform the IAEA of their nuclear programs just six months before commissioning. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-4764244678636209949?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/4764244678636209949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=4764244678636209949' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/4764244678636209949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/4764244678636209949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/03/iran-to-reconsider-cooperation-with.html' title='Iran To Reconsider Cooperation with IAEA'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-3711734898612919505</id><published>2007-03-15T21:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-15T21:06:14.230-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shiraz Travel Iran'/><title type='text'>Shiraz 2003  - Madrasey-y Khan (Khan Seminary)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortazavi/415283087/" title="Madrasey-y Khan"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/415283087_bbc4020e23_b.jpg" width="768" height="1024" alt="Shiraz 2003  - Madrasey-y Khan (Khan Seminary)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-3711734898612919505?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/3711734898612919505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=3711734898612919505' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/3711734898612919505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/3711734898612919505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/03/shiraz-2003-madrasey-y-khan-khan.html' title='Shiraz 2003  - Madrasey-y Khan (Khan Seminary)'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/415283087_bbc4020e23_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-777199130898175498</id><published>2007-02-11T22:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T22:47:42.398-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tehran Consumer Products Iran'/><title type='text'>Testing Through Tehran</title><content type='html'>In the past, with the absence of competition from heavy-hitting global corporations, market entrants have found Tehran to be &lt;a href="http://businesssigns.blogspot.com/2007/02/all-roads-go-through-tehran.html"&gt;convenient grounds&lt;/a&gt; for testing consumer products.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-777199130898175498?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/777199130898175498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=777199130898175498' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/777199130898175498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/777199130898175498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/02/consumer-products.html' title='Testing Through Tehran'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-7365286756619638976</id><published>2007-01-28T18:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T18:07:45.162-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Paintings Biennial</title><content type='html'>&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalga/312842590/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/312842590_cd7fef4b53.jpg?v=0" align="middle" border="0" height="211" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="283" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;While looking for a photo of &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/yalda_the_winter_solstice"&gt;&lt;em&gt;yalda&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; celebrations this year, I ran into this interesting photo from the scene of &lt;em&gt;The Fourth&lt;br /&gt;International Painting Biennial of The Islamic World&lt;/em&gt; in Tehran, Iran.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on it and you'll see a larger image at Flickr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; I believe the biennial started in the last week of November, and &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=415799"&gt;it looks like it ended&lt;/a&gt; on&lt;br /&gt;December, 21, 2006. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://artcritique.blogspot.com/2006/11/4th-painting-biennale-of-islamic-world.html"&gt;some other pictures&lt;/a&gt; I found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to see more photographs of this&lt;br /&gt;exhibition. (As another example, check out this &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalga/312846498/in/set-453527/" target="_blank"&gt;work&lt;/a&gt;.) There does not seem to be a website for the biennial or one that actually displays all the paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I believe my friend, and ex-Berkeley-ite, &lt;a href="http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/my_favorite_modern_painting"&gt;Bobak Etminani&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;also has several paintings on display in the biennial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-7365286756619638976?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/7365286756619638976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=7365286756619638976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7365286756619638976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/7365286756619638976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/01/paintings-biennial.html' title='Paintings Biennial'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-1783604033437820339</id><published>2007-01-28T18:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T18:02:12.139-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Myths Politics Skiing Iran'/><title type='text'>Myths, Politics and Skiing</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Payvand,&lt;/em&gt; a Silicon Valley Persian community web site, has published &lt;a href="http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jan/1309.html" target="_blank"&gt;a summary&lt;/a&gt; of &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Answering the Charges Against Iran: Dispelling the Demonising Myths&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; report by U.K.'s &lt;em&gt;Campaign Iran&lt;/em&gt;. You will need to scroll down through &lt;em&gt;Payvand&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jan/1309.html" target="_blank"&gt;introduction&lt;/a&gt; to see the list of charges and the summary debunks. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another article on a roughly similar topic has been &lt;a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=67&amp;amp;ItemID=11963" target="_blank"&gt;written by Edward Herman and David Peterson&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Z Magazine&lt;/em&gt;.  The latter article contains some misunderstandings regarding the social make-up of Iran although it does expose some of the other demonizing myths propagated by the mainstream media here. In their article, Herman and Peterson have included a scholarly exposé, complete with references, of the realities hiding behind the rhetoric against Iran including those of the Democratic party leaders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Less tersely, you can partake of a youthful skier's visit to Iran on YouTube. (It was the first video listed under &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Iran&amp;amp;search=Search"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt; on YouTube.) You need to be patient through the introduction but I think recreational skier Jasin Nazim has done a much better job of reporting than many other professional journalists who have visited the country. I certainly learned quite a lot from the video and it motivates me to ski the same mountains! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/waMBt6EnsT8" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt;&lt;embed width="425" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/waMBt6EnsT8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-1783604033437820339?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/1783604033437820339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=1783604033437820339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1783604033437820339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/1783604033437820339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2007/01/myths-politics-and-skiing.html' title='Myths, Politics and Skiing'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889552.post-115745722306704523</id><published>2006-09-05T04:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-05T04:53:43.076-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FT Interview with Khatami</title><content type='html'>For partial transcript of the Financial Times interview with Mohammad Khatami, see &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fca13716-3c69-11db-9c97-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=be75219e-940a-11da-82ea-0000779e2340.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33889552-115745722306704523?l=iransigns.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/feeds/115745722306704523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33889552&amp;postID=115745722306704523' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/115745722306704523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33889552/posts/default/115745722306704523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iransigns.blogspot.com/2006/09/ft-interview-with-khatami.html' title='FT Interview with Khatami'/><author><name>Masood Mortazavi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08360285774352781059</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/375252015_9f07ff733f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
