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Iran Frees Roxana Saberi

Several Iranian-American citizens, including journalists, have been arrested in Iran in recent years but Saberi was the first one to be tried and given a jail sentence.

(TEHRAN, Iran) - The U.S. journalist who has been behind bars in Iran for five months, 32-year old Roxana Saberi, is free today after an Iranian appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the United States.

MSNBC reports that Saberi, who is a dual Iranian-American citizen, met her parents outside Evin prison Monday evening following the court decision to release her.

American Movie Crew Visiting Iran Says Country is Different from What Media Portrays

Syd Ganis says Iran Far From What US Media says.

(TEHRAN, Iran) - President of the American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sid Ganis says Iran is very different from what the US mainstream portrays.

Ganis visited Iran along with American actresses Annette Bening and Alfre Woodard, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson, producer William Horberg and Phil Alden Robinson in early March.

Oregon`s Racist Legislature Rears its Ugly Head

Mixing war profiteering and politics in the Oregon Senate.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A Senate Bill brought forward by Senator Brian Boquist and another Republican Senator named Jason Atkinson, ensures that Oregonians show hate toward Iran while flailing false and totally unfounded allegations about the country.

It comes as no surprise. Boquist makes big bucks off the war effort. Just look him up on Google. He's a Salem, Oregon-based war contractor when he isn't coming up with ridiculous laws that we will live to regret.

Iran`s Ahmadinejad Calls West`s Claims of Democracy `Sheer Lies`

Addressing the UN conference, Ahmadinejad criticized the creation of a "totally racist government in occupied Palestine" in 1948, calling it "the most cruel and racist regime."

(SALEM, Ore.) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Western nations' claims of democracy are "sheer lies," citing the U.S. and Israel's boycott of the United Nations Anti-Racism Conference in Geneva.

"The recent anti-racism conference in Geneva ...proved that the West's claims of freedom of expression and democracy were sheer lies," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.

Iran Proposes Joint Nuclear Consortium

Iran plans to move ahead with light water reactors; officials there hope other Arab countries join them.

(TEHRAN / Press TV) - Iran has proposed that a joint consortium to construct and develop light water reactor plants be established by Persian Gulf states.

The Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Reza Aghazadeh, made the proposal Sunday at Tehran's first international exhibition on nuclear power plants, 'the environment and sustainable development'.

No Chance For Truth About Iran With Western Media

Lies, lies lies yeah... - The Thompson Twins

(SALEM, Ore.) - If Iran'a President was a chicken, the American press would already have him prepared and waiting in a KFC box under a heat lamp.

There is at this point, practically no way for western people to learn what is really going on in the world if they don't look beyond traditional media.

Egypt Gives MKO Camp a Green Light

Egypt has agreed to the establishment of a Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) base in the country as the terrorist group seeks a new home.

(TEHRAN, Iran) - The MKO, which identifies itself as a Marxist-Islamist guerilla army, has carried out acts of terror against Iranian nationals and officials.

Outlawed in Iran, the group was relocated to Iraq and allegedly assisted former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the massacre of thousands of Iraqi civilians in the 1990s.

Iranian Bioweapon Researcher Dies Suspiciously

A US-based Iranian doctor working to discover an antitoxin therapy for biological weapons has purportedly died a "suspicious death."

(TEHRAN) - One of the leading bioweapon researchers and a regular keynote speaker at international conferences, Dr. Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi died on Saturday in what his doctors described as a "suspicious death".

Media reports have linked Dr. Talebzadeh Ordoubadi's mysterious death to his notable accomplishments in discovering an antitoxin treatment for bioweapons.

Hillary Clinton`s Disdain for International Law -- Part II

What alarms most international observers is Clinton's penchant for military solutions.

(JOHANNASBURG) - The appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is nothing less than a betrayal of the anti-war constituency responsible for Barack Obama winning the Democratic Party nomination and his subsequent election as president of the United States. The quintessential Democratic hawk, Senator Clinton has proven to be one of the leading militarists on Capitol Hill and her appointment as the country’s chief foreign policy representative serves notice to the international community that the change they had hoped for will not be forthcoming.

Clinton has demonstrated a marked preference for military confrontation over negotiations.

In a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations last year, she called for a "tough-minded, muscular foreign and defense policy." Similarly, when her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination Senator Barack Obama expressed his willingness to meet with Hugo Chavez, Raoul Castro or other foreign leaders with whom the United States has differences, she denounced him for being "irresponsible and frankly naive."

French President Praises Obama`s Views on Afghanistan and Iran

The politically conservative president of France salutes Obama's plans.

(DOHA) - U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's plan to prioritize the war in Afghanistan and continue talks with Iran over its nuclear program is receiving praise from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Agence France-Presse reports.

"Barack Obama has already announced that he will make Afghanistan a priority and I am delighted because we have to put all of our energy and willpower into helping Afghanistan to stand up on its own feet," Sarkozy told the Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

"A key to the solution will also be opening a broad political dialogue that would allow all Afghans who want to, and renounce violence, to participate in the rebuilding of their country," the French president was quoted as saying in the interview published ahead of his Saturday meeting with Saudi King Abdullah in Jeddah.