UNSC Resolution #1696: Suspension Required

After Ahmadinejad became president, the policy of dialog adopted during Khatami's presidency was soon replaced by a hardliner stance of confrontation. Iran resumed uranium enrichment and the IAEA referred the case to the UN Security Council. The UNSC resolution #1696 passed on June 31, 2006 endorsed the offer of diplomatic and economic incentives and demanded that Iran suspend all uranium enrichment activities by August 31. The council thus threatened Iran with sanctions in case of non-compliance, but avoids any implication that use of force may be warranted. Iran briefly rejected the resolution switching to use the case for domestic propaganda in order to suppress mounting economic and social discontent. (Updated: May, 11, 2008)

Anousheh Ansari Becomes First Iranian In Space

45 years after Russian Gagarin became the first person to reach space, Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American businesswoman reached space at the age of 40 and became the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian in space. Ansari lifted off on the Soyuz TMA-9 mission on Monday September 18, 2006 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Her significant success inspired many people in Iran and specially in the Muslim world.
In 1993, she set up a telecommunications company which was sold for hundreds of millions of dollars and part of the fortune went into funding her interest in the space industry. Anousheh was also wearing the Iranian flags on her space suit acknowledging her roots. She left Iran at the age of 16.
She is currently working towards enabling social entrepreneurs to bring about radical change globally, with organizations such as X Prize, ASHOKA and the PARSA Community Foundation. (Updated: Nov, 25, 2007)

Royana, Cloned Sheep Is Born

Royana is the name of the second sheep born in the Royan research institute through cloning technique. The first sheep died few hours after birth. Cloning is a very complicated high tech method that enables us to reproduce exact copies of the original mammal with exactly the same genetic structure. Founded in 1991, the Royan institute has been active in several related fields including reproductive biomedicine, stem cell biology & technology. The word Royan means embryo in Persian. The institute currently has the departments of stem cells, embryology, gynecology, genetics, andrology, epidemiology and a fertility clinic.
World's first mammal to be cloned with DNA taken from an adult cell was a sheep named Dolly born on July, 5, 1996 in Scotland. Dolly died on February, 14, 2003 at the age of six. Cloning is considered a promising tool for preserving endangered species alongside many other applications yet to think of. Royana, a brown male is now thriving outside Isfahan with some 400 other sheep. (Updated: Feb, 14, 2008)

White House Dismissed CIA Draft

According to a report by the New Yorker magazine, the White House dismissed a classified CIA draft assessment that found no conclusive evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program. Iran's arch foe, the United States constantly accused Iran of trying to acquire WMD, while Iran systematically denied the accusations, signed the NPT and opened it's nuclear facilities to inspections. (Updated: Nov, 20, 2007)

UNSC Resolution #1737:Trade Sanctions On Iran

In February 2003, after revealing its uranium enrichment program, Iran claimed it was using the technology for peaceful purposes and invited the IAEA to visit. Driven by the corporate media campaign and AIPAC lobby, US alleged that the program is part of a drive to develop nuclear weapons and sought to refer the Iranian case to the Security Council. In November 2004, Tehran signed a temporary agreement with Germany, France and Britain to cease uranium enrichment and the IAEA issued Iran a clean bill of health, thus avoiding Security Council intervention. Nevertheless, the IAEA did not confirm that Iran is not pursuing undeclared nuclear activities and referred the case to the UN Security Council.
U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology, an effort to pressure Tehran to halt uranium enrichment work despite the fact that Iranians insisted on the peaceful nature of their nuclear program backed by IAEA reports that found no proof of deviation towards production of nuclear weapons.
The resolution #1737 approved on December 23, 2006 imposed sanctions against Iran, calling for steps required by the IAEA, bans trade with Iran of all items, materials, equipment, goods and technology which could be used in Tehran’s uranium enrichment program and contained a list of persons and entities, whose assets are subject to be frozen. A new sanctions committee is to monitor compliance of the resolution. (Updated: Jan, 22, 2009)

Saddam Hussein Sacrificed

Saddam was born on April, 28, 1337 in village near Tikrit. The Iraqi dictator who was on the loose after the fall of Baghdad was caught in a hiding hole dug underground on Dec, 13, 2003. His high profile trial for war crimes lasted for three years and he was executed by hanging on Dec, 31, 2006 on the Islamic Ghorban feast when sheep and cows are sacrificed. In Sep, 1980 Saddam invaded Iran calling it the Ghadesiya in remembrance of the first Caliphate victory over Sassanid empire. During eight years of devastating war about a million people were killed on both sides. Saddam's army launched chemical weapons on civilians both in Iran and in Iraq, a brutal action that was passed by the U.S. in silence. During the Iran-Iraq war Arab and western countries supported Saddam's regime in every way while Iran was struggling under embargo. However, when tables turned Saddam had no friends with nowhere to go, proven to be another puppet dictator whose expiration date had arrived leaving behind many unanswered questions. (Updated: Jan, 5, 2008)

• United States : ايالات متحده
• White House : کاخ سپيد
• Ahmadinejad : احمدي نژاد(Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) دکتر محمود احمدي نژاد
• Kazakhstan : قزاقستان
• Caliphate : خلافت(khalifate)
• Ghadesiya : قادصيه(Qadesiyeh)
• Community : اجتماع
• Sassanid : ساساني(Sasanian)
• American : آمريكائي‌ ينگه‌ دنيائي‌
• Iranian : ايراني‌ اهل‌ ايران‌ ، وابسته‌به‌ ايران‌
• Islamic : اسلامي
• Baghdad : بغداد
• Germany : آلمان
• Persian : فارسي(Farsi,Parsi) ايراني پارسي
• Britain : بريتانيا انگليس
• Isfahan : اصفهان(Esfahan, Sepahan,Esparan) اسپه دانه، اسپهان
• Russian : روسي
• Ghorban : قربان(Qurban)
• Khatami : خاتمي
• Saddam : صدام(Saddam ?ussein Tikriti) صدّام حسين تکريتي
• Muslim : مسلمان(Moslem) مسلم‌
• Royana : رويانا
• Tehran : تهران(Teheran, Tahran) طهران
• August : آگوست
• Tikrit : تکريت
• France : فرانسه
• First : اول
• World : دنيا
• Royan : رويان
• AIPAC : ايپک
• White : سفيد
• Arab : عرب
• Iraq : عراق(Al Aragh)
• IAEA : آژانس انرژي اتمي
• Iran : ايران
• NPT : ان پي تي قرارداد منع گسترش سلاحهاي اتمي
• CIA : سيا(C.I.A.)
• New : جديد
• US : ايالات متحده

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