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	<title>Iran News Digest &#187; Science</title>
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	<description>For a Democratic &#38; Pluralistic Iran</description>
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		<title>Video:  Museum explores &#8216;hidden history&#8217; of Muslim science</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/video-museum-explores-hidden-history-of-muslim-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/video-museum-explores-hidden-history-of-muslim-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exhibition that has just opened at the Science Museum is celebrating 1,000 years of science from the Muslim world.
From about 700 to 1700, many of history&#8217;s finest scientists and technologists were to be found in the Muslim world. IND:  I am certainly not for the Islamic republic and wish to see a national, secular [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>851</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iran students boycott exams to protest disputed election</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/iran-students-boycott-exams-to-protest-disputed-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/iran-students-boycott-exams-to-protest-disputed-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in Iran have been boycotting end-of-term exams as they continue to show their opposition to the outcome of last year&#8217;s disputed presidential election.
The move comes a month after thousands of students held street demonstrations to protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s re-election last June.
Students have been at the forefront of the protests which initially saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Interview with Somayeh Rashidi</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/video-interview-with-somayeh-rashidi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Change for Equality:: Somayeh Rashidi is an activist involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign. This women’s rights defender was summoned to court for interrogation, after her home was searched and her property seized. She appeared in court on December 19, 2009 and after a few hours of interrogation the investigative judge ordered an arrest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia &#8216;regrets Iran&#8217;s rejection of nuclear deal&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/russia-regrets-irans-rejection-of-nuclear-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/russia-regrets-irans-rejection-of-nuclear-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russia regrets that Iran has apparently rejected a UN-brokered nuclear fuel exchange deal to ease the standoff over its atomic programme, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
&#8220;We regret that Iran &#8212; as far as we can see &#8212; does not consider it possible to agree to the formula that it was offered,&#8221; Lavrov told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark clouds are blowing from Iran towards the glittering Gulf</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/dark-clouds-are-blowing-from-iran-towards-the-glittering-gulf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/dark-clouds-are-blowing-from-iran-towards-the-glittering-gulf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stability of the [IND: Persian] Gulf is further threatened by the deepening international crisis over Iran&#8217;s insistence on continuing its illicit nuclear programme. Just how the West intends to respond to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s intransigence is being hotly debated among the world&#8217;s leading powers. At the very least, Iran can expect further sanctions, which will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineer&#8217;s arrest exposes US pursuit of Iranians</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/engineers-arrest-exposes-us-pursuit-of-iranians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/engineers-arrest-exposes-us-pursuit-of-iranians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Iranian engineer flew to Paris with his wife, intending to see the Eiffel Tower and other tourist sites. Instead, he was arrested at the airport under a U.S. warrant &#8211; suspected of evading export controls to buy U.S. technology for Iran&#8217;s military.
The case of Majid Kakavand, accused of purchasing American electronics online and routing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran &#8216;Facing Tomorrow&#8217; By Letting Opposition Participate In TV Debates</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/iran-facing-tomorrow-by-letting-opposition-participate-in-tv-debates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/iran-facing-tomorrow-by-letting-opposition-participate-in-tv-debates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an apparent attempt to address political tensions that stubbornly refuse to go away, Tehran is allowing opposition-minded figures to participate in live televised discussions on the country&#8217;s postelection crisis&#8230;it has created a buzz among Iranians accustomed to seeing broadcasts that generally favor the views of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
The talk show &#8220;Ru be Farda,&#8221; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaker of Parliament Larijani Criticizes Ahmadinejad and Green Movement</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/speaker-of-parliament-larijani-criticizes-ahmadinejad-and-green-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/speaker-of-parliament-larijani-criticizes-ahmadinejad-and-green-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larijani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani gave an address Wednesday night strongly criticizing the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on multiple issues, ranging from the economy to dealing with the aftermath of the June elections. Larijani also blamed the nation’s political turmoil on extremists on both sides of the political divide, saying their dispute discouraged foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Briefs 1/22</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/briefs-122/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/briefs-122/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes: In Depth: The Top 10 Oil Fields Of The Future
Washington Post: NYC consultant denied bail in Iran trade case A management consultant charged with violating the Iran Trade Embargo was denied bail Thursday despite his claims that he would not be welcome in Iran.U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan ordered Mahmoud Reza Banki held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song: Dedicated to Majid Tavakoli &amp; All Political Prisoners by Afshin</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/song-dedicated-to-majid-tavakoli-all-political-prisoners-by-afshin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/song-dedicated-to-majid-tavakoli-all-political-prisoners-by-afshin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Majid Tavakoli]]></category>
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		<title>Dr. Abbas Milani on Sanctions [Persian]</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/dr-abbas-milani-on-sanctions-persian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/dr-abbas-milani-on-sanctions-persian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbas Milani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Photo&#8217;s of Iran&#8217;s Political Prisoners</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/photos-of-irans-political-prisoners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/photos-of-irans-political-prisoners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Republic of Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/irans-republic-of-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/irans-republic-of-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khamenei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=16018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Victory by terrifying&#8221; is a trope that is present in many of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei&#8217;s speeches. Indeed, it is a reliable guide to his political philosophy&#8230;But cultivating fear in others also makes one more susceptible to fear, and nothing is more frightening to Khamenei and the leaders of the Islamic Republic than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran’s Evolving Threat</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/iran%e2%80%99s-evolving-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/iran%e2%80%99s-evolving-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IND:  A long piece by Mr. Cordesman.  This part was especially interesting.

Asymmetric and irregular warfare: There is no simple way to describe the lower threshold of Iran’s military development and ability to use it to pressure, threaten, or attack other powers. Any weapon and any type of force can be used in asymmetric, irregular, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom vs. security: How far can Obama push Iran?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/freedom-vs-security-how-far-can-obama-push-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/freedom-vs-security-how-far-can-obama-push-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama, in his Cairo speech discussing the rule of law, justice, transparent government, and “freedom to live as you choose,” promised: “Those are not just American ideas; they are human rights and we will support them everywhere.”
But what happens when these global pledges collide with narrow, but critical, national interests? How must a president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual film festival to kick off amid opposition calls for boycott</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/annual-film-festival-to-kick-off-amid-opposition-calls-for-boycott/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/annual-film-festival-to-kick-off-amid-opposition-calls-for-boycott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Packed with prominent film directors, actors, international artists and a crème de la crème of Iran&#8217;s cultural elite, Tehran&#8217;s Fajr International Film Festival is undoubtedly Iran&#8217;s biggest and most popular cinematic and cultural event of the year.
Each year, the festival attracts thousands of Iranian film and theater fans, especially young students. People flock to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton Urges Global Response to Internet Attacks</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/clinton-urges-global-response-to-internet-attacks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/clinton-urges-global-response-to-internet-attacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=16008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NY Times:  Coupling a salute to Internet freedom with a carefully worded caution to countries like China and Iran, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that countries that engaged in cyberattacks should face consequences and international condemnation.
Her remarks came at a time when Internet controls have drawn increasing public attention. Limits on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briefs 1/21 Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/briefs-121-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/briefs-121-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC: Iran &#8216;formally rejects nuclear fuel deal&#8217; Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency it does not accept the terms of a deal to ease concerns about its nuclear programme, diplomats say.  For months, the Iranian government has criticised the offer to ship low-enriched uranium abroad in return for fuel, but never responded formally.
NY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mir Hossein Mousavi FB 1/21</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/mir-hossein-mousavi-fb-121/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/mir-hossein-mousavi-fb-121/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

More posters here.
Alireza Beheshti, Mir Hossein Mousavi’s top advisor and son of Martyr Ayatollah Beheshti who was illegally arrested for the second time few weeks ago, has suffered from a heart attack in prison this morning. In the past few days Alireza Beheshti has had severe flu but this did not stop the authorities to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Kinzer calls Iran our best hope for an ally</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/stephen-kinzer-calls-iran-our-best-hope-for-an-ally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Kinzer argues that it shares strategic and democratic interests with the U.S.
America&#8217;s ideal ally in the Muslim world is not Jordan or (the new and improved) Iraq &#8211; and certainly not Saudi Arabia &#8211; but Iran.
So argues journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer, author of the acclaimed 2003 political study, All the Shah&#8217;s Men: An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hillary Clinton, Google can do about censorship in China</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/what-hillary-clinton-google-can-do-about-censorship-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;if the State Department and internet giants really want to promote free access to the Internet worldwide, the most effective thing they could do is to support the Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIF).  GIF is a small outlet run by a group of Chinese-American computer scientists. Over the last ten years, they have developed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up to 10 percent of Iraqis disabled by war, sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/up-to-10-percent-of-iraqis-disabled-by-war-sanctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IND:  We must not repeat such tragic stories in Iran by again thinking that there is a military solution.
Amputee Hamza Hameed is a living reminder of the U.S. &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; bombardment during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, one of up to three million Iraqis disabled after years of war, sanctions and economic deprivation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran to Place New Limits on Cash Withdrawals</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/iran-to-place-new-limits-on-cash-withdrawals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deputy Finance Minister Asghar Abolhasani said withdrawals of more than 150 million rials (roughly $15,000) per day would be banned &#8220;in order to combat money-laundering,&#8221; state radio reported. The decision means an account holder cannot withdraw more than that amount daily in cash, but can still write checks for larger amounts.
Finance Minister Shamsoddin Hosseini told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmadinejad Will Gain From Sanctions, Iranian Official Says</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/ahmadinejad-will-gain-from-sanctions-iranian-official-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government will only grow stronger should U.S.-led sanctions aimed at stopping Iran’s nuclear-development program be implemented, an official from the country said.
Sanctions have only worked against small nations facing near universal opposition from the rest of the world, Mohammad Nahavandian, president of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandmaster&#8217;s next move: A chess revival in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/21/grandmasters-next-move-a-chess-revival-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian chess grandmaster Morteza Mahjoob, who holds the world record for the most number of simultaneous matches, is bent on reviving old Persia&#8217;s passion for the ancient game.
Chess was outlawed for nearly a decade after the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah, sidelining Iran from the international chess map.
The 29-year-old Mahjoob, one of seven [...]]]></description>
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