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With riot police out in force on the streets of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the oath of office Wednesday and began a second term as Iran’s president.
Meanwhile more and more arrests and “confessions” are on the way as yesterday, Mir Hamid Hassanzadeh, who now is an advisor to the general manager of ISNA, was involved [...]

Today is the start of the Persian New Year. Happy Norouz to all of you who celebrate this day.
President Obama has addressed Iranian people and government in a Norouz message which you can watch here. I am impressed especially by his Happy New Year in Persian at the end of the video.

A new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have an opinion either way. According to their work which is based on telephone interviews with 1,018 adults, believing in evolution has [...]

David Bergman, has made a “big photo” from the big event last week. He has used a robot Gigapan and a canon G10 to have 220 photos and mix all of them in a huge Panorama that has 1474 mega pixels. Look at this great Panorama here in full screen. If you zoom in [...]

Finally we can call him president Obama. The first 100 days will not be easy for him as there are a lot of challenges on the way.
Amnesty international in a campaign called “100 days”, is asking Obama to meet the challenge and take concrete steps to counter terror with justice in his first [...]

Obama Won…. the best way to put how many people including non-Americans feel, is how RickB did, so I post the same video:

Today is the US election day, I keep my fingers crossed for Obama.
To all youth voters PLease Don’t blow this for us!

“It is not that John McCain doesn’t care what is going on in the lives of Americans, I think he doesn’t know. He defines middle class as someone making under $5 million a year…”
Obama said in his historic acceptance of the US presidential nomination.
Watch the whole video of Obama accepting the nomination here.