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An Iranian Man in Tehran playing a well known Jewish songhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIBhS694jkY

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Brett Zongker.Associated Press. Los Angeles Times. 08/11/07(http://articles.latimes.com) WASHINGTON -- An ensemble of musicians usually separated by oceans and thousands of miles will perform together later this month for the first time, having until now composed music layer by layer, with sound files exchanged over the Internet.Their goal: Show how the arts can bridge diverse cultures -- even

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Nasser Karimi. Yahoo News/ Associated Press. 09/18/09. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran/printTEHRAN, Iran – Hard-liners attacked senior pro-reform leaders in the streets as tens of thousands marched in competing mass demonstrations by the opposition and government supporters. Opposition protesters, chanting "death to the dictator," hurled stones and bricks in clashes

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Yaroslav Trofimov. The Wall Street Journal. 6/23/2009 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124571901245939581.html#printMode)JERUSALEM—In his Friday sermon, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reserved special wrath for "Zionist radio" that he said tried to drive a wedge between the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic. Such attention from Iran's supreme leader was music to the ears of Menashe Amir, a

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/27464937@N00/115773180/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/3302891483/

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http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=iran%20israel%20norooz&w=all

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/407208157/

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http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran

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"The Iranian Revolution - 30 Years After" details about the event, including full webcast of the lectures organized by panels, as well as main findings of the CIS May-2009 survey and its media converge, are all available online via this link: http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/iranian_studies/events-30_years_after.eng.html Sincerely, The Center for Iranian Studies (CIS) Tel Aviv University Ramat

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Presentation by Iranian American Students on Iran:http://www.4shared.com/file/72691973/76cc80be/IRAN-Archaic_Signet_of_Civilization-2003.html

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Tel Aviv Annual Iran Conference:The Iranian Revolution: Thirty Years AfterTel Aviv University, May 24-25thThe conference is the largest Iran symposium ever to take place in Israel, as it will bring together 40 scholars on Iran from around the world. They will assess the state of the Islamic Republic from a broad range of perspectives, including Iran's domestic and regional politics; Iranian

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Edward Cody. Washington Post Foreign Service. 04/21/09( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042000145_pf.html)PARIS, April 20 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad argued before a U.N. anti-racism conference Monday that Israel is a "paragon of racism" founded on "the pretext of Jewish sufferings" during World War II. The comments, a hard-edged version of

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Roger Cohen.The NY Times. 02/23/09. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23cohen.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print)At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn. Over the entrance is a banner saying: “Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the Jewish community of Esfahan.” The Jews of Iran remove

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Tom Tugend. 03/16/09. JewishJournal.com(http://www.jewishjournal.com/community/article/roger_cohens_dialogue_with_the_iran_jewish_community_20090316/)Roger Cohen called Iran the most democratic state in the Middle East outside Israel. Photo courtesy of The New York TimesFor video footage of the dialogue, click here.There was no clean knockout when New York Times columnist Roger Cohen faced off

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Jewish Journal. Karmel Melamed. 03/25/09. (http://www.jewishjournal.com/50_Plus/article/oldest_jewish_immigrant_from_iran_arrives_in_la_20090325/)Heshmat Elyasian, nearly 103 years old, at Los Angeles International Airport, where she arrived with her son and his family. An Iranian Jewish client of HIAS, the international migration agency, Heshmat is the oldest refugee in HIAS records, which date

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Yoav Stern. Haaretz. 12/28/2006. (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/806545.html) Three Iranians interested in converting to Judaism recently left their native country, but have been unable to find any entity to assist them. The three Shi'ite Muslims left Iran and approached the Israeli embassy and Jewish communities in Azerbaijan, but were rejected. It is impossible to convert to Judaism in

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U.S. Civilian Diplomacy Delegation Departs for Iran; Woman Rabbi Makes Historic Visit for Peace. Ethan Vesely-Flad, Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). 04/30/08 (http://www.payvand.com/news/08/apr/1309.html)In the wake of comments on April 21st by U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, who responded to a question of a theoretical future attack by Iran on Israel by saying, "I want the

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Encyclopedia Iranica. Rachel Milstein. 11/26/2007.(http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v14f3/v14f3001_iv.html)ISRAELiv. PERSIAN ART COLLECTIONSPersian art in most of the Israeli collections represent the entire history of Iran, with a strong emphasis on the Islamic period, and including Judaic-Persian ethnography. The following article

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Elizabeth Bryant. Chronicle Foreign Service. 01/22/09(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/MNGF15CHB7.DTL&type=printable)As Israel rained bombs on Gaza and anti-Semitic attacks hop-scotched across Europe this month, Hakima Milati worked the phones, inviting Jewish and Muslim women to visit the main mosque and synagogue in the eastern central city of Lyon.It didn't take long

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Borzou Daragahi. Los Angeles Times. 11/28/2008(http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/28/MND3145AUG.DTL) In her eyes, they are all daughters and sisters. The waifish 18-year-old, already married and a mother, but with a hunger to learn. The pair of shy high school students, nervous at first, but soon browsing eagerly through the bookshelves. The matronly homemaker, unsure and

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Nazila Fathi,Isabel Kershner, New York Times. 11/26/2008.(http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/MNT114C8QT.DTL)(11-26) 04:00 PST Tehran -- Iran has broken a spy ring working for Israeli's intelligence service, Mossad, and will seek the death penalty for three suspects in custody, Iran's prosecutor general announced Tuesday.The prosecutor general, Saeed Mortazavi, said the

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Nazila Fathi, New York Times. 11/23/2008. San Francisco Chronicle(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/23/MNJB14A9SD.DTL&type=printable)Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Saturday.The agency reported that Ali Ashtari was executed by hanging Monday. It said he was arrested in 2006 and confessed during his trial in

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Trita Parsi. 10/15/ 2008. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Tony Karon Blog. (http://tonykaron.com/2008/10/15/israel-gets-real-on-iran/#comment-38698) Guest Post: Trita Parsi The distinction between the apocalyptic rhetoric Israeli leaders use publicly in relation to Iran, and the more pragmatic view they hold among themselves on how to deal with Tehran and its nuclear program, has long been clear to anyone

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