A Canadian trade unionist alerted me to this…
The ITF has received word from our affiliate that Mansour Osanloo was kidnapped on 10th July in Tehran by unknown persons at approximately 7pm local time.
Mansour Osanloo, President of the ITF-affiliated bus workers’ union, Sandikaye Kargarane Sherkate Vahed (Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company), [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Iranian youths have set fire to a Tehran petrol station in protest after the government introduced fuel rationing.
Iran, the second largest crude producer among the Opec members, announced it would introduce petrol rationing for motorists from Wednesday.
Despite its huge energy reserves, Iran lacks refining capacity and has to import about 40 per cent [...]

From the BBC…
A second editor of a student publication in Iran has been detained following days of unrest in one of Tehran’s most prestigious universities.
Scuffles broke out last week between reformist and right-wing students at Amirkabir University, after several works were accused of insulting Islam.
However, the editors say the offending articles were forged.
Right-wing students have [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Britain’s ministry of defence has come under fire for allowing 15 sailors and marines held by Iran for 13 days to sell their stories to the media.
The ministry said on Sunday that it had waived rules barring serving military personnel from selling their stories because of huge public interest in the case.
A ministry spokeswoman [...]

Click on the pic I took below to download the 5th Cairo Anti-War Conference’s final statement in Arabic… [I'll post the official English translation, as soon as I receive it from the organizers]

And here’s a report about the Conference from the Guardian’s Comment is Free:
The rich and powerful have their conferences and we who oppose [...]

A video I stumbled on…

(They wrongly mention though the date of Sadat’s killing as 1982, instead of 1981)

Thousands of Iranian teachers demonstrated on 3 March in front of the parliament, demanding decent wages and raising their living standards…

More photos could be found here…

The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, one of Amreeka’s top investigative journalists, has been in Cairo for a couple of days, where he lectured Egyptian and Arab journalists on the art of investigative journalism–part of a training program by the Heikal Foundation. Unfortunately, I attended only his last workshop today, and the public talk he gave [...]

Click on the cartoon below to read a report by Vivian Salama…

Click on the photo below to watch a slideshow by journalist and friend Iason Athanasiadis…

Human Rights Watch issued a statement denouncing the authorities suppression against bloggers in Iran…