Wikio - Qom

Iran bus crash kills 25 travellers (Scotsman.com)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:39:33 GMT

TWENTY-FIVE people were killed when a bus overturned near Tehran yesterday. The incident happened south of the Iranian capital on the highway to the city of Qom.

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Iran bus crash kills 25 travellers (News Scotsman)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:30:09 GMT

TWENTY-FIVE people were killed when a bus overturned near Tehran yesterday. The incident happened south of the Iranian capital on the highway to the city of Qom.

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A Glimpse Into Modern Day Iran (A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:34:57 GMT

And yes, this is most revealing: QOM, IRAN--On a snowy day early this year, a...

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THE NECESSITY OF MESSIANISM: (BrothersJudd Blog)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:13:29 GMT

In Iran’s Holy City, Dissent Over Mixing Islam and Politics : The regime faces criticism from an unexpected source (Anuj Chopra, June 27, 2008, US News) Such dissent fomenting in Qom, a center of Shiite scholarship, shows that the current Iranian government leadership faces rumblings of opposition not just from secular-minded intellectuals in affluent areas of northern Tehran but from elements in...

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Ahmadinejad: US Trying To Kill Me (The Huffington Post)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:26:14 GMT

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday accused the United States of plotting to kidnap and assassinate him during a visit to Iraq, state media reported. The president told a meeting of clerics in the central city of Qom that Iran's "enemies" planned to kill him when he went to Baghdad in March, according to the president's Web site. Iranian leaders usually use the term "enemies"...

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Tehran, Iran - Ahmadinejad Says US Planned to Assassinate Him in Iraq (Vos Iz Neais)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:46:37 GMT

Tehran, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the U.S. of plotting to kidnap and assassinate him during a visit to Iraq. The president told a meeting of clerics in the central city of Qom that Iran’s “enemies” planned to kill him when he went to Baghdad in March, according to the president’s Web site. The report [...]

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"Visiting Iran's Ayatollahs At Qom" (A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:19:36 GMT

A useful account for people interested in knowing what the theological state of play is...

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The clerics and I (BBC News)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:27:56 GMT

Iran's dissenting ayatollahs in the holy city of Qom

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Visiting Iran's ayatollahs at Qom (BBC News)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:27:56 GMT

The BBC's Sadeq Saba has visited the Iranian holy city of Qom, the spiritual home of Iran's conservative Islamic establishment and the source of some of the most outspoken dissent against the system.

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Iran - Afghan journalist freed after being held for 86 days in Qom - 30.05.2008 (Reporters sans frontières)

Fri, 30 May 2008 11:12:21 GMT

Reporters Without Borders welcomes yesterday’s release of Afghan journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, the editor of the monthly Haqoq-e-Zan (Women’s Rights), after being held for 86 days in an intelligence ministry prison in the holy city of Qom (150 km southwest of Tehran).“Nazab was held arbitrarily for three months,” the press freedom organisation said. “The conditions were difficult and he was in solitary...

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Pay No Attention (small dead animals)

Mon, 26 May 2008 05:11:56 GMT

From an exhibition in the Iranian city of Qom. h/t...

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Moqtada al-Sadr Under Arrest In Iran? (The Strata-Sphere)

Sat, 17 May 2008 19:51:14 GMT

Some rumors are running around Iraq that Moqtada al-Sadr is actually under house arrest in Qom Iran: Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr is present in the Iranian city of Qom, Asmaa al Mousawi, leading member of the Al Sadr political bloc in Iraq, told Asharq Al-Awsat, “We can neither confirm nor deny this information and we cannot [...]

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5 hanged in Iran's holy city of Qom (NoisyRoom.net)

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:20:10 GMT

From Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 12 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men including a teenager in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, state media reported on Monday. The men were hanged in a prison on Sunday, the state-run daily ‘Iran’ wrote. They were identified only as Hadi, 24; Hossein, 19; Javad, 24; Mehdi, 24; [...]

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Iran holds first international cycling tour (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:05:04 GMT

Qom, Iran - Iran on Saturday held its first international cycling tour with eight foreign and five Iranian teams. The Cycling Federation of Iran (CFI) said that the five-day tour features teams from Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, New Zealand, ...

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How To Spot a Persian Prostitute [Iran] (Gridskipper)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:10:26 GMT

"Given the Islamic dress code, how do Persian prostitutes signal their trade? Location, location, location . . . in contemporary Iran, the holy city of Qom is known (unofficially) as a place of "both pilgrimage and pleasure." There, prostitutes wearing veils and even chadors mill about temples or sit together in public courtyards where men can inspect them . Sometimes a male go-between offers "introductions,"...

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The latest example of crank magnetism - Ahmadinejad becomes a Troofer! (denialism blog)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:53:53 GMT

Yes, that's right, the Holocaust denier who brought us the international meeting of Holocaust deniers has slipped naturally into trooferism . Earlier Wednesday, Ahmadinejad called the 9/11 attacks a "suspect event" in a speech at a public rally in the holy city of Qom. "Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York," Ahmadinejad said, in an address carried live on state television....

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Notes from Iran, Pt. II (cyrusfarivar.com)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:58:35 GMT

Music: The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno (Soho Sessions) 1:03 pm Pacific Time March 22 2008 Khanoom and her husband — who passed years before — are buried sideways, so that they can face the Shrine of Massoumeh in Qom for all of eternity. This is the holiest of Iranian cities, the base of Iranian Shi’ite [...]

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President arrives in holy city of Qom (Irna)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:11:07 GMT

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in the holy city of Qom, central Qom province, Wednesday morning starting his seventh provincial tour. Upon his arrival in the city, the president and his entourage were welcomed by a number of senior provincial officials. During his two-day stay in the province, the chief executive is scheduled to address local residents at the city's stadium, meet provincial...

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ThreatsWatch.Org - RapidRecon: Ayatollah Rising? Iran, Iraq, Sadr and Qom (ThreatsWatch)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:53:13 GMT

So what exactly is Iran’s plan for Muqtada al-Sadr? He has been effectively supplanted from any military command by the Iranians, and has been spending his time ‘in study’ in Qom, Iran. Here’s an interesting consideration for a long-range project for Iran: Ayatollah Al-Sadr? Two notable alumni of Qom’s centers of Islamic learning are the Ayatollah Khomeini, who spent ten years there, and Hassan Nasrallah,...

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Spencer: Ayatollah Al-Sadr? (Jihad Watch)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:32:57 GMT

In Human Events today I discuss Muqtada Al-Sadr's recent adventures in Iran. Muqtada al-Sadr has gone to Iran to hit the books -- and the consequences could reach far beyond the quiet halls of the Shi'ite theological schools of Qom,...

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