• Esfandiari release temporary? Final status to be heard in court.
  • Still hold three American hostages including RFE/RL employee Parnaz Azima.
  • Supreme Leader: Iran’s foreign policy is defined in opposition to United States.
  • Hardline Press: Leader of the Revoltion: The Iranian nation will be victorious against America.
  • “His Excellency, Ayatollah Khameini stressed: ‘The Great Satan, America, has the design to be the dictator of the world and to trample upon the rights of our nation…”
  • More in English.
  • Iran claims success at IAEA talks.
  • Ahmadinejad announces desire to export nuclear technology.
  • Imprisoned labor leader Osanlou case website.
  • White House, State Department ignore despite wife’s pleas for international support.
  • Headline: “Hezbollah will continue its resistance.”
  • Muqtada al-Sadr congratulates Iraqi people on British defeat, pull-out from southern Iraq.
  • Ahmadinejad ends visit to Azerbaijan.
  • Turkey to build three power plants in Iran.
  • Ahmadinejad praises Iran’s investment atmosphere, willingness of Chinese, Malaysians, and Spaniards to invest.
  • Cultural crackdown: 24 hairdressing salons closed by police in Tehran over past 15 days.
  • More details on hostage-taking at Tehran University.
  • Picture of the Day: Rafsanjani gives speech, press conference with young people.
  • Supreme Leader’s advice of the day: “To Work Using a Forged Certificate”
  • Question: A person applied for a job at a government department. The applicants were required to have certificate of a diploma degree. Since this person did not have such a certificate, he forged one — out of compulsion — and gave it to the department. As a result, he was employed. Question: What is the ruling concerning his job? And what about the salary he takes for it?
  • Answer: In the given case, although the said person has done a harm by forging such a document; if, after employment, he does what is really required from a similar employee and if the diploma certificate has nothing to do with the nature of the work he does in this department, he is allowed to continue with this work and get paid for it.