Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence
Associated Press
Once complete, the asphalt will become a 21st century Silk Road, joining markets in Afghanistan to Central Asia, China and the Persian Gulf. Today, nearly 90 percent of the 2,227-kilometer (1,384-mile) highway is done. Much of the road, tho...
The Beginnings of Divination
New York Times
Reading the future and shunning possible mishaps is mankind’s oldest dream. In 16th-century Iran and Turkey, where Persian, the literary language of Iran, was also used at court, it inspired some of the most intriguing book paintings ever. ...
UN Atomic Inspectors Lose Confidence in Iran’s Truthfulness
Bloomberg
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations atomic agency has lost confidence that the Persian Gulf country is telling the whole truth about its nuclear program and isn’t hiding additional secret facilities. Iran’s Qom enrichment facility, re...
Pilatus In The Persian Gulf
Strategy Page
November 21, 2009: The UAE (United Arab Emirates) is buying 25 PC-21 turboprop trainer aircraft, for about $21 million each. The PC-21 has a pressurized cockpit with a bubble canopy, and a modern "glass" cockpit. The aircraft can pull 8 Gs ...
A Final Fantasy announcement and a Persian trailer
Stuff
Heard of Final Fantasy? It's a little role-playing game series from Japan that rakes in a few hundred million dollars here and there. RPG nerds refer to it as a "mainstream" game, and then they either sneer or pout. Us nerds don't generally...
Fortnight in Review
Wilmington Town Crier
During the first Persian Gulf War I was a teen in Bangor, Maine. I remember watching CNN the night of the first Baghdad bombings with Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman broadcasting from the 9th floor of a downtown hotel while tr...
Ex-Iranian vice-president who called election a 'swindle' is given six-year sentence
Times Online
A former Iranian vice-president and leading reformist has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for fomenting unrest after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in June.
US Air Force Official Expects UAE Role To Continue
CBS News
... America's relationship with the small oil-rich federation and said there was potential to deepen the Air Force's training activities in the country, which sits just across the Persian Gulf from Iran. "It is very gratifying to see how th...
The Oil in Kurdistan
Stockhouse
Still farther south, the oil of the richer Pahla-Dehluran field(only partly under Kurdish-inhabited areas) is piped to Ahvâz and theIranian ports on the Persian Gulf. By far the most productive Kurdishpetroleum fields are at Kirkuk in centr...
Navy: Casual atmosphere aboard submarine contributed to March collision in Persian Gulf
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
GROTON, Conn. - The crew aboard a U.S. submarine made dozens of errors before the vessel collided with an American warship in the Persian Gulf, an accident that exposed lax leaders who tolerated sleeping, slouching and a radio room rigged w...
Major's Corner: Tough times downsize three-martini lunch
Times Colonist
The Thousand-Year Reich, Titanic, Maginot Line, Eaton's, Colossus of Rhodes, Persian Gardens, Roman Empire, Mac-Blo, cat worship and the rest were all thought to be permanent and yet crumbled like Kitty's cookies. If there is an emergency, ...
Call to develop horticulture sector
Daily News
Sri Lanka has a promising, but virtually an untapped potential as an exporter of high value horticulture products to nearby markets in the Maldives and Persian Gulf. Due to its tropical location and two monsoons, many types of tropical frui...
Iran jails former VP for 6yrs over vote unrest: website
AFP via Yahoo! News
Iran has jailed former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi for six years on charges linked to protests over June's presidential election, a moderate conservative website reported.
1000-year-old structure identified in northeastern Iran
Tehran Times
... bearing a Kufic inscription has been installed inside of the 3x6-meter structure located in a village at a distance of 60 kilometers northeast of the historical city of Tus, the Persian service of CHN reported on Sunday. “The inscriptio...
Iran Frees Ex-Vice President on Bail After Vote-Unrest Sentence
Bloomberg
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- An Iranian court freed former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi on bail after sentencing him to six years in jail over his involvement in protests that followed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Jun...
