payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news News about Iran and Iranians delivered by payvand.com en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1166.html Iran says a conservative body has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election -- moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1166.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1162.html Everyone in Mozaffar Street loved Mrs. Professor's Green Volkswagen bug; a symbol which would appear in the vicinity of Ali Asghar Hospital, making evident the presence of a woman who had dedicated her life to cancer-suffering children; who abandoned her residence in Europe to live beside cancer-suffering children in Iran and to help them. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1162.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1163.html The Guardian Council has qualified 8 candidates for presidential elections, Mashaei and Hashemi disqualified. Informed sources communicated the list of qualified candidates to Mehr News. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1163.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1165.html In a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, Ayatollah Mohammad Sadegh Haeri Shirazi, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, says the Supreme Leader's motto of "Political legend and maximum participation in the elections" will not be realized if the "top figures from each side" are not allowed to compete. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1165.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1161.html An Iranian opposition website reports that Tehran "has put on a military face" as the Guardian Council is set to announce today the presidential candidates that have been approved to run in the election. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1161.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1159.html Recent comments by members Iran's Guardians Council, the hard-line oversight body that vets all election candidates, have raised doubt that former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will be allowed to run in the June 14 presidential elections. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1159.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1160.html Iran imported $34.2 million worth of medicine in the first Iranian calendar month of Farvardin (March 21-April 20), down 54.7 percent year on year. In November 2012, the health ministry of Iran called the Central Bank to earmark $2 billion for importing medicine to cope with the domestic shortage as a result of international sanctions. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1160.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1164.html The first initiation to Downtown LA actually happened on the second day of my arrival in this land of America. The reason was to join a parade held by the initiation of LA Poverty Department (LAPD) celebrating the 27th anniversary of AA foundation in Los Angeles -Roya Monajem payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1164.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1158.html An Iranian diplomat says his government has approved a memorandum of understanding with Argentina on forming a "truth commission" to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. The attack killed 85 people. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1158.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1156.html The U.S. law on religious freedom calls for naming other countries it considers to be committing "particularly severe violations of religious freedom." Under the law, the State Department two years ago named eight nations as "countries of particular concern" - Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1156.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1157.html A wave of car bombings and suicide attacks against Shi'ite Muslims ripped through Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding scores more, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew from the country in December 2011. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1157.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:20 GMT