payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news News about Iran and Iranians delivered by payvand.com en-US Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:02 PDT Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:02 PDT http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1130.html Despite all the recent talk of soaring prices at the pump, political and economic pundits rarely mention the impact of war and political instability in the Middle East on the skyrocketing price of oil. There is strong evidence, however, that the heightened price of energy is a direct consequence of the destabilizing wars and geopolitical insecurity in the region. -Ismael Hossein-zadeh payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1130.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1137.html Information Technology, Mechanic and Optic University of St. Petersburg gained the first place by solving eight problems and Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), Izhevsk State University of Russia, National University of Lviv and State University of Moscow, by solving seven problems, stood in second to fifth places. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1137.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1131.html With 70 percent of its people under 30 years old, Iran is one of the youngest societies on earth. At the same time, Tehran is at the receiving end of a media campaign that has created an international impression of the country and its people that is far removed from reality. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1131.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1135.html Two Iranian women wushu athletes attained bronze medals in the seventh Asian Wushu Championships, which is underway in Macau. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1135.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1129.html Within the past several decades, we the Iranian-Americans have made great strides to see our duly earned stature recognized with respect to our cultural identify and substantive contributions in the multiethnic Promised Land: the U.S. of A. -Committee for Darius Shahinfar for Congress payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1129.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1132.html The Middle East Studies Program at California State University, Fresno calls for proposals for pre-organized panels and individual papers for the Program's inaugural meeting, October 16-18, 2008, in Fresno, California. payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1132.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1128.html Iranian American Director/Producer Kayvan Mashayekh noticed at The First Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi -Darius KADIVAR payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1128.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1136.html Reigning champion Iran obliterated a helpless Tajikistan futsal team 14-0 on Tuesday in the 10th AFC Futsal Championship 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. -MNA payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1136.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1134.html In recent weeks western media have been awashed with rumours that US or her Israeli partner will launch a genocidal attack against the Iranian nation, in the Persian Gulf and surrounding countries you can hardly spit and not hit one of the US or her coalition of willing army bases or navy carrier battle groups, not to mention the blood curdling promises of Mr. Ben-Eliezer, Israeli minister and Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. -Dr B. Bahrami, UK payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1134.html http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1133.html What do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel have in common? One thing is for certain: they are both true reflections of the neoconservative rise in US foreign policy, which itself was a result of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, which razed the Twin Towers in New York and parts of the Pentagon. -Jalal Alavi, UK payvand.com http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1133.html