Iran rejects French warning it risks Israeli strike Sep 6, 2008
"Today, the enemy does not dare to attack Iran, as it knows that it will receive fatal blows from Iran if it ventures into such a stupid act," Nour Ali Shoushtari said in the city of Qazvin, Iran's Press TV station reported. Western powers accuse Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil exporter, of seeking the atom bomb under the cover of a civilian nuclear program. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
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Israel, conversely, has more than 10 Iranian cities on its hit list including Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, Qazvin, Shiraz, Yazd, Kerman, Qom, Ahvaz, and Kermanshah. Cordseman also noted that Iran would have lower fission yields, and less accurate force into cluster targeting on Israels two largest urban complexes, and that the Iranian side would also most likely be thwarted by Israels missile defense systems. (Human Events Online)
Iran woman escapes stoning Mar 19, 2008
Mokarrameh Ebrahimi was released from prison in Qazvin province on the orders of Iran's judiciary's amnesty commission, said her lawyer Shadi Sadr. Ms Ebrahimi's partner, Jafar Kiani, was stoned to death in July 2007, causing an international outcry. (BBC News -- Africa)
Sisters face stoning for adultery... Feb 5, 2008
However in July 2007, Jafar Kiani was stoned to death for adultery in a village in the northwestern province of Qazvin in a rare execution by stoning that provoked a wave of international outrage. Capital offences in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, serious drug trafficking and adultery. (The Drudge Report)
Amnesty International Calls Iran's Practice of Stoning a Cruel and Unacceptable Practice Jan 15, 2008
Ja'far Kiani was stoned to death on July 5, 2007 in the village of Aghche-kand, near Takestan in Qazvin province ... She is in Choubin prison, Qazvin province, apparently with one of her two children. (PR Newswire)
Afghanistan/Iran: Kabul Pleads With Tehran To Delay Refugee Expulsions Jan 9, 2008
Until now, her family of eight has lived in the town of Boen-Zahra in Qazvin Province, west of Tehran. Rezai and her five siblings were all born there. (EurasiaNet.org)
Sneak peek at a desert Armageddon Jan 3, 2008
Even under a limited counterforce scenario where not more than 10 Iranian cities are attacked (Tabriz, Qazvin, Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, Kerman. Qom, Ahwaz, Kermanshah), though Israel has the ability to attack all major Iranian cities, the casualties range from 16 to 28 million. (Asia Times Online)
Unlikely forum for Iran's youth Jan 2, 2008
"Usually, they discuss political issues," said Maysam Shahsavari, a student from Qazvin, a city northwest of Tehran, about the students in the 321-member Iranian University Students group she created on the site. In November, a photo of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looking with apparent puzzlement at a water spigot was posted on the site after he visited a rural part of the country. (Los Angeles Times)
Stay of execution fails to save Iranian man Dec 7, 2007
In July a man was stoned to death for adultery in Qazvin province despite a prior order to re-exam the sentence. The number of executions has risen in 2007, under a drive to combat "thugs" and improve "social security". (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Iranian women tackle rugby in Islamic republic... Oct 26, 2007
"This is not a violent sport for women at all, despite what people think. We need to discharge our energy," said Zahra Nouri, the team's captain, who is a student of mechanics at Qazvin University west of Tehran. The mother of one of the players, the 16-year-old Azadeh, was happy to see the level of physical activity, saying this would make it easier for her to deal with her energetic daughter at home. (The Drudge Report)
IRAN'S ROUGH JUSTICE: 80 LASHES FOR MAN WHO DRANK AND HAD SEX... Aug 23, 2007
Traffic was brought to a halt in Qazvin, 90 miles west of the capital Tehran, as more than 1,000 men gathered behind barricades to watch the public flogging. Scroll down for more. (The Drudge Report)
CORRESPONDENT TRACKER Aug 1, 2007
Hanging is not the only form of capital punishment routinely enforced in Iran: in the first week of July, a man convicted of adultery was stoned to death in Qazvin province, while senior Iranian officials defended this medieval act. One senior Iranian cleric, Ahmad Jannati, the leader of the regime s Council of Guardians, defended the increased executions in religious terms: If it was Imam Ali (the first Shi ite leader after Prophet Mohammad), he would have executed more people because he was... (Fox News)
Iran says man stoned to death for adultery... Jul 11, 2007
"This case has been recently executed in the village that was mentioned," judiary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told reporters about the stoning of Jafar Kiani in a village in Qazvin province ... In June, the Fars news agency reported that the judiciary had halted the stoning of a man and a woman in Qazvin province, believed to be the same man who has now been executed. (The Drudge Report)
Iran 'adulterer' stoned to death Jul 11, 2007
Jafar Kiani was executed last week in a village in north-west Qazvin province ... They were sent to Choubin prison, Qazvin, where Ms Ebrahimi is thought to remain with her two children. (BBC News -- Africa)
Iranian blossoms in New York art scene Jun 25, 2007
When she was 7, he was elected to parliament and the family moved from the city of Qazvin to the capital city of Tehran. He registered her at a Zoroastrian school for girls. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Iran stoning halted following protests, Oslo official says Jun 22, 2007
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere summoned the Iranian ambassador to Oslo on Wednesday after an Iranian human rights activist said the man and woman were set to be stoned to death yesterday in Qazvin Province ... However, the head of the justice department in Qazvin Province, Hassan Qassemi, denied that a stoning had been planned. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Major Earthquakes to Hit Southern, Central Asia Apr 4, 2007
3 on the Richter scale razes dozens of villages in the northern Qazvin province, killing 229. Nov. 21, 2002 - PAKISTAN - A 5. (Planet Ark, United States)
* Women start to make inroads in Iranian politics Jan 8, 2007
AFP, QAZVIN, IRAN Monday, Jan 08, 2007, Page 9 ... Former high school teacher Fatemeh Ashdari, 42, was one of dozens of women who made a strong showing in last month's municipal elections by winning a seat on the city council in Qazvin northwest of Tehran ... Ashdari is one of four women who will sit in the new nine-member council in Qazvin after the Dec. 15 elections, where women represented just one-sixth of the 180 candidates in the city. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
