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...American financial system to press Dubai's financial services industry into observing U.S. curbs. Iranians in Dubai say they find it increasingly difficult to get credit, even for workaday business dealings. "We have to pay full amounts to the supplier in order to ship the goods to us," says Morteza Masoumzadeh, deputy executive director of the Iranian Business Council in Dubai, whose shipping company focuses on trade with Iran. "If we go to banks and ask for credit facilities they say 'Oh no, you are Iranian, we cannot'. " (See pictures of Iran's presidential elections and their turbulent aftermath...
Police and Basij erected roadblocks and conducted car searches in much of the capital over the weekend. Last week, Tehran Governor Morteza Tamadon announced that 500 individuals involved in the illicit trade of fireworks had been arrested. "Tradition showcases the beauties of a culture," said Tamadon, adding that "the fire ritual offers nothing but ugliness, fear and worry ... With decisive action, we will try to wipe the problem called Chaharshanbe Suri from the mind of society within the next two years." That is unlikely to happen...
...Khamenei to bring any abusers to justice, the government is now, evidently, pushing back. A parliamentary committee that heard the evidence of abuse collected by the opposition summarily dismissed the charges last week, but two men who jointly presented the claims on behalf of the opposition - top Karroubi aid Morteza Alviri and top Mousavi aid Ali Reza Behesti - were arrested in the raids on Tuesday. The editor of Karroubi's website, which has also showcased the abuse allegations, was also arrested. The day before, authorities raided an office run by a Mousavi aide that recently said it had documented...
...take place at mobile ballot boxes - units that are transported to remote locations in cars, buses or planes, into which about a third of the nation's votes will be cast. "They have not provided us with the possibility of traveling with the government team [carrying the boxes]," says Morteza Elviri, a member of Karroubi's election-supervision committee. "They have said, You can follow our cars with your own vehicle, but that's not a reasonable solution," he complains...
...broadcasts it to students’ computers through the school’s network, according to the University’s television website. Unlike the costly process of running cable wires through all the buildings, the cost to multicast each channel is only around $15,000, according to Morteza Rahimi, Northwestern’s vice president and chief technology officer for information technology, as reported by the Brown Daily Herald...