Hello everyone:
I called him about 2 hours ago and we had a good conversation. I was very happy to hear his voice. He was very greatful for his freedom and he told me he is just a little tierd. He is very happy to get some times to spend with his family and friends. He is going to do some traveling in Iran and he will be back home next month. he told me to thank all his friends for their prayer and he will do so again personaly when he gets back.
I read most of your comments here about him and I want to thank you all once again. My job is done here and he will talk to you when he gets back.
Have a wonderful day everyone and peace be upon you.

Thanks….Ramin

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Green Brief #95

By Codeman177 – http:/twitter.com/codeman177

Since Niteowl has started posting on his own blog, I have asked if I could begin publishing the Green Brief so that everyone on wwp would once again have a summary of the day’s news from Iran. I, like Niteowl, have gotten all of my information from reliable tweets and am not reporting any information that I could not confirm.

Sorry for my extended absence, my unit was activated for an extended period of time due to flooding.

March 26, 2010

Protests/General news

1. There was a protest today outside the Japanese embassy in Washington over the deportation of student activist, jamal Saberi.

2. Josh Shahryar has a report on the controversy surrounding Neda Agha Soltan’s purported fiancé. The report can be viewed here.

3. The international community is continuing to look at international sanctions to deal with Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration is looking at working with…

Hello everyone:
I had a call from Tehran about an hour ago and "iraniam" was released *****. I was not able to talk to him but I talked to his mom and she was the happiest person in the world. We both cried and talked a bit and I told her I will call again tomorrow so I can talk to him. I have been praying none stop and all his friends here in ***** are very happy for his released. I will let you guys know all the news after my conversation with him tomorrow….Peace.

Thanks..Ramin

—— edited by Michael the German, reason below ——

The reason: Ramin, just to be sure that now he’s been released they can’t find information in the post that could confirm something they weren’t sure of before. Ok? Just in case - Let’s be careful for his sake! Better a little too paranoid than endanger him by accident now. If you think completely different send me a direct message to tell me, but I believe better safe than sorry when it’s about his security. No dates and no places, do you…

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061005171810AAiRhJc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8582518.stm

Where did it start? How has it evolved?
I want to know a different story? in greece its tuesday the 13th. highly inlucky day because that day in May 1453, the turks won and took Konstantinoupoli (today Istanbul). it was the end of the Byzantium era and till today, that day is a black day

Simin Behbahani is 82 years old, nearly blind, and the most celebrated living poet in Iran. She is also, since early this month, a prisoner in her own country.

On March 8, on her way to an International Women’s Day event in Paris, she was stopped by authorities at the airport in Tehran. Interogated. Stripped of her passport. And summoned to court on unnamed charges.

Behbahani has written some of the most beautiful and powerful Iranian poetry of the last century. But she apparently looks like a threat to the regime in Iran.

This hour, On Point: the poet as prisoner in her own country.

Iranian Poet Simin Behbahani | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook

By MARGARET COKER

Oslo

In Iran’s controversial election last June, the job of certifying absentee ballots in Norway fell to Mohammed Reza Heydari. The senior diplomat had always considered himself a loyal official of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The vote showed the opposition candidate beating President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a result that Mr. Heydari duly certified. Shortly thereafter, Iranian intelligence agents threatened him with discipline.

They also asked him to be an informant on Iranian expatriates—including his 17-year-old son, he said, because he had marched in antigovernment protests. Mr. Heydari refused.

By January, the slight and balding veteran of the Iran-Iraq War had resigned as chief consular official at the Iranian Embassy in Oslo. He requested and received political asylum, citing threats against him and his family.

Mr. Heydari witnessed up close Iran’s effort to crush protests and skew the vote in last year’s historic election. His description…