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http://en.radiozamaneh.com Radio Zamaneh in English Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:57:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/featured/campaigning-starts-for-candidates-seeking-remaining-seats-in-parliament/ http://en.radiozamaneh.com/featured/campaigning-starts-for-candidates-seeking-remaining-seats-in-parliament/#respond Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:57:57 +0000 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/?p=27612 Candidates have begun their campaigns for the second round of voting, which will fill 69 seats that are still empty in the Iranian Parliament.

Reports indicate that 138 candidates began their campaigns on April 21 and will have until next Thursday to vie for the seats. The elections will take place on Friday April 29.

Reformists and conservatives have issued their respective lists of endorsements in hopes of expanding their influence in the next Parliament.

In the first round of voting, 221 candidates won seats. Controversy arose over the disqualification of Minoo Khaleghi, the Isfahan candidate who had won the third-highest number of votes in her riding, which should have guaranteed her a seat in Parliament. For the first time, the ultra conservative Guardian Council disqualified a candidate after the election. The reason for the disqualification has reportedly been cited as her “shaking hands with a male stranger”. Khaleghi has reportedly appealed the decision.

The Guardian Council’s role in elections has been often challenged by reformists and independent activists, who maintain the council is an obstacle to a diverse spectrum of political views from across the country being represented in Parliament.

Twenty-one provinces are involved in the second round of elections.

]]> http://en.radiozamaneh.com/featured/campaigning-starts-for-candidates-seeking-remaining-seats-in-parliament/feed/ 0 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/environmental-awareness-measures-come-to-universities-schools/ http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/environmental-awareness-measures-come-to-universities-schools/#respond Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:14:25 +0000 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/?p=27607 The Department of the Environment has aounced that two Environmental Studies credits have been approved as requirements for the completion of all university degrees.

According to the department, the courses will include topics such as plant species, understanding forests, wetlands, consumption of natural resources, the role of humans against nature and the role of the environmental protection organizations.

Universities have also reportedly been working with nursery and elementary schools to train early childhood educators and teachers to introduce environmental knowledge and awareness in the early stages of children’s education.

The department also aounced that textbooks are being prepared for environmental awareness courses for high school and university.

]]> http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/environmental-awareness-measures-come-to-universities-schools/feed/ 0 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/cartoon/subtle-presence-of-morality-police/ http://en.radiozamaneh.com/cartoon/subtle-presence-of-morality-police/#respond Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:10:46 +0000 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/?p=27604 Reza Jozani

]]> http://en.radiozamaneh.com/cartoon/subtle-presence-of-morality-police/feed/ 0 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/featured/false-messages-sent-from-accounts-of-rohani-advisor/ http://en.radiozamaneh.com/featured/false-messages-sent-from-accounts-of-rohani-advisor/#respond Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:16:45 +0000 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/?p=27601 The Gmail and Facebook accounts of Shahindokht Molaverdi, President Rohani’s advisor on Women and Family Affairs, were into for three hours and used to send out phishing email.

Molaverdi reportedly sent out a message on her Twitter account waing her followers that her Gmail and Facebook accounts had been into and that no one should open messages attributed to her from these accounts until further notice.

So far, no one has claimed responsibility for this action.

People on her mailing list reportedly received massages from her asking them to open an attached file which she believes would be beneficial.

She aounced three hours later that she has recovered control of her accounts.

Molaverdi is probably the member of Rohani administration who is most often attacked by conservatives in the establishment. Her modest stabs at gaining some points in the tough fight for gender equality in Iran have eaed her serious sco from ultra-conservative figures, and most recently she has been the subject of judicial proceedings for her attempts to gain support for the families of prisoners executed for drug offences.

]]> http://en.radiozamaneh.com/featured/false-messages-sent-from-accounts-of-rohani-advisor/feed/ 0 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/online-broadcaster-said-to-have-been-arrested-in-iran/ http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/online-broadcaster-said-to-have-been-arrested-in-iran/#respond Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:14:02 +0000 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/?p=27598 Sabri Hassanpour, the executive and host of the online network “Simay-e Rahayi” (Vision of Liberation), has reportedly been arrested in Iran.

Hassanpour, who currently resides in the Netherlands, had reportedly travelled to Iran to visit relatives.

Jahan News reports that during his stay, he travelled to Tehran, Isfahan, Ahwaz and Karaj.

Hassanpour reportedly had anti-Islamic Republic programs on his online network.

He is also reportedly a member of the National Iranian Congress to Save Iran, which purportedly aims to establish a shadow govement and parliament in exile for Iranians and in its manifesto claims to be against any form of foreign and military intervention in Iran.

]]> http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/online-broadcaster-said-to-have-been-arrested-in-iran/feed/ 0 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/surge-in-rainfall-bolsters-efforts-to-restore-lake-urmia/ http://en.radiozamaneh.com/news/surge-in-rainfall-bolsters-efforts-to-restore-lake-urmia/#respond Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:11:52 +0000 http://en.radiozamaneh.com/?p=27595 Recent heavy rains have been a blessing for Iran’s Lake Urmia, which has been rapidly drying in recent years.

Reports from Azerbaijan provincial officials indicate that the water levels have risen to their highest levels in recent years.

The report indicates that the water levels are 31 cm higher than at the same time last year.

Khalil Sai, the head of emergency response for Azerbaijan province, reports an increase of close to 2 billion cubic metres in the volume of the lake’s waters in the past seven months.

Sai waed, however, that replenishment efforts should continue because the situation could easily be reversed as summer heat approaches.

Lake Urmia has been drying out very rapidly in recent years, and the govement has taken emergency steps to save the lake, which include opening dams built on the waters that feed the lake and chaeling river water to the lake.

The recent rains have relieved some of the challenges posed by water shortages across Iran.

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