The pop-art exhibition in Iran that was prohibited by the government for being against Islam and carrying pornographic items is back on display after being hidden underground for 30 years.
The works of art, which were kept safely underground with the help of Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the last Iranian Shah before the Islamic Revolution, are now open for display in Tehran.
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The Iranian Chief of General Staff Hasan Fruzabadi held Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar responsible for bloodshed in Syria in a statement published on the Revolutionary Guard’s website.
“To help the war plans of the Great Satan (USA) is not a good principal to follow for neighboring countries. If they are acting on this basis, then they should know that the next time, it will be Turkey’s and other countries turn to take the fall,” Fruzabadi said.
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Kurdish rebels abducted late Monday three Turkish soldiers in the southeast of the country, the Anatolia news agency reported quoting the local governor.
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Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday hoped the rival March 14 camp will be “allowed” to return to the national dialogue table, warning that the alternative to dialogue would be “chaos.”
“Only dialogue is possible and no one wants to eliminate the other. We hope they will be allowed to return to dialogue and we hope dialogue will resume. Dialogue is prohibited in Syria because the Americans, the West and Israel are not allowing the Syrian opposition to engage in dialogue,” Nasrallah said in a televised address during an iftar banquet held by the women’s activities department of the Islamic Resistance Support Organization.
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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat praised on Monday President Michel Suleiman’s “important political positions” on Army Day, most notably his remarks that “there can be no partnership with the army and forces responsible for maintaining Lebanon’s security.”
He said in his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa magazine: “We are seeking arms for the defense of Lebanon alone. We don’t want a defense strategy for the Hormuz Strait or any other area.”
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Rescue workers searched Monday for more than 100 people trapped by a mudslide in southwestern China, while in another part of the country 400 workers were trapped by a flood in a railway tunnel.
The official Xinhua News Agency says the rain-triggered mudslide engulfed a village in Yunnan province on Monday morning, initially trapping at least 200 people. It also stated that firefighters rescued more than 80 people by noon.
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As the Turkish Girls Volleyball Team was playing an important game against USA in the London Olympics, Turkish player Neslihan Darnel, aged 29, received an interesting tweet.
Mostly known by his stage name “Flea,” Michael Peter Balzary of the World-renowned band Red Hot Chili Peppers declared his love to the young volleyball player over twitter.
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NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from the surface of Mars.
The one-ton mobile lab is the largest rover ever sent to Mars, and its high-speed landing was the most daring to date, using a rocket-powered sky crane to lower the six-wheeled vehicle gently to the Red Planet's surface.
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The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday criticizing the Security Council's failure to act on the Syria conflict, which U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon said has become a "proxy war".
The resolution, which condemned President Bashar Assad's use of "heavy weapons" in his battle against the rebellion against his rule, was passed by 133 votes with 12 countries against and 31 abstaining.
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Protesters in Aleppo took to the streets Friday to demand death for Syrian President Bashar Assad even as violence raged there and 90 people were killed nationwide.
The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said regime forces shot dead at least 90 people across the country, among them 66 in Hama that witnessed a “massacre” in its al-Arbaeen neighborhood.
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