ALMATY, Kazakhstan, March 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Senior officials from Iran are expected to discuss their country's fraught relations with the West during the annual Eurasian Media Forum (EAMF) to be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on April 27 - 28. An analysis of the issues that keep Iran in the world news headlines will be one of the highlights of this year's two-day conference, along with other topical themes such as the impact of Kazakhstan's current chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Also on the agenda are questions of media law and media freedom, the dangers of alarmist reporting of epidemics, the use of online social networks like Facebook and Twitter, 'citizen journalism' and celebrity politicians. The Iranian delegates are Ramin Mehmanparast, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, and Ali Akbar Ashari, Cultural Advisor to the President and Director of the National Library and Archives of Iran.

Twitter became the forum for supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi, as they posted defiant messages to the micro-blogging service on Tuesday.

Three Years in the Making, Landmark Television Event Presents the Behind-the-Scenes Story of Decades-Old Misunderstandings and Mistrust -- As Told by Key Officials on Both Sides Iran and The West Premieres Monday, June 22, 2009, at 9 p.m.

Politics have prompted Iran's conservatives to reverse their criticism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to Barack Obama, observers say. Ahmadinejad last week sent a letter to the U.S.

Text of report by the Economic Desk headlined "Replacing two deputy ministers from the Ministry of Power due to electricity and water problems" published by Iranian newspaper E'temad website on 24 August The power cuts and electricity blackouts have claimed a sacrificial victim in the days when the minister of power had announced that there was going to be a reduction in power disruptions.