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NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey of Jewish voters in the battleground state of Ohio reveals that 64 percent will choose President Obama, and 29 percent will vote for Governor Romney on Election Day. It is the third and last in a series of pre-election polls of American Jewish opinion. The others were a national survey and a separate poll in Florida. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "Each survey...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch (see www.larryklayman.com and www.freedomwatchusa.org), called upon fellow Jew Jeffrey Katzenberg, perhaps the most powerful man in Hollywood and a huge Obama supporter - Katzenberg having donated or raised as reported today over $7 million for the president's reelection - to use his considerable influence to push Obama to join with Israel at this time to militarily remove...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Late last month, Iran began making moves towards creating their own, filtered version of the Internet in order to protect themselves from outside attacks against their government, military and universities. This self-contained Internet not only allows Iran to tighten down security on their internal networks, it also prevents snooping from outside agencies. Iran’s first move towards this protected Internet was to block Google’s...
BRUSSELS, September 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Statement of the International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ): With the announced decision for the removal of the Iranian democratic opposition - the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) - from the U.S. black list and informing the Congress of this decision, we expect official announcement of this decision by the U.S. State Department in the upcoming days. This is a major political achievement...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Iran moved forward with their previously discussed plans for a domestic version of the Internet over the weekend, as government officials announced that Google would be one of the first websites to be filtered through their state-controlled information network. According to Reuters, officials are claiming that the country's self-contained version of the World Wide Web, which was first announced last week, is part of an initiative...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Iran has devised what they believe to be the most effective way to protect themselves from cyber attacks launched by terrorist hackers and outside governments: They’ll create their own version of the Internet. According to the Washington Post, the Iranian government has begun to lay out technical plans to build their own, self-contained version of the Internet, giving the country tighter control over the information and users...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, over twenty major Iranian-American organizations across the United States released a joint statement representing tens of thousands of Iranian Americans throughout the United States. They welcomed the decision by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for notifying the US Congress that she has removed the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) under...
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure America Now, a nonpartisan organization, announced today a substantial television ad buy on Florida, including the Miami, West Palm Beach and Fort Meyers markets. The initial ad to run will be the just released "America, Waiting Until When?", which features Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing the looming threat of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. "I say, 'Wait for what'?" Netanyahu asks rhetorically, in...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR), representing thousands of Iranian-Americans whose loved ones are facing a humanitarian crisis as refugees in Camp Liberty in Iraq, welcomes the reported decision by Secretary Hillary Clinton to remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The delisting of the MEK, which all patriotic Iranians in Iran and across...
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than two-thirds -- 69 percent -- of Jewish voters in Florida say they will choose President Obama over Governor Romney, who will win 25 percent of the state's Jewish vote, according to a new American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) Obama won 76 percent of the Florida Jewish vote in 2008. Jews comprise about four percent of the voters in Florida, which is widely...
Latest Iran Reference Libraries
The Persian Gulf is located in the western part of Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It’s an addition to the Indian Ocean. The Gulf was the focal point of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, which each side assaulted the other’s oil tankers. In the year 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was known as the “Persian Gulf War” or otherwise known as the “Gulf War”, despite the fact that this disagreement was mainly a land conflict, when Iraq raided Kuwait...
The Persian leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica), also known as the Caucasian leopard, is a subspecies of the leopard that can be found in the Caucasus mountains, eastern Turkey southern Turkmenistan, northern Iran, and some western areas of Afghanistan. Its range in the Caucuses is now fragmented, but once encompassed all areas except those within steppe habitats. It prefers to live in many habitats, but in the Greater Caucuses, it prefers subalpine meadows, rocky ravines, and broadleaved...
The Onager (Equus hemionus), is a large mammal belonging to the horse family. It is native to the deserts of Syria, Iran, Pakistan, India, Israel, and Tibet. It is sometimes referred to as the half ass or Asian Wild Ass. There are six subspecies recognized, of which one is extinct and two endangered. Their range has contracted greatly under pressures of hunting and habitat loss. Onagers are a little larger than donkeys at about 640 pounds and 6.8 feet lengthwise. They are short-legged...
The sand Cat (Felis margarita) is a small wild cat 19.69 inches (50 cm) long, plus an 11.81 in (30 cm) tail. It is distributed over African and Asian deserts. The name "Desert Cat" is reserved for a subspecies of the true Wild Cat, but it would go better with this species. It lives in those dry areas that are even too hot and dry for the Desert Cat. These areas are the Sahara, the Arabian Desert, and the deserts of Iran and Pakistan. The head is conspicuously broad and the ears are large...
