[Iran Press TV Latest] The United States has incorporated a bill into its annual military budget, which will allocate millions of dollars for Persian-language broadcasts.
US President Barack Obama signed the Victims of Iranian Censorship Act (VOICE) into law earlier this week.
The bill was introduced by Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, Ted Kaufman, Lindsey Graham, and Robert Casey as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
According to the website of Senator Lieberman, the bill authorizes $50 million for the expansion of Persian-language broadcasting in Iran by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's Radio Farda and the Voice of America's Persian News Network.
It will also allocate another $25 million in internet-based activities, the website said.
Analysts in Iran say the move comes in response to the arrest of members of a US-based terrorist group -- the Kingdom Assembly of Iran.
The detainees admitted to having masterminded and carried out terrorist acts inside Iran, including the deadly bombing of a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz in April 2008. The group runs a Persian TV channel in the US.
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Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon has confirmed that Israel is running intelligence-gathering networks in Lebanon.
"When we are in conflict with an enemy, we gather information about them," Haaretz quoted Ya'alon as saying on Saturday.
"The moment Hezbollah renewed their attacks, we began to collect intelligence. We will stop when Hezbollah disarms itself and the [Israel-Lebanon] border is a border of peace," he added.
"We've infiltrated Hezbollah's high command with multiple agents. Naturally I can't say who they are on TV," he added.
"Squirrels, goats, wives -- all are at risk of being seduced. Oh, and we designed the microchips in your MP3 player. Hey -- you've won a free Madonna download! Click here."
In October, two explosions over occurred in southern Lebanon after Lebanon's Hezbollah discovered cables used for spying in the al-Abbad area near an Israeli border post.
The UN peacekeepers in Lebanon (UNIFIL) who were called out to investigate the cause of the blasts later confirmed that the explosions aimed at destroying Israeli espionage equipment.
"Preliminary indications are that these explosions were caused by explosive charges contained in unattended underground sensors which were placed in this area by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) apparently during the 2006 war," UNIFIL said in a statement.
Those sneaky juices somehow knew Hizb'allah would use those spaces to store war materiel after they left. How is an honest Muslim resistance movement to win against such people?!?
The UNIFIL had declared that the Israeli espionage operations in Lebaon, represent violations of Security Council resolution 1701 which halted the 33-day war.
Israel which has staged several wars in the region in its 60-year old history invaded Lebanon in 1982 in an operation dubbed as the Operation Peace for Galilee and occupied the southern Lebanon, but Hezbollah forces played as the key resistance movement and forced them to leave the country.
Gotta love the balanced viewpoint of Iran PressTV.
Once again in 2006, when Israel launched another offensive into Lebanon, it faced strong resistance from Hezbollah.
Israel sees Hezbollah's military might as the key hindrance to its expansionist policies in the region.
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Addendum: After consulting the entrails of a goat, top Iranian scientists agreed with the Israeli assessment of Solar precedence, and cited it as further evidence of Allah's favor.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian police will confront any "illegal" gatherings on Nov. 4, when the Islamic Republic marks the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, a semi-official news agency reported on Sunday.
Mehr News Agency reported the warning by deputy police chief Ahmadreza Radan a day after opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi appeared to urge his supporters to take part in rallies on that day.
"The 13th of Aban is a... rendezvous so we would remember anew that among us it is the people who are the leaders," Mousavi said in a statement on his website Kaleme.com
Several reformist websites also urged opposition supporters to gather on Wednesday and protest "peacefully" and not to resort to "violence even if they are attacked."
Opposition supporters clashed with police and government backers on Sept. 18, at the annual demonstrations in support of the Palestinians.
"The duty of the police is to protect public order, and based on the law we are obliged to prevent any move disturbing the public order," Radan said.
Radan said the police has the "obligation to prevent any disturbance of order in society."
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's government is planning to appoint a cleric in every school,
" As per this plan, clerics will take care of issues such as collective praying and answering religious questions and ambiguities in schools "
Education ministry official Ali Asghar
a reformist newspaper reported Sunday on a move that could radicalize education in the Islamic republic.
"We are now defining the details of a plan called 'permanent appointment of clerics in schools'," the daily Hayateno quoted education ministry official Ali Asghar Yazdani as saying.
Yazdan "As per this plan, clerics will take care of issues such as collective praying and answering religious questions and ambiguities in schools," Yazdani said.
Currently teachers themselves address such matters, although soon after the country's 1979 Islamic revolution, special teachers used to impart religious values in schools.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The United States has incorporated a bill into its annual military budget, which will allocate millions of dollars for Persian-language broadcasts. 
Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon has confirmed that Israel is running intelligence-gathering networks in Lebanon. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian police will confront any "illegal" gatherings on Nov. 4, when the Islamic Republic marks the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, a semi-official news agency reported on Sunday.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's government is planning to appoint a cleric in every school, 
