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Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB, (Persian: صدا و سيمای جمهوری اسلامی ايران‎, Sedā va Sima-ye Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān), formerly called the National Iranian Radio and Television until the Islamic revolution of 1979, is a giant Iranian corporation in control of radio and television which is among the largest media organizations in Asia and Pacific region, and a regular member of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

IRIB's place in Iran's civil code[link]

According to Article 175 of the Iranian constitution,

IRIB's northeast gate along Valiasr Ave.

1. The freedom of expression and dissemination of thoughts in the Radio and Television of the Islamic Republic of Iran must be guaranteed in keeping with the Islamic criteria and the best interests of the country.
2. The appointment and dismissal of the head of the Radio and Television of the Islamic Republic of Iran rests with the Leader. A council consisting of two representatives each of the President, the head of the judiciary branch, and the Islamic Consultative Assembly shall supervise the functioning of this organization.
3. The policies and the manner of managing the organization and its supervision will be determined by law.

Prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, IRIB was known as National Iranian Radio & Television (NIRT).

The constitution further specifies that the director of the organization is chosen directly by the Supreme Leader for five years, and two representatives each from the judiciary, the president, and the parliament oversee the organization. The first director after 1979 Revolution was Sadeq Qotbzadeh. The current director is Ezzatollah Zarghami. The previous directors included Ali Larijani and Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani. Sima Festival is the biggest and most important TV productions contest sponsoring annually by IRIB organization. Winners are the best producers, directors, actors and directors in various categories honored by organization's head and receive valuable prizes.

In march 24,2012 IRIB Director Zarghami was added to the European Union sanctions list. acording to the EU IRIB has broadcast forced confessions of detainees and a series of "show trials" in August 2009 and December 2011. These constitute a clear violation of international provisions on fair trial and the right to due process.^[1]

Facts about IRIB[link]

• IRIB has branches in 45 countries worldwide, including France, Belgium, Malaysia, UK, the United States, and broadcasts in more than 25 languages.
• IRIB broadcasts 8 national television channels, 4 international news television channel, six satellite television channels for international viewers, and 30 provincial television channel all around Iran. Fifty percent of those 30 provincial channels use the local accent or dialect. The IRIB provides twelve major radio stations as well, and an international service. IRIB has 27 world service channels.^[2]
• IRIB also has Arabic, English and Spanish channels.
• IRIB produces 5000 hours of TV shows, 300 movies and 20,000 minutes of animated movies, annually.^[3]

Affiliates[link]

• Soroush Press, a publisher of some magazines including Soroush Weekly, Soroush Koodakan, Soroush Nojavan, Soroush Javan, Soroush Banovan and publishes books, too. It was founded at 1975.
• Jamejam Daily is the official organ of the IRIB organization.
• IRIB News Department is a news agency affiliated to the IRIB Organization.
• IRIB has a movie production company, called Sima Film.
• IRIB also outsources media production to numerous privately owned domestic media companies.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

	Iran portal
	Television portal

• IRIB's official website (Persian)
• Jamejam Daily the official organ (Persian)
• IRIB News Department
• IRIB's publications (Persian)
• IRIB's Library (Persian)
• www.IRTVS.com Online live broadcasting

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Thierry Meyssan (born 18 May 1957) is a French journalist and political activist.

He is the author of investigations into the extreme right-wing (particularly about the National Front Militias, which are the object of a parliamentary investigation and caused a separation of the extreme right-wing party), as well as into the Catholic Church (Opus Dei, for example).

Meyssan's book 9/11: The Big Lie (L'Effroyable imposture) challenges the official account of events of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Career[link]

In 1994, Meyssan became a staff member of the Parti Radical de Gauche, a center-left political organization, and he participates in the campaign of Bernard Tapie (1994 European elections) and Christiane Taubira (2002 presidential elections).

In 1994, he founded the Voltaire Network and also created Project Ornicar, associations promoting freedom of expression and thinking, of which he is currently president.

From 1996 to 1999, he worked as substitute coordinator of the National Committee of Surveillance against the extreme right, which held weekly meetings with the 45 major political parties, unions and associations belonging to the French left-wing in order to draw up a common response to escalating intolerance.

Between 1999 and 2002, Meyssan replaced Emma Bonino in the leading post of the Anti-prohibitionist Radical Coordination, an international organization aiming to decriminalize drug use as a means to cut organized crime's main source of income.

[edit] Publication of The Big Lie

In 2002, he published the controversial work on the September 11 terrorist attacks—9/11: The Big Lie—in which Meyssan argues that such attacks were organized by a faction of what he calls "the US military industrial complex" in order to impose a military regime. The book was translated into 28 languages;^[1] it was followed by Le Pentagate, a book arguing that the attack against the Pentagon was not carried out by a commercial airliner but a missile.

The central thesis of Le Pentagate, that a Boeing 757 did not hit The Pentagon, has been heavily criticised by other prominent 9/11 conspiracists such as Jim Hoffman.^[2][3][4]

He started a campaign at the United Nations to initiate an international investigation commission to revisit the general consensus regarding the 9/11 attacks, but he was not able to reach his objective. There was little support, except from the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Later activities[link]

In November 2005, Thierry Meyssan presided over the Axis for Peace 2005 Colloquium, which gathered over 130 participants from 37 nations in order to discuss the international situation and call a people’s mobilization in favour of international law and world peace and against the neoconservative trend.^{[citation needed]}

Meyssan is staying in Damascus (Syria). He is a journalist for the Russian weekly magazine Odnako (Однако).^[5]

Other areas of research[link]

Meyssan also believes the Beslan massacre was thought out and perpetrated by the CIA, through the terrorist leader Shamil Basayev, who Meyssan insists was a CIA strawman. The purpose of the massacre in Beslan had been, claims Meyssan, an attempt by the USA to gain control of the resources of the Caspian Sea.^[6]

2011 Libyan civil war[link]

This section requires expansion.

On 22 August 2011, Meyssan while stuck at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, reported live, by voice, to the Russian television network Russia Today. He claimed that, contrary to other reports, Gaddafi forces had driven the rebels from most of the city. At the same time he described that he and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya felt in danger, accusing other CNN and BBC journalists at the hotel of being spies from the CIA and the MI6, who were allegedly giving information on objectives to the NATO and the NTC militias.

Thet same day, Meyssan reported that U.S. agents, disguised as journalists at the Rixos hotel (as he had previously indicated) had marked him for assassination. He then stated that the identities of these spies would be released in due course.^[7] Five countries offered protection to Meissan and Nazemroaya in their embassies, but they were unable to reach any of them, because of the heavy fighting around the hotel and the encirclement of some of that embassies by NTC militias^{[8][dead link][9]}

Works[link]

• La Protection des homosexuels dans le droit européen de Collectif, Projet Ornicar éd. (Paris), 1993, ISBN 2-910209-00-8.
• L'Intégration des transsexuels de Collectif, Projet Ornicar éd. (Paris), 1993, ISBN 2-910209-01-6.
• Charles Millon, le porte-glaive de Collectif, Golias (Lyon), 1999, ISBN 2-911453-39-5.
• L'Énigme Pasqua, Golias (Lyon), 2000, ISBN 2-911453-88-3.
• Terrorisme en soutane : Jean-Paul II contre l'IVG par le Réseau Voltaire pour la liberté d'expression, L'Esprit frappeur (Paris), 2000, ISBN 2-84405-141-3.
• 9/11 The Big Lie, Carnot Publishing (London), 2002, ISBN 1-59209-026-5.
• Pentagate, USA Books (New York), 2002, ISBN 1-59209-028-1.
• Os Senhores da Guerra, Frenesi (Lisboa), 2002, ISBN 972-8351-67-4.
• Foreword (with Jean Ziegler), Le Cartel Bush, Timéli (Genève), 2004, ISBN 2-940342-05-9.
• Politicamente Incorrecto, postface by Fidel Castro, Ciencias sociales (Cuba), 2004, ISBN 959-06-0640-7.
• Foreword (with José Saramago), El Neron del siglo XXI, Apostrofe (Madrid), 2004, ISBN 84-455-0258-1.
• L'Effroyable imposture 1 & Le Pentagate, Nouvelle édition annotée, Demi-lune (Paris), 2007, ISBN 978-2-9525571-6-0.
• Resistere alla menzogna in Zero, Perché la versione ufficiale sull'11/9 è un falso (avec Giulietto Chiesa), Piemme (Milan), 2007, ISBN 978-88-384-6838-4.
• L'Effroyable imposture 2. Manipulations et désinformation, Editions Alphée-Jean-Paul Bertrand (Paris), 2007, ISBN 978-2-7538-0239-1.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Henley, Jon (April 1, 2002). "US invented air attack on Pentagon, claims French book". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,677112,00.html. Retrieved 2006-03-01. 
• Presentation by Thierry Meyssan under the auspices of the Arab League, Zayed Center, April 8, 2002.
• French author calls for probe into September 11 attacks, Khaleej Times, April 9, 2002.
• James S. Robbins 9/11 Denial. The French bestseller and its company, National Review, April 9, 2002.
• Thierry Meyssan, The "Clash of Civilizations", Voltaire Network, June 4, 2004.
• Did a Plane Hit the Pentagon? French Conspiracy Theorist Claims It Did Not, U.S. Département of State, June 28, 2005.
• Thierry Meyssan, Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic 26 July 2008

External links[link]

• Voltaire Network Official Web Site
• Axis for Peace, Official Web Site
• snopes.com
• Pentagon missile hoax
• The Pentagon No-757-Crash Theory Booby Trap for 9/11 Skeptics

Ali Karimi

Karimi in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Mohammad-Ali Karimi Pashaki
Date of birth	(1978-11-08) 8 November 1978 (age 33)
Place of birth	Karaj, Iran
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder / Deep-lying Forward
Club information
Current club	Persepolis
Number	8
Youth career
1990–1991	Naft Tehran[2][3]
1991–1994	Saipa[4]
1994–1996	Fath Tehran
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1996–1998	Fath Tehran
1998–2001	Persepolis	43	(11)
2001–2005	Al-Ahli		(44)
2005–2007	Bayern Munich	33	(3)
2007–2008	Qatar SC	27	(5)
2008–2009	Al-Sailiya	0	(0)
2008–2009	→ Persepolis (loan)	21	(5)
2009–2011	Steel Azin	40	(14)
2011	Schalke 04	1	(0)
2011–	Persepolis	28	(12)
National team‡
1998–	Iran	121	(38)
Honours Competitor for  Iran Asian Games Gold 1998 Bangkok Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 May 2012. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 May 2012

Mohammad-Ali Karimi Pashaki (Persian: محمدعلی کریمی پاشاکی‎, born on 8 November 1978) better known as Ali Karimi, is an Iranian professional footballer who currently plays for Persepolis in Iran Pro League and Iran national football team. He was awarded the Asian Footballer of the Year in 2004. He is capable of playing on the wings, as an attacking midfielder or as a deep-lying forward. He is known for ball skill and dribbling runs.

Karimi began his career with Fath Tehran youth club and joined Persepolis in 1998. Internationally, Karimi has been capped 119 times since making his debut in October 1998, and has scored 38 goals. He has participated in five major tournaments including 1998 Asian Games, 2000, 2004, and 2007 Asian Cups and 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Club career[link]

Karimi started his professional career with second division side Fath Football Club in 1997 where training was conducted on the streets with a plastic ball.

Persepolis[link]

In 1998, Karimi joined Persepolis football club, which won the domestic double in 1999 and the championship again in 2000. He attended a trial with Perugia Calcio, but the transfer was aborted when Perugia deemed the transfer fee too high.^[5] There was also reportedly an offer from Spain's Atlético Madrid who were willing to pay Karimi $5 million dollars in a six-year contract,^{[citation needed]} but Karimi remained at Al Ahli because he wanted to stay close to home.^[6]

Al-Ahli[link]

Karimi signed with Al Ahli in the United Arab Emirates in 2001. In that season Al-Ahli managed to win its first trophy, when they became the Winners of the President Cup in 2001–02 season.

He scored a league-high 14 goals for Al Ahli in 2004.^[6]

Bayern Munich[link]

On 3 May 2005, Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich's website announced that they signed a one year contract with Karimi who became the third Iranian after Ali Daei and Vahid Hashemian to try his luck with Bayern.^[7][8] In October 2004, Iran hosted Germany in a friendly game in which Karimi played. The magazine kicker picked Karimi as the man of the match. FC Bayern's scouts studied Karimi in Dubai closer and came back with a recommendation not to sign the player due to doubts over his fitness. Felix Magath decided to go ahead with the signing despite the negative recommendations.^[9]

On 13 August 2005, Karimi made his starting debut for Bayern when Felix Magath put him on the starting line-up of a 5–2 victory against Bayer Leverkusen on the second day of Bundesliga, in which he played on the left side of the midfield. Karimi made an assist to Roy Makaay for Bayern's second goal followed by his first goal in the Bundesliga.^[10] He came off in the 58th minute for Brazilian international Zé Roberto and received a warm ovation from the traveling Munich fans.^[11] Karimi scored on his first UEFA Champions League appearance against Rapid Vienna on 22 November 2005.^[12] On 17 December 2005, Karimi played for 88 minutes and scored a goal in Bayern's 2–1 win over Borussia Dortmund.^[13]

Karimi made his 25th appearance for Bayern on 4 March 2006 against Hamburg, which resulted in an automatic 12-month extension to his one-year contract that would expire on 30 June 2007. Unfortunately, he injured his ankle in the same game which sidelined him for six weeks.^[14]

In the 2006–07 season, Karimi was often kept on the bench. Karimi expressed his belief that it would be his last season with Bayern and his contract would not be renewed. It was confirmed that Red Bull Salzburg made an offer from Karimi, which he rejected.^[15] Al-Ahli also made an official bid for him, which was eventually vetoed by Felix Magath as Munich's midfield was depleted by the sudden retirement of Sebastian Deisler.^[16] On 29 May 2007, Bayern Munich announced Karimi would be leaving the club, though his new club was not yet known.

Qatar SC[link]

On 3 July 2007, Karimi announced that he had signed a two-year deal with Qatar Sports Club. Karimi was believed to have put pen to a contract worth around £3.2 million, with a clause allowing him to return to Europe at any time.^[17]

Al-Sailiya[link]

On 13 July 2008, Karimi signed a two-year contract with Al-Sailiya that is said to be worth around £4.7 million.^[18]

Persepolis[link]

Persepolis' then chairman, Dariush Mostafavi, reached an agreement with Karimi after a one-hour-long telephone conversation. Persepolis would have to pay Al-Sailiyah in order to release Karimi from his contract. Mostafavi claimed the release fee was around US$ 310,000. Karimi joined Persepolis on a loan,^[19] and signed with Persepolis on a one-year contract on 6 September 2008.^[20]

Karimi scored his first goal since his return to Persepolis in the Tehran derby. With Esteghlal leading 1–0, Karimi equalized for Persepolis two minutes from time.^[21] On 9 October 2008, Karimi scored a hat trick against Abumoslem but could not prevent Persepolis losing 3–4.^[22]

However, Karimi's contract was not extended reportedly because of a strained relationship with Persepolis chief executive Abbas Ansarifard.^[23] While Ansarifard claimed that the club offered Karimi a contract but he did not show up, Karimi claimed that Persepolis kept him waiting for four weeks for nothing.^[24]

Steel Azin[link]

On 29 July 2009, Karimi joined newly promoted Steel Azin on a one-year deal. He would reportedly be paid US$ 400,000 for the season.^[25]

After joining Steel Azin, Karimi scored for four consecutive matches at the start of the season. On 14 August 2009, he scored the second goal in Steel Azin's 4–3 win over Saba.^[26] He scored a brace against Shahin in Steel Azin's 2–1 victory.^[27] On 4 December 2009, Karimi converted a penalty in the 52nd minute against Pas FC to score his 11th goal of the season.^[28] On 6 March 2010, during his team's match against Saipa, Karimi was sent off for pushing Majid Ayoubi after Ayoubi had fouled him.^[29]

In January 2010, it was reported that Al-Ahli made an offer of US$500,000 to sign Karimi on a loan deal until the end of the 2009–10 season, which was rejected by Steel Azin.^[30] It was reported that he had been sacked by the club for not fasting during the Holy Month of Ramadan.^[31]

Schalke 04[link]

On 31 January, 2011, Karimi signed for Schalke under a five-month deal upon passing a medical examination.^[32][33] He made his first appearance for the German club on 5 April 2011, coming on for Raúl in the last minutes of the second half in a Champions League quarter final match against Inter before coming on as substitute against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the German Bundesliga in his second and final match for Schalke.

Persepolis[link]

On 15 June 2011, Persepolis chairman Habib Kashani announced that they reached an agreement with Karimi and he will be play for Persepolis in 2011–12 Persian Gulf Cup and 2011–12 Hazfi Cup.^[34] This is the second time that Karimi is back to his native club, Persepolis. Karimi was also appointed as Club captain. He made his debut in match against Malavan and scored his first goal in the season for Persepolis in match against Shahrdari Tabriz.

Club career statistics[link]

• Last Update: 23 May 2012