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Monsef visit to Iran raises questions

Edit Toronto Sun 21 Oct 2016
This visit to Iran – a country with incredibly strict entry and exit rules - raises serious red flags, according to immigration experts and some in the Iranian community. In 2012, the Harper government severed diplomatic ties with Iran and closed the Iranian embassy in Ottawa ... In 2014, the Iranian regime made it even more difficult for Canadians who do not have status in Iran to travel there....

Portland Trail Blazers' Damian Lillard set to release debut album, featuring Lil Wayne, Juvenile

Edit The Oregonian 21 Oct 2016
The album will be available on iTunes, Apple Music and Spotify and features guest appearances from major figures in the rap industry, including Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Raphael Saadiq and Jamie Foxx. Lillard started releasing rap tracks under the moniker Dame D.O.L.L.A ... Music and rap is an important part of Lillard's identity and background ... two-time All-Star and All-NBA selection, franchise cornerstone and published rap artist....

Iran says will bring technicians back home from Kirkuk

Edit Press TV 21 Oct 2016
A senior Iranian diplomat says the Islamic Republic will bring its technicians back home from the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk following a deadly attack by Daesh Takfiri terrorists on a power station and other buildings near the city ... attack stood at three and dismissed reports that an injured Iranian technician had succumbed to his wounds....

Eminem re-emerges to savage Trump

Edit Arabnews 21 Oct 2016
Rap superstar Eminem re-emerged Wednesday with a loaded lyrical attack on Donald Trump, in a nearly eight-minute song in which he also identifies with the Black Lives Matter cause ... Eminem uploaded on YouTube the new song, entitled “Campaign Speech,” in which he offers his take on America in 2016 in a freestyle rap largely without a musical backdrop....

AFC U-19 Championship: Iran ease into quarter finals after beating Yemen 1-0

Edit Press TV 21 Oct 2016
... a 1-all tie against Qatar and play out a goalless draw against Japan who has now progressed into the quarters with the Iranian outfit....

IS suicide bombers kill 11 in Kirkuk power plant attack

Edit ITV 21 Oct 2016
... said the men entered the facility early on Friday, took 10 workers hostage, and demanded to be taken to two Iranians who worked there....

IS suicide bombers kill 11 workers at power plant near Kirkuk

Edit Belfast Telegraph 21 Oct 2016
Major Ahmed Kader Ali said the suicide bombers entered the facility early on Friday, took 10 workers hostage, and asked to be taken to the Iranians who worked there....

Suicide attack kills 16 in Iraq

Edit Khaleej Times 21 Oct 2016
Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked government targets in the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk and killed 16 at an Iranian-run construction site ......

Top Iranian students risk losing funding over US and Canadian visa delays

Edit The Guardian 21 Oct 2016
More than 100 top Iranian students admitted to US and Canadian universities have missed their first semester and fear losing their hard-fought bursaries or funding because of visa difficulties ... Iranian nationals hold one of the world’s most unloved passports and are often obliged go to extra lengths when applying to obtain visas, particularly from western countries....

The Latest: Iran: 4 Iranians killed in IS attack near Kirkuk

Edit The Oklahoman 21 Oct 2016
Iran's Foreign Ministry has condemned an Islamic State assault in Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk and says four Iranians were killed in that attack. The official IRNA news agency quoted ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying that another three Iranians were wounded in the assault ... It was not immediately clear if Iranians were targeted in other attacks ... One of the workers took them to the Iranians before escaping....

Ballin' Out Podcast: JoJo on Her Loyalty to the Patriots & NBA Legend Gary Payton ...

Edit Billboard 21 Oct 2016
The Seattle SuperSonics MVP even expressed his wish to have a basketball team in Seattle and reminisced on his sole rap record "Livin' Legal and Large" from the 1994 Epic Records compilation B-Ball's Best Kept Secret, which featured NBA players rocking the mic including Shaquille O'Neal, Jason Kidd and Payton.  ... Payton also revealed that he recruited a West Coast rap icon for an assist on his rhymes....

Wife Of Iranian-Austrian Jailed In Iran Proclaims His Innocence

Edit Voa News 21 Oct 2016
The wife of an Iranian-Austrian man sentenced recently by an Iranian court to 10 years in prison on spying charges has told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that her husband is a "simple businessman" unjustly imprisoned ... The others include 80-year-old Iranian-American Baquer Namazi and his son Siamak Namazi, Farhad Abd-Saleh, Alireza Omidvar and Nizar Zakka....

Iran respects neighbors’ territorial integrity: Foreign Ministry

Edit Press TV 21 Oct 2016
“Sectarianism, tribalism and fomenting religious tensions have never had a place in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s principled regional and international policies,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Thursday night....
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