Behdad

Who's hotThe German Matthias Stainer will be hoping to add to the gold medal he won in the +105kg category in Beijing but he will have to beat Evgeny Chigishev of Russia and Behdad Salimikordasiabi of Iran.

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"When the government takes steps to control the society, they aim at the middle class," said Behdad, a 42-year-old journalist who has been unemployed since his newspaper was closed two years ago.

Iran's middle class to be hard hit as subsidy program is overhauled Thomas Erdbrink 2010

The odalisque's transformation by European culture emphasizes the doubled colonization of the feminine, culturally and sexually; or, as Ali Behdad suggests of French literature, it presents the "Orient not only as an exotic but an 'erotic' other" (109).

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Behdad Salimikordasiabi of Iran won the men's super heavyweight division by breaking the world record in the snatch.

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Behdad added: Iran's humanitarian aid arrived in Port-au-Prince, via Venezuela.

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The pair, who seek musicians to take with them to London, are shown around the underground scene by the stubbly middleman Nader (Hamed Behdad), a film fanatic who makes money selling bootleg DVDs.

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Behdad received the suspended jail term from a judge for writing an article against Ali

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Behdad added: Iran's humanitarian aid arrived in Port-au-Prince, via Venezuela.

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Ahmadinejad criticised the verdict, which he said was given despite the jury finding Behdad not guilty.

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As the two indie innocents are taken under the wing of music-loving wide-boy Nader (Hamed Behdad), the film becomes a Linklater-esque romp through Tehran's clandestine rock underground.

Film | guardian.co.uk Sam Richards 2010