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The Iranian leadership always takes tough stance on its national and international policies and never takes U turns easily. Stance on Palestinian Issue and its Nuclear Programme are noticeable in this regard. Most recently Iran has cancelled the...
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Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal.The seizure of her prize is an expression of the Iranian government’s harsh...
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Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools, a report said Wednesday, as hard-liners expand an ideological “soft...
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Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support for his country’s nuclear ambitions and expanded his reach in Latin America in a three-country goodwill tour that...
made popular Nov 25 2009
After more than five months of going it alone, Iran’s opposition Green Movement is reaching out to the United States for help. Via public and private channels,...
made popular Nov 25 2009
Iran’s moral police have arrested a dozen couples for engaging in illicit sexual acts, including swapping partners, the conservative Jomhuri Eslami reported on...
made popular Nov 24 2009
After making insensitive and derogatory comments on Iranian NBA player Hamed Haddadi, Fox Sports announcers Ralph Lawler and Michael Smith have been suspended one game...
made popular Nov 24 2009
Iran has begun a large-scale war games air defensive aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack. An air force commander is boasting his country can deter...
made popular Nov 23 2009
President Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran deserves some award for its schizophrenic nature. Obama claims he wants to reach out his hand to an uncleanched...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election,...
made popular Nov 18 2009
International inspectors who gained access to Iran’s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant voiced strong suspicions in a report on Monday that the...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Yemen has repeated its accusation that Iran is funding Houthi rebel fighters in their war against government forces in the north of the country.
General Yahya Salih,...
made popular Nov 16 2009
An impasse in nuclear talks between world powers and Iran would only hurt the West by making Tehran push harder to advance its technology, according to the latest...
made popular Nov 16 2009
Turkey and the UN’s nuclear watchdog have confirmed they are discussing a proposal to allow Iran to store some of its enriched uranium in Turkey.
Iran is under...
made popular Nov 16 2009
Iran’s recently revealed uranium enrichment hall is a highly fortified underground space that appears too small to house a civilian nuclear program, but large...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Latin America has become the battleground for competing Middle East powers, whose leaders are criss-crossing the continent seeking support from an increasingly...
made popular Nov 12 2009
There seems, as with many problems in Iraq, no good answer for Camp Ashraf, as tensions here rise and American soldiers get closer to leaving: what to do with the few...
made popular Nov 12 2009
I am still wondering at a degree of livability hypocrisy demonstrates even in modern civilized anti-Hitler Germany, an engine of Free Europe for progress and human...
made popular Nov 11 2009
If the Iranian regime is trying to send Obama hints that it is not interested in a compromise over its nuclear program, the regime has found a new way to do so:
Three...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Iran accused three detained Americans of spying Monday, signaling Tehran intends to put them on trial. It drew a sharp U.S. response that the charges are baseless...
made popular Nov 10 2009
The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
made popular Nov 7 2009
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It has become an American ritual: kissing the Saudi King’s rear. We all know why. Saudi Arabia has the oil and America the thirst. That is why U.S. president show...
made popular Apr 3 2009
The United Arab Emirates is officially not much more than a base for Western armies in the Middle East. The confederation of seven emirates already is home to several...
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After handing out my individual douchbag of the year award to Ahmed Chalabi, I decided to hand out another. But his one is not individual, but, rather, a collective...
made popular Dec 4 2008
Journalist Mike Davis’ piece on Dubai is something I felt the need to share.
Mike Davis’ piece “Fear and Money In Dubai” exposes a part of...
made popular Oct 21 2008
A dear Palestinian friend once remarked to me in despair that Palestinians are not liked and looked down upon by Gulf Arabs. Why? Because Gulf Arabs are wealthy and...
made popular Oct 20 2008
Iran warned Monday that it could easily close a critical Persian Gulf waterway for oil shipments and claimed possession of a new long-range naval weapon that could sink...
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Everyone knows that it is not possible to alter the historical registered names and falsify the recognized geographical facts for the sake of states or...
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The U.S. Navy’s Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Port Royal, equiped with AEGIS combat systems, and “Tomahawk” ASM/LAM cruise missiles, patrols in the Persian Gulf in this 1997 file photo. Iranian boats harassed and provoked three American Navy ships in...
