Persian Gulf
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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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...
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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Iran’s opposition movement brought its struggle back to the streets of Tehran on Wednesday, turning the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover —...
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An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country’s most powerful man to his face.
Mahmoud...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Mohsen Mirdamadi had been applauded as a hero by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for helping to lead the takeover of the United States Embassy in Iran 30 years ago...
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A new showdown looms in Iran this week, as the regime and its intrepid opposition gear up for what may be their biggest street confrontation since the protests that...
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Iran’s leadership has once again equivocated after agreeing to a deal that would ease its nuclear standoff with the West. But this time, that may be as much a product...
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The attack which killed the national Deputy Commander of the ground forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (RG), General Noor Ali Shooshtari and the provincial...
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A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
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What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
Filling a gap of info covering an...
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Recently, IAEA designed an agreement for Iran to reduce the amount of nuke material and stop her possibility of making nuclear bomb. The United States and its allies...
made popular Oct 31 2009
A worried Iranian airline pilot asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch early on Thursday, highlighting once again the notorious...
made popular Oct 30 2009
Iran will accept a UN deal on its nuclear programme, but only if “very important changes” are made, Iranian state media have reported.
Al Alam TV quoted...
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On Sunday, officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspected for the first time a controversial uranium-enrichment facility under construction near...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Of course, the French foreign minister did not make the threat or warning on behalf of his own nation of La France but on behalf of Israel. While in Beirut, Bernard...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Direct talks between arch foes, Israel and Iran, in 30 years, were held under the auspices of an initiative of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
According to...
made popular Oct 26 2009
A judge and five members of the same family were killed in the Iranian capital during a dispute, local media quoted judicial sources as saying.
made popular Oct 24 2009
A representative of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a senior Iranian official met last month to discuss the chances of declaring the Middle East a nuclear-free...
made popular Oct 23 2009
The Iranian regime has a problem, and it’s not a velvet revolution or Israel’s threat to bomb its nuclear facilities. No, what really keeps the mullahs up...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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