Russia’s announcement last week that it does not intend to supply S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran and the decree signed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, banning the sale of tanks, missile and cannon systems, fighter aircraft, military helicopters, and vessels to Iran, have triggered an outcry of criticism of Russia in Iranian press… Continue reading
This week, Iranian media and top officials commended President Ahmadinejad for the speech given to the UN General Assembly last Thursday (September 23). In his address, the president claimed that the majority of the American people as well as other… Continue reading
On thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that the relationship between Turkey and Israel might be a permanent problem, because Turkish civilians were killed during Israel’s raid on the Mavi Marmara… Continue reading
Tehran is bent on military action to settle scores with Israel and the United States whom it suspects of planting the malignant Stuxnet cyber worm in the computer systems of its nuclear, military and strategic infrastructure. Iran secretly appealed to a number of computer security experts in West and East Europe with… Continue reading
Iran admitted Monday, Sept. 27 it was under full-scale cyber terror attack. The official IRNA news agency quoted Hamid Alipour, deputy head of Iran’s government Information Technology Company, as saying that the Stuxnet computer worm “is mutating and wreaking further havoc on computerized industrial equipment… Continue reading
Karoubi called on Rafsanjani to exercise the constitutional powers of the assembly and take all measures necessary to prevent the principle of “rule of the religious jurisprudent” from being eroded by the Supreme Leader’s negligence in performing his duties and abuse of his powers… Continue reading
After about one hundred years of domination, the system of Capitalism and the existing world order has proved to be unable to provide appropriate solution to the problems of societies, thus coming to an end. I shall try to examine the two main causes of this failure and picture some features of the ideal future order… Continue reading
The Iranian regime took advantage of the annual Quds Day events to highlight an alternative political and ideological agenda to that of the US; strongly criticized the Israel-PA negotiations; called to continue the “resistance” (terrorism); and spread vicious incitement against Israel, the Jewish people, the US, and the West… Continue reading
The United States has embarked on a clandestine cyber war against Iran and that Israel has established elite cyber war units for this purpose. Obama has resolved to deal with the nuclear impasse with Iran by going after the Islamic republic on two tracks… Continue reading
The Iranian media publicized an interview with an Iranian expert on Palestine who visited Turkey and met with IHH operatives. He described the circumstances surrounding the establishment of IHH as an Islamist, jihadist organization whose operatives fought in Bosnia, and stressed the influence of… Continue reading
The affair began when Iranian wrestler Taleb Ne’matpour was forced to withdraw from the World Wrestling Championship in Moscow last week when he was drawn against an Israeli opponent. In an interview given by Mohammad Reza Yazdani-Khorram, head of the Iranian Wrestling Federation, following… Continue reading
This analysis identifies patterns exhibited by the Iranian government and the Iranian people since ancient times. Most importantly, it identifies critical elements of Iranian culture that have been systematically ignored by policymakers for decades… Continue reading
Iran has crossed the critical nuclear threshold taking it nearer to being able to arm ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, weapons inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency reported last week… Continue reading
A new video game titled “Attack on the Freedom Flotilla” was shown in Tehran this week at a ceremony attended by the deputy chief of the joint staffs of the armed forces on culture and media affairs and the Basij commander. The game deals with the IDF’s takeover of the ship Mavi Marmara this… Continue reading
The president’s plan to appoint some of his close associates as special envoys on foreign affairs has been increasingly criticized by Iran’s media and political establishment this week. The president recently announced his intention to appoint his… Continue reading
Nearly one hundred pro-government rioters attacked the northern Tehran residence of reformist opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi. Saham News, a website affiliated with Karoubi, reported that the rioters had thrown stones and Molotov cocktails at… Continue reading
Strong criticism has been voiced in Iran this week over the resumption of the political dialogue between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. President Ahmadinejad himself personally lashed out against PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), claiming he had no mandate whatsoever to… Continue reading
The new round of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will fail to produce any positive results for the oppressed Palestinian people. The real representatives of the Palestinian people (i.e. Iran’s proxy Hamas) had serious qualms about these negotiations… Continue reading
A vice president’s mention of the slaughter of the Armenian people in World War I has sparked a diplomatic incident between Iran and Turkey this week. Speaking at a conference titled… Continue reading
Last week, the Iranian press extensively covered the launch of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, presenting it as a tremendous achievement for Iran and a crushing defeat for the Western policy of sanctions and threats… Continue reading
For the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV and the Shi’ite Amal NBN-TV broadcast “The Christ,” an Iranian-produced series rife with an anti-Christian anti-Semitic expressions. The Lebanese Christians protested the program’s airing and it was taken off… Continue reading
This new Cold War represents the current ideological division in the Middle East between the “revolutionary bloc,” led chiefly by Iran, Syria, and more recently Turkey, and the “status-quo bloc,” led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt… Continue reading
Criticism of President Ahmadinejad by the conservative camp has reached new peaks this week. In an extended interview granted by conservative Majles member Ali Motahari to Soroush, a weekly affiliated with Iran Broadcasting, he claimed that… Continue reading
The Obama administration and Netanyahu government greeted the start-up of Iran’s first nuclear reactor at Bushehr with extraordinary meekness, given the grim military and strategic hazards it represents for the region and Israel in particular… Continue reading
After years of delays, the fueling of the Bushehr plant in southern Iran marks the startup of a facility for energy production that the U.S. once hoped to block as a way… Continue reading
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