Posted on Tue, October 15, 2013 at 19:59 pm CEST
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Hossein Fereydoun, Senior Advisor and Younger Brother of Iran’s President Rouhani

Who is Hossein Fereydoun?… Continue reading

Topics: Iran 
Posted on Sun, September 22, 2013 at 14:05 pm CEST
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The “Iran is Now Moderate” Joke

Hassan Rouhani does not have a moderate record… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, June 22, 2013 at 13:31 pm CEST
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Obama Doctrine: Backing Middle East Radicals After 10 Previous Western Failures

History has shown that backing radical Arabic-speaking states or movements to redo the regional order have all ended badly… Continue reading

Topics: History • Islamofascism • Jew-Hatred • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Nazi Germany • Obamaism • Politics • Religion 
Posted on Mon, June 18, 2012 at 20:21 pm CEST
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Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring

Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • History • Iran • Muslim Brotherhood • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sun, May 20, 2012 at 14:51 pm CEST
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Subversion and Exporting the Islamic Revolution in Latin America

Iran invests considerable resources in its battle for hearts and minds and in exporting the Iranian revolution in Latin American countries… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Argentina • Brazil • Colombia • Culture • Hezbollah • Iran • Religion • Shi'ism • Shia Islam • Venezuela 
Posted on Sun, February 12, 2012 at 19:10 pm CET
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Iran needs to attack Israel by 2014

A number of conservative news websites in Iran published an article by blogger Ali-Reza Forghani discussing the rationale behind an attack on Israel from the point of view of Islamic religious law, based on interpretations of the term “jihad” in Islam and the thought of Ayatollah Khomeini… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Anti-Zionism • Iran • Jihadism • Security and Defense • Shi'ism 
Posted on Tue, January 31, 2012 at 19:00 pm CET
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Response to Ron Paul: Did U.S. Policy Make Today’s Islamist Iran Hate America?

Presidential candidate Ron Paul has said repeatedly that Iranians hate America because of its role in the 1953 coup overthrowing Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh… Continue reading

Topics: History • Iran • Politics • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 12:06 pm CEST
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I Hate Israel! I Hate America! I’m a Muslim! I’ve Got it All! Let Me Be Your Leader!

I hate Israel and want to destroy it! And besides we’re all Muslims. So let me lead the Middle East… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Egypt • Global Islam • Jew-Hatred • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, August 11, 2011 at 23:01 pm CEST
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Terrorism Returns to Egypt, Will Sanity about Islamism Arrive in the West?

We see the beginnings of terrorist Islamist groups in Egypt again, with a government unable or unwilling to stop them… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Copts • Egypt • Islamism • Salafism 
Posted on Wed, July 20, 2011 at 18:44 pm CEST
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A Tainted Alliance: The Rise and Fall of American Influence in Iran

The memory of centuries of foreign manipulation and interference is a constant factor in the foreign and domestic policy of modern Iran… Continue reading

Topics: Alon Sheinberg • Anti-Americanism • Britain • Iran • Russian Federation • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, March 20, 2011 at 16:11 pm CET
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Iran: Are the Events in the Arab World a Sign of the Mehdi’s Coming Return?

A documentary shown in Iran in the past several months has provoked a heated religious-legal debate… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, March 13, 2011 at 02:30 am CET
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U.S. Middle East Policy and Those Little Ideas That Get Millions of People Killed

I listened again to President Barack Obama’s main speech on Egypt back during the revolution and two phrases caught my ear… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, February 18, 2011 at 06:24 am CET
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Egypt Gets Its Khomeini: Qaradawi Returns in Triumph

Friday, February 18 may be a turning point in Egyptian history. On this day Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the best-known Muslim Brotherhood cleric in the world and… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Zionism • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Mon, February 7, 2011 at 17:04 pm CET
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Tunisia and “Moderate Islamists”: Rachid Ghanouchi Says it All

It’s true that Tunisia’s Islamist movement is less radical than that in other Arab countries. But it really says a lot that Rachid Ghanouchi, the most… Continue reading

Topics: Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Tunisia 
Posted on Sun, January 30, 2011 at 01:52 am CET
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The Revolt in Egypt and U.S. Policy

There is no good policy for the United States regarding the uprising in Egypt but the Obama Administration may be adopting something close to the worst option… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Jordan • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East • United States of America 
Posted on Fri, January 28, 2011 at 02:29 am CET
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Pro-Democratische Protesten in Midden-Oosten Gemakkelijke Prooi voor Islamisten

In een vrijdag verschenen artikel in de Jerusalem Post wijzen de Israëlische experts op het gevaar van een overname van de protesten door Islamisten die met andere bedoelingen de… Lees verder

Topics: Egypt • Hezbollah • Iran • Islamism • Israel • Lebanon • Muslim Brotherhood • Nederlands • The Middle East • Tunisia 
Posted on Sun, January 2, 2011 at 18:47 pm CET
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Ahmadinejad’s Office Chief Provokes Outrage Once Again

Ahmadinejad’s office chief Esfandiar Rahim Masha’i provoked another outrage this week after making two controversial remarks recently. Speaking at an artists’ convention held in the city of Arak in… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Mon, December 13, 2010 at 16:36 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: Arabische Staten Minachten Iran

De uitgelekte documenten van het Amerikaanse Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken laten een litanie van klachten zien van de Saoedisch en kleinere Golfstaten, alsmede Egypte, Jordanië en anderen, over onderwerpen zoals de nucleaire ambities van Teheran, de Iraanse betrokkenheid in Irak en… Lees verder

Topics: Bahrain • Egypt • Iran • Nederlands • Saudi Arabia • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • The Middle East • United Arab Emirates • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Tue, November 23, 2010 at 09:46 am CET
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Dispute About the Persian Gulf/Arabian Gulf Name

The historic dispute between Iran and the Arab world over the name of the Persian Gulf has once again stirred a controversy this week, after the term “Arabian Gulf” was used at the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. The term, which provoked… Continue reading

Topics: China • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran 
Posted on Sun, November 7, 2010 at 19:17 pm CET
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Revolutionary Guards Strongly Criticized President Ahmadinejad for Remarks About the Majles

In an unusual move, Payam-e Enghelab, a monthly published on behalf of the Supreme Leader’s representative in the Revolutionary Guards, strongly criticized President Ahmadinejad for his recent remarks about the status of the Majles… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, July 4, 2010 at 19:47 pm CEST
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Hizballah Spiritual Leader Muhammad Fadlallah died in a Beirut Hospital

Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh one of Shiite Islam’s main religious figures, died Sunday after a long illness. He was not a voice of moderation at all… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Zionism • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Iran • Iraq • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israel • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon • Shi'ism 
Posted on Mon, June 14, 2010 at 17:20 pm CEST
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Berlin, the Ayatollahs, and the Bomb

A nuclear bomb in the hands of an Iranian President who denies the Holocaust, threatens Israel and denies Israel the right to exist is not acceptable. Not only Israel but the entire free world is threatened… Continue reading

Topics: Germany • Iran • Shi'ism 
Posted on Wed, June 2, 2010 at 22:18 pm CEST
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Islamic Dress Code: Students Denied Entry to Tehran University

The official in charge of security in Tehran University has announced this week that the university started preventing students who do not abide by the Islamic dress code from entering the campus grounds… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Shi'ism 
Posted on Fri, March 5, 2010 at 21:00 pm CET
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Why the Islamic Republic of Iran has Survived

In the hectic months of 1979—before the Islamic Republic had been officially declared—many Iranians as well as foreigners, confidently predicted its imminent demise… Continue reading

Topics: English • Iran • Shi'ism 
Posted on Sun, December 20, 2009 at 21:38 pm CET
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Iran Hostage Crisis – Letter from Carter to Khomeini

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States (during the Jimmy Carter Administration) where 53 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American embassy. United States President Jimmy Carter wrote a letter to Ayatollah Khomeini asking the release of the American Hostages… Continue reading

Topics: Historical Documents • Iran • United States of America