UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists has been detained for nearly two months and is in solitary confinement at Evin Prison, a facility rights advocates have criticized for prisoner abuse, sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
Bagher Asadi, who was previously a senior diplomat at Iran's U.N. mission in New Y ... Continue reading »
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticized for taking 'ghost money' from the CIA and MI6. The sums are unknown for the usual reasons of 'national security' which is the reason given to disingenuously cover up a criminal policy and criminal actions.
The West has no sincere interest in helping societys evolve more towards democrati ... Continue reading »
Book burning has a long and fanatical history, the recent ones belong to the Nazi regime in 1933 and the Islamic regime of Iran short after the 1979 revolution. “Bücherverbrennung”, book burning, of Nazis on 10 May 1933 remains a shame in the history of Germany. The so-called "degenerate" books were burnt in Nazi-Germany. The “Säuberung”, cleansi ... Continue reading »
A response to F. Leverett and H. M. Leverett’s Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Metropolitan Books, 2013. By Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s former president and Mahmood Delkhasteh Recently, the authors of Going to Tehran argued that “the United States will have to pursue rapprochement wit ... Continue reading »
How would you describe Iran’s current geopolitical status in the region?
I think there are three competing paradigms for power and influence in today’s Middle East: resistance Islam (led by Iran), sectarian/Sunni Islam (led by Saudi Arabia), and modern Islam (led by Turkey). Iran’s paradigm resonates most when popular anger and frustration in the ... Continue reading »
Iran has dismissed reports that Israel’s attack in Syria early yesterday targeted advanced Iranian-made missiles on their way to Hezbollah in Lebanon, calling them “psychological operations” aimed at undermining the Iran-led Axis of Resistance.
By inserting itself into the furor following the attack, Iran highlights how Syria's local civil war ... Continue reading »
(Daniel Pipes hoped to destroy the National Iranian American Council. His plan backfired: AP) The war over war with Iran has many battlefronts. Inside Washington, the battle line is between a small coalition of peace and security, non-proliferation and religious groups opposing war and favoring a peaceful solution to the stand off with Iran, and ... Continue reading »
Is America at war with Islam? The question began to be asked when the first evidence emerged of the transfer of hundreds of innocent Muslims to Guantanamo and the despotic new order that permitted indefinite detention of suspects. The investigations in Iraq led by David Kay and Charles Duelfer established that our war against weapons of mass destru ... Continue reading »
One of President Obama’s greatest “accomplishments” has been creating fissures within the antiwar/progressive community in the United States by talking like a progressive politician, but acting in most cases as a conservative one. Consider, for example, his domestic policy. It has helped Wall Street far more than anything the President is willing t ... Continue reading »
Why do we Muslims demand that American people accommodate, even embrace, every odd thing we do under the umbrella of religion? We seem to have a mental predisposition to become obsessed with our religious rites, which sometimes has an almost pathological influence over us and others. Some of us Muslims in the U.S. seem to have only two things to ... Continue reading »
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