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Islamist fear drives Israel to support Assad survival | The Times

“Better the devil we know than the demons we can only imagine if Syria falls into chaos and the extremists from across the Arab world gain a foothold there,” one senior Israeli intelligence officer in the north of the country said.   Israel would prefer President Assad to survive his country’s bloody two-year insurgency if the alternative were a ta ... Continue reading »

Two Prisoners Executed For Espionage in Tehran this Morning- At Least 62 Executions in Iran Since April 16 - Iran Human Rights

IHR strongly condemns the execution of Koroush Ahmadi and Mohamad Heydari and holds Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader responsible for these executions. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR urged the international community to condemn executions in Iran. Amiry -Moghaddam said: "Today’s executions are a part of the Iranian regime’s ... Continue reading »

Zionism and the Shah: On the Iranian Elite's Evolving Perceptions of Israel

It is a generally assumed that the Shah’s downfall led to the severing of ties between Israel and Iran, which up until that point resembled a love story. However, both Iran’s intellectual elite and the rest of the nation drastically changed their views of the Jewish State after 1967.     Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his wife, Queen Far ... Continue reading »

BBC News - Iran hangs two men for spying for Israel and US

Iran hangs two men for spying for Israel and US Iran has hanged two men convicted of spying for Israel and the US, the authorities there have said.   Mohammad Heydari was found guilty of passing intelligence on "security issues and national secrets" to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for cash.   Kourosh Ahmadi was convicted of providing intellige ... Continue reading »

Stuxnet worm aided Iranian nuclear program, researcher says - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

  The Iranians are far more intelligent and sophisticated than the West (gives them credit for...). The US and Israel like to think of Iranians as 'a different sort of 'raghead''. Iranians, in cooperation with China andf Russia, can take whatever the West throws at them and turn it around. Western arrogance and hubris won't admit this, but this is ... Continue reading »

Iran: Boycott the vetted election, not the mass protests

On the last available day, ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani arrived at the ministry of the interior to register himself as a presidential candidate. Rafsanjani was the Islamic republic’s fourth president, from 1989 to 1997, and is now once again standing as a ‘reformist’. In reality he is the candidate of capitalism and probably still one of the riches ... Continue reading »

Interview with Rashid Khalidi: “Brokers of Deceit”

 “There is no such thing as the Palestinian people.”     - Golda Meir     Rashid Ismail Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.     The editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, Khalidi is also the author of a nu ... Continue reading »

A Geopolitical Shift In The Persian Gulf

It did not make major headlines and unless you listened carefully to NPR you would NOT have even know it happened ….but…this past week the Saudi Arabian Minister for Oil visited Washington DC and delivered an important speech. And in his speech he confirmed a reality about the Persian Gulf that no one until today has acknowledged. And that is, that ... Continue reading »

U.N. watchdog, EU's Ashton to press Iran in nuclear dispute| Reuters

VIENNA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iran faces international pressure over its nuclear program in two separate meetings on Wednesday, but no breakthrough is expected at a time when the Islamic state is focused on next month's presidential election.   In Vienna, the U.N. nuclear agency will once again urge Iran to stop stonewalling its inquiry into suspecte ... Continue reading »

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