The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1701 in August 2006, which brought about an end to the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The resolution called on the Lebanese government to “secure its borders and other entry points to prevent the entry in Lebanon without its consent of arms or related materiel” and authoriz ... Continue reading »
Election Watch: Hardline Kayhan Criticizes Rafsanjani
In a lengthy editorial on Monday, Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of hardline newspaper Kayhan, which is close to the Supreme Leader, criticized the decision of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani to register his candidacy, asking what the point of doing so had been, and suggesting that it could ... Continue reading »
In 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, at the urging of the British M16, overthrew democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. In a declassified report completed in 1954 on the 1953 operation, the term "blowback" for the first time entered the CIA’s lexicon.
At the time, analysts were concerned that the U.S. governme ... Continue reading »
Although the regime denies it, rebels have captured Abil village near Homs and provided videos to prove it. http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/syria-homs-videos-of-the-rebel-capture-of/ Abil’s location between Homs and Al Quysar is a strategic one and threatens the regime’s efforts in the latter town. In Homs itself, rebels reportedly ... Continue reading »
DUBAI: Women in Iran are becoming more angry and are beginning to show their frustration through underground campaigns aimed at ending what activist Samira Mekhani told Bikyanews.com is “the bigotry of a male-dominated society.” For her and other women in Iran, fighting daily to change the use of language and “stupidity” is a never-ending affair.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's best known political grandee, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, looms large in the history of the Islamic Republic - now registered to run in Iran's presidential election next month he may also get the chance to carve out its future.
Few have wielded such influence in modern Iran as the 78-year-old but since 2009 h ... Continue reading »
TEL AVIV -- Amid a heated war of words between Israel and Iran over the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions, one musician is hoping that an unconventional weapon will help cool the tensions.
Iranian-born Israeli Menashe Sasson, 67, broadcasts traditional Persian melodies for an audience in his old home country from a studio in Israel. He hears a n ... Continue reading »
The notion that U.S. sanctions on Iran are supposed to act as diplomatic leverage to get a nuclear deal may be dispelled once and for all by a new Congressional action now in the works.
The House is poised to move ahead with a new round of Iran sanctions, and a slew of new sanctions proposals are set to be introduced in the Senate, even as a host ... Continue reading »
All eyes are on what it will take to prevent Iran from getting its hands on a nuclear weapon. If sanctions and diplomacy prove incapable of containing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions—and soon—a military strike to destroy or at the very least delay its program is seen as the least bad option available. Iran gaining a nuclear-weapons capability is a red l ... Continue reading »
Mansur Osanlu in a courtesy photo provided by the International Transport Workers' Federation. Prominent Iranian union leader Mansur Osanlu, who recently fled that country, has told RFE/RL that death threats from inside government security circles drove him out of Iran. Osanlu, who is described by some as “Iran’s Lech Walesa” after the labor lea ... Continue reading »
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