Iran - one of the mosts racist nations!! Before we dive into the data, a couple of caveats. First, it’s entirely likely that some people lied when answering this question; it would be surprising if they hadn’t. But the operative question, unanswerable, is whether people in certain countries were more or less likely to answer the question honestly. ... Continue reading »
The cycle of sexual violence that has been churning throughout the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has refused to stop, despite all the steps the United Nations has taken over decades to end the epidemic. Just last fall, systematic rapes, committed by the Congolese Army, occurred in an area around Minova, a new report, released ... Continue reading »
Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian-born Israeli Middle East expert. He lived in Iran until eight years after the revolution. He was educated in British universities and now lives in Israel. Asia Times called him “one of the best informed observers” of the Middle East.
Mr. Javedanfar is the publisher and editor of the website Iran–Israel Observer. Prev ... Continue reading »
In the podcast, Hosseini speaks for those living in Iran whose voices are silenced by the Iranian authorities’ fierce crackdown on free expression. Hosseini’s weekly podcasts tie together common-sense issues that ordinary Iranians might discuss in informal gatherings with reviews of the prior week’s news, pinpointing hypocrisy, corruption, injustic ... Continue reading »
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 »
یک نکته جالب وزیر مهاجرت کانادا جیسون کنی به کنفرانس دو روزه اپوزیسیون سازی تحت عنوان گفت و گوی جهانی دعوت نشده بود. سعید سلطانپور مهمان برنامه ویندوز- سوالات بدون پاسخ پیرامون کنفرانس دوروزه گفت وگوی جهانی برای آینده ایران - شهرام شهرامیان - تلویزیون تن - یکشنبه 12 ماه مه 2013- یک نکته جالب وزیر مهاجرت کانادا جیسون کنی به کنفرانس دو روزه اپوزی ... 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 »
In 1990, Saddam Hussein did not understand that the world had changed with the fall of the Wall. He thought that the USSR would protect him from America after the invasion of Kuwait, and paid dearly his mistake. Abandoned by the Soviets, Iraq had to bear the cost, first of a war lost, and second of international sanctions, on a scale and harshness ... Continue reading »
After the article Hassan Dai's Unkept Promises was posted on Iranian.com, I discovered something shocking--Hassan Dai's biggest supporters seemed unaware that he ran a lobbying group. With Dai's frequent postings online and telivision appearances on Pars TV, this seemed odd. Not only has Hassan Dai refused to answer questions about himself, but his ... Continue reading »
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