Dec 20,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL According to a recent survey conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, two-thirds of Palestinians surveyed support the wave of knife stabbings of Israelis and view an armed Intifada as “serving the Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations would […]
Source: Reuters A grandson of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini registered on Friday for February’s election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, state broadcaster […]
Source: The New York Times What started as a popular uprising againstthe Syrian government four years ago has becomea proto-world war with nearly a dozen countriesembroiled in two overlapping conflicts. 1. […]
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, right, receives Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders at his office in Tehran in this Nov. 9, 2015 photo. Rouhani is to meet with French President Francois Hollande soon. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP) AGENCIES Published — Thursday 12 November 2015 PARIS: An official lunch between the […]
France won’t dine with Iran unless wine is served Source: Washington Post BERLIN — Guess who’s not coming to dinner — or even breakfast or lunch? Ahead of Iranian President […]
Nov 11,2015 – Last updated at Nov 11,2015 JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good ones” — a less hawkish top American official who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism, but reaches out to […]
By Alexander Smoltczyk Ahead of the planned lifting of Western sanctions against Iran, businessmen from around the world are visiting the country, and as one group from Germany discovered, there […]
dw.com 2015 DW.COM, Deutsche Welle 1 day ago It’s clear where Germany’s foreign minister is going – at least geographically. First up is Tehran, then Riyadh. Far less clear is where the talks of the upcoming days will go politically. Several scenarios are possible – and the general direction will […]
By Michael Tegos Anousheh Ansari is a computer scientist, an entrepreneur, and the first Muslim woman to go to space – not to mention the first woman to do so […]
By Reuters – Oct 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Russian naval landing ship Azov sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain […]
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE REUTERS A man carries a girl in the Douma quarter of Damascus following shelling by regime troops. Iran has long been sending troops and material to help Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad wage war against his own people. But now Tehran is busy establishing a state […]
theguardian: by Ben Child — Slumdog Millionaire composer posts letter insisting that he acted in good faith after Mumbai-based clerics accuse film of mocking Islam ‘My decision to compose the music for this film was made in good faith with no intentions of causing offence’ … AR Rahman. The […]
By Daniel Khazeni-Rad – Sep 1, 2015 A new trend is occurring on Iran’s northern Caspian Sea shores – Iraqis – specifically residents of Baghdad. This uncommon sight to Mazandaran locals and Tehran natives alike has, according to residents of the area, become a growing trend over the past 4 […]
Epigraph: Indeed, the Messenger of God is an excellent model for those of you who put your hope in God and the Last Day and remember Him often. (Al Quran […]
he Shia holy city of Qom teems with mosques, mullahs and madrassas. So, it was a little surprising to hear Qom religious scholar Hossein Soleimani’s response when I asked him […]
NUCLEAR DEAL Switzerland lifts suspended Iran sanctions AUG 12, 2015 – 19:02 Most of the suspended sanctions were related to Iran’s oil industry (Keystone) The Swiss cabinet decided on Wednesday to lift sanctions against Iran that were suspended since January 2014. The move comes after the agreement reached by Iran […]
Aug 11,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH When the Iran nuclear deal was reached a month ago in Vienna, analysts’ accounts went wildly in every possible direction, attaching to it every inconceivable and unthinkable attribution. Predictions went as far as claiming that the two-year-long negotiations had not […]
By BRIAN BENNETT A secret U.S. intelligence assessment predicts that Iran’s government will pump most of an expected $100-billion windfall from the lifting of international sanctions into the country’s flagging economy and won’t significantly boost funding for militant groups it supports in the Middle East. Intelligence analysts concluded that even […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Jul 25,2015 – Last updated at Jul 25,2015 16 0 googleplus0 0 0 AMMAN — After more than eight years of delay, the 10th Jordanian-Iranian economic committee is expected to meet this year to review, update and reactivate several agreements, an Iranian diplomat told The Jordan […]
by Douglas Murray July 25, 2015 at 5:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6218/britain-islam The real question is why, when it comes to the most extreme, anti-Western nation-destroyer of them all — a country committed to the annihilation of a UN member state — Her Majesty’s government would not only permit it to have […]