Source: Asia Times: By Farideh Farhi HAWAII – As the Iranian leadership prepares to engage in negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) over the fate of its nuclear program, the conversation inside Iran has moved beyond the nuclear issue, and now includes […]
Ahmadinejad: Islamic Awakening Belongs to All Human Beings TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that since the religion of Islam is a divine gift to all human beings, the Islamic Awakening movement, which sparked democracy movements in the middle-East and North Africa last week, also belongs to […]
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it has launched a video-sharing website in the latest move to create government-sanctioned alternatives to Internet powerhouses such as YouTube. The Web page of Iranian state TV says the new site – Mehr, or affection in Farsi – seeks to promote Iranian and Islamic culture […]
TEHRAN: Iran’s border patrol police said it seized more than 11 tonnes of drugs, killing one smuggler, in the “biggest” bust since the 1979 Islamic revolution, media reported on Sunday. […]
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
Source: Asia Times: By Kaveh L Afrasiabi NEW YORK – If there is anyone in Damascus contemplating the use of chemical weapons as a means of political survival he is utterly mistaken. Saddam Hussein tried that with the Kurds and look where he ended up – in the dustbin of […]
Tehran has claimed it captured a US spy drone in the Persian Gulf after the unmanned aircraft entered Iranian airspace, Iran’s Press TV reported. The drone was identified as a […]
Source: The Local: The German Foreign Ministry has called for banks to allow transfers to Iranian accounts for humanitarian purposes, which are not banned by EU sanctions, it was reported on Sunday. More:
REUTERS ARABNEWS Saturday 1 December 2012 DUBAI: The head of Tehran’s cyber police unit has been dismissed over the death in custody of an Iranian blogger, police said yesterday. Sattar Beheshti, a little-known 35-year-old blogger who was critical of the government, was arrested on Oct. 30 after receiving death threats, […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has vowed to complete the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project by 2014 despite United States opposition. Ahmadinejad, who attended the summit of the Developing-8 (D-8) countries held in Islamabad last week, told a press conference in Islamabad that […]
By Agha Shahid Ali W. W. Norton & Company Copyright © 2002 Agha Shahid Ali. All rights reserved. ISBN: 0-393-04149-2 Chapter One From Amherst to Kashmir 1. Karbala: A History of the “House of Sorrow” In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Husayn will […]
Source: ANTARA News Islamabad – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here on Thursday that he and other leaders of the Group of Eight Developing (D8) countries agreed that violence and […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — The conflict that ended, for now, in a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel seemed like the latest episode in a periodic showdown. But there was a second, strategic agenda unfolding, […]
BEIRUT: A group of extremist Islamist factions in Syria has rejected the country’s new opposition coalition, saying in a video statement they have formed an “Islamic state” in the embattled city of Aleppo to underline that they want nothing to do with the Western-backed bloc. The video appears to be […]
Source: Stratfor: To begin to make sense of the escalating conflict in Gaza, we need to go back to the night of Oct. 23 in Khartoum. Around 11 p.m. that night, the Yarmouk weapons facility in the Sudanese capital was attacked, presumably by the Israeli air force. There were indications […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar So many wars to launch, so little time. When you’re the political leader of the most militarized nation on the planet – as is the case with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu – you gotta find ways to play with your toys. More:
The Jerusalem Post: Both Iran and Israel have never been so aware as they are today of the positive and beneficial consequences of a close relationship and historic friendship. Iran […]
Source: NY Times: WASHINGTON — Iranian warplanes shot at an American military surveillance drone flying over the Persian Gulf near Iran last week, Pentagon officials disclosed Thursday. They said that the aircraft, a Predator drone, was flying in international airspace and was not hit and that the episode had prompted […]
Source: Asiatimes: Saudi Arabia’s support for Afghanistan has been steady but inconspicuous over the years. But that is about to change. The powerful Sunni-majority kingdom is embarking on a very public effort to carve out a bigger role in Afghanistan, pitting the oil-rich Gulf state directly against Shi’ite rival Iran […]
Source: Asia times: WASHINGTON – A new twist was added to the long-running media theme of a threat by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go to war with Iran when news stories seemed to suggest that Netanyahu had ordered the Israeli military to prepare for an imminent attack on […]