New Egypt-based Islamic TV channel caters to fully veiled women Washington Post Conservative Islam and its most visible hallmark, the niqab, appear to be on the rise on Egypt’s cultural scene as well, and the launch of Maria TV is an attempt to cater to that growing segment of society. A decade ago, the […]
Top Sunni mufti and head of Sunni scholars in France Sheikh Sankoh Muhammadi has embraced Shia Islam after a visit to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq. It is […]
By Maryam Vahedi Source: GroundReport After centuries, if not millennia, filled with dark histories of religious tensions between Muslims and Jews one may be considered delusional for suggesting that Muslims and Jews can live together peacefully in the Middle East. Many statesmen and community leaders have tried in vain to […]
From the Islamic Revolution to the Islamic Devolution Jerusalem Post Being one of the fastest-growing countries in terms of leaving Islam, hundreds upon hundreds of Iranian Muslims are secretly converting to Christianity, or are becoming atheists, due to the arrogance and brutality of the Islamic regime in Iran. A few months … See all stories on this topic […]
Events are racing forward, events real reporting might stop. Instead, the world’s news media spews fiction, press releases and hate mongering. If history is repeating itself, as it so often has, we are watching a plan take shape, one devised in Tel Aviv, making use of “assets” around the world, […]
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel signaled on Thursday it would not rush into any open conflict with Iran or its Lebanese guerrilla ally Hezbollah despite blaming them for a deadly attack on its citizens in Bulgaria. A suicide bomber killed eight people on a bus carrying Israeli tourists […]
Credit: Asiatime. A minor incident in the Persian Gulf this week that saw a US Navy fuel ship open fire on an Indian fishing boat demonstrates how overcrowding by US warships and aircraft to intimidate Iran’s nuclear ambitions raises the likelihood of a spark that ignites full-scale war. Tehran, having […]
By David Ignatius The Daily Star Hopefully we won’t see a Middle East replay of the “The Guns of August,” as Barbara Tuchman titled her famous account of the slide toward World War I. But the region is edgy this summer as negotiators struggle to resolve confrontations with Syria and […]
Russian TV: With sanctions against Iran gradually showing their ineffectiveness, Washington is escalating the situation in the Persian Gulf, as if encouraging Tehran to attack first, a US politics professor […]
Image Courtesy: Guardian.co.uk Editors note: There is no such thing as ‘Female Ninja’ rather the correct term will be Kunoichi for a female ninja or practitioner of Ninjutsu. See more […]
AFP | Jan 18, 2012 | 23:13 JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — Saudi Arabia will use “all available options” to defend itself against Iranian “threats” that might trigger “unwanted military confrontation”, its former intelligence chief told a Gulf security conference. Prince Turki Al Faisal’s comments to the conference in Bahrain late […]
WASHINGTON: A U.S. federal judge has ordered Iran to pay more than $813 million in damages and interest to the families of 241 U.S. soldiers killed in the 1983 bombing […]
Switzerland will continue to purchase Iranian oil in defiance of the European Union sanctions on the Islamic Republic that came into effect on July 1. The Swiss Federal Department of […]
The government has decided to tighten economic sanctions against Tehran, but stopped short of implementing a ban on trading Iranian oil to match an embargo by the European Union or […]
Source: FNA TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary-General of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council Dr. Saeed Sarkar expressed pleasure with the two-year activities of the Tech-to-Market Services Corridor (a subsidiary of the INIC), and announced the INIC’s preparedness to provide other technologies with promotion services. “We are prepared to offer such services to other […]
Russian TV: The US and Israel made the Stuxnet virus as a new kind of weapon targeted against Iran, a media investigation revealed. The operation reportedly started in the Bush […]
Source: PressTV A Syrian government investigation into the massacre that recently killed more than 100 people in the western Syria village of Houla has blamed anti-Damascus armed groups for the killings. The head of the inquiry, Brigadier General Qassem Jamal Suleiman said during a news conference in the Syrian capital […]
Monday 28 May 2012 ARABNEWS FUJAIRAH: A pipeline being built by the United Arab Emirates to pump most of its oil exports from east coast terminals bypassing the Iran-threatened Strait […]
Cnbc.com: A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus that was […]
Credit: Asiatimes: By Pepe Escobar Pentagon head Leon Panetta told ABC News that the US is “ready” to attack Iran. It depends on US President Barack Obama giving it a go. Will he or won’t he? Nobel Prize winner and Drone Godfather Obama has been busy “justifying the ‘just war’ […]