The difference between Saudi Arabia and Iran cannot be more striking. Evidently, Riyadh has avoided interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, used its resources for the well being of its citizens, and constructively contributed to regional stability. In offering financial aid to other countries, Riyadh is, by and large, driven […]
Omid Safi, Huffington Post A few days ago I stood with a few thousand people, huddled inside Rumi’s shrine, celebrating the 738th anniversary of his passing on to the Beyond. […]
Former German lawmaker Norman Paech says any Israeli venture to launch a military strike against Iran would spell the end of Tel Aviv regime. A war with Iran would be […]
Source: Asiatimes on Line By Pepe Escobar Bets are off on which is the great story of 2011. Is it the Arab Spring(s)? Is it the Arab counter-revolution, unleashed by the House of Saud? Is it the “birth pangs” of the Greater Middle East remixed as serial regime changes? Is […]
Source: Asiatimes. By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON – United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the US troop presence in Iraq was part of a US military success story ignores the fact that the George W Bush administration and the US military had planned to maintain a […]
By Antoine Ghattas Saab The Daily Star, Lebanon The Vatican is engaged in an attempt to resolve the nine-month-old crisis in Syria, while the United States is preparing to strike […]
By ALI BLUWI | ARAB NEWS Youssef Makki, a Saudi political analyst and secretary-general of the Center for Arab Unity Studies claimed that Arab states should collectively isolate Iran by reinforcing their own national unity. “Iran has done what it takes to terminate the Shiite reference of Najaf, to dominate […]
Note by the editor: This is good News. Iran and Saudi Arabia should settle their mutual differences and worries through brotherly consultations.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN: Iran claims its experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the US surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces. Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, from […]
Between its nuclear program and its general sabre rattling foreign policy, Iran’s position with the U.S., and the world, is easy to take for outright aggression. With that in mind, it’s interesting to look at the world as Iran sees it from inside its borders. This map from Democratic Underground puts a […]
By Brian Murphy JORDAN TIMES DUBAI – About 18 months before the Egyptian uprising that would doom Hosni Mubarak, a US diplomatic cable was sent from Cairo. It described Mubarak as the likely president-for-life and said his regime’s ability to intimidate critics and rig elections was as solid as ever. […]
The former Saudi intelligence agency chief has announced that Riyadh may obtain nuclear weapons in line with plans to join “a nuclear arms race.” Prince Turki al-Faisal, who was addressing […]
Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad behave like mutant clones when it comes to their international brinkmanship and their uncanny knack of furthering their peoples’ international isolation. By Khaled Diab Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad […]
BEIRUT: The collapse of the 40-year-old Assad regime in Syria would radically change the politics of the Middle East, reducing the influence of Iran and its Islamist proxy Hezbollah in […]
By Khetam Malkawi JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – Two-thirds of Jordanians believe that satellite TV channels had a role in driving recent protests and revolutions in the Arab world, a newly released survey showed. The poll, “How the public evaluates media coverage of the Arab revolutions” surveyed 1,933 participants from across […]
The more known: Source: Wikipedia. Muharram (Arabic: المحرّم) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited.[1] Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, Muharram moves from year to year when compared with the […]
Source :Asiatimes on line. By – Mahan Abedin Iran’s claim last week to have arrested 12 spies from the Central Intelligence Agency has been grudgingly confirmed by United States officials, suggesting a major CIA defeat if not a full-blown disaster. ATol sources in Tehran confirm the embarrassing outcome is the […]
Source: Asiatimes on line M K Bhadrakumar As the US gathers its flock, including its most reliable sycophant Britain, to move against the Iranian sphere via regime change in Syria, Tehran has taken the gloves off. The downgrading of ties with London moved with such speed that it is obvious […]
President Obama calls the occupation of the British Embassy in Teheran as a ‘totally unacceptable behavior’. I agree. But let us look at other ‘totally unacceptable behavior’ versus ‘absolutely acceptable behavior’: ‘Unacceptable’: Entering a diplomatic mission in protest. ‘Acceptable’: Embargo including cutting banking and airline relations, where first of all […]
Source: CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran Tuesday, breaking down the door, throwing around papers and replacing the British flag with an Iranian one. Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that police had the incident under control, but Britain’s Foreign Office called the situation […]