We will never give up on a Palestine from the river to the sea… It is not enough for Hamas to liberate Gaza… Hamas strives to liberate all of Palestine… Hamas looks toward the whole of Palestine, the liberation of the strip is just a step to liberating all of Palestine… Ahmadinejad said Iran doesn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist… Continue reading
It’s remarkable how easy it is for Middle Eastern dictatorships to fool the West. Iran has been stringing along Europe and the United States for seven years on the pretense that it is ready to make a deal on its nuclear weapons’ drive. The Palestinians persuade the West that they really do want to make peace but just need a better offer. And so on… Continue reading
The article “a Secret C.I.A. History” printed in the New York Times on April 16, 2000 renders a self-lauding, exaggerated, and partial account of the events of 1953… Continue reading
Except for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of its revolution, no leader has left a deeper mark on Iran’s 20th century landscape than Mohammed Mossadegh. And no 20th century event has fueled Iran’s suspicion… Continue reading
On 16 April 2000, the New York Times published a story on what was presented as a “secret report” by a CIA operative concerning the events of August 1953 in Iran. The following article is written in the interest of historical truth and attempts to put those fateful events in Iran into prospect perspective… Continue reading
The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran’s government in 1953 offers an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans. Written in 1954 by one of the coup’s chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran’s elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist… Continue reading
Throughout his political life, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh did his best to maintain a cordial relationship with the religious community in Iran. Though firmly secular, Mossadegh was keenly aware that in the composition of Iranian society, Islam and the Shi’ite faith had deep roots… Continue reading
Iranian authorities warned of crackdowns as they tried to head off possible protests Monday, when the country marks Students Day — the anniversary of the 1953 killing of three university students by security forces. The history of Iranian student political protests began in 1941 with the abdication of Reza Shah and occupation of Iran by the allied forces… Continue reading
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group announced a new political strategy on Monday that tones down Islamist rhetoric but maintains a tough line against Israel and the United States,which it accused of terrorism while vowing to keep its weapons… Continue reading
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas dismissed an Israeli plan to temporarily halt new construction of West Bank settlements as insufficient on Friday, saying Palestinians don’t accept Israel’s tack in trying to restart peace negotiations… Continue reading
Antisemitism in Arab societies and in Iran is the most potent and menacing form of hostility to Jews that exists anywhere in the contemporary world. It has become thoroughly embedded in recent decades (especially since 2000) in the body politic of Islam… Continue reading
Advocating sanctions against ones homeland is as strange as advocating for ones extended family to go without, so there better be a damn good reason(s) for such odd advocacy… Continue reading
Part 3 of a comprehensive study about the lies and myths that fuels the propaganda against Israel… Continue reading
On 11 november 2009 a small group of demonstraters are waiting for the arrival of Israels Minister of foreign affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Amsterdam… Continue reading
Morteza Tala’i, chairman of the Tehran municipality Culture Committee, called upon Iran’s authorities last week to take measures against the phenomenon of writing political slogans on money bills, which has become widespread in recent months… Continue reading
De Iraanse president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sprak op 24 september 2009 tijdens de Algemene Vergadering van de VN. De verwachte Holocaust ontkenning bleef uit, maar zonder het woord ‘jood’ te noemen schetste hij een volledig door antisemitische stereotypen gekleurd wereldbeeld waarin Joden de vijand zijn die de wereld in hun greep houden om moslims kwaad te doen… Continue reading…
Volgens een invloedrijke religieuze Sjiitische leider in Iran is dwang bij ondervraging in de vorm van verkrachting, marteling en drugs toegestaan, zolang het tegenstanders betreft van de Islamitische Republiek. Deze Sjiitische leider, Mesba-Yazdi, is een persoonlijke geestelijk adviseur van President Ahmadinejad van Iran… Continue reading
Full transcript of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN General Assembly 23th september 2009… Continue reading
Full transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly 24th september 2009, in which he responded to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial by holding up documentary evidence, blasted the Goldstone Report and urged the international community to stop Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons:… Continue reading
Anastatica hierochuntica or maybe better known in the common name Rose of Jericho is a monotypic genus. The genus is a member of the family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae), in the division Magnoliophyta of the class Magnoliopsida. The plant is a small gray annual herb that rarely grows above 15 cm high, and bears minute white flowers. It is a tumbleweed and resurrection plant… Continue reading
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