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Iranian Envoy: Israel-PA Direct Talks Doomed to Failure

The new round of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will fail to produce any positive results for the oppressed Palestinian people. The real representatives of the Palestinian people (i.e. Iran’s proxy Hamas) had serious qualms about these negotiations… Continue reading

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Diplomatic Incident Between Iran and Turkey on “Slaughter of Armenians”

A vice president’s mention of the slaughter of the Armenian people in World War I has sparked a diplomatic incident between Iran and Turkey this week. Speaking at a conference titled… Continue reading

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Conservative Camp Steps Up Criticism of Ahmadinejad

Criticism of President Ahmadinejad by the conservative camp has reached new peaks this week. In an extended interview granted by conservative Majles member Ali Motahari to Soroush, a weekly affiliated with Iran Broadcasting, he claimed that… Continue reading

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Iran begins fueling first nuclear reactor

After years of delays, the fueling of the Bushehr plant in southern Iran marks the startup of a facility for energy production that the U.S. once hoped to block as a way… Continue reading

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Ahmadinejad’s Iran and Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad infuriated Americans last week when he claimed that America had exaggerated the death toll from al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attacks… Continue reading

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How Would a Nuclear Iran Behave?

President Obama says Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons is “unacceptable,” but he appears resigned to the eventuality that the Islamic Republic will build a bomb. Iranian leaders are defiant in the face of sanctions… Continue reading

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Poll Shows the Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion

As long as there is a huge gap between the actual Middle East and the fantasy Middle East so dear to many Western academics, journalists, and diplomats, the region will remain… Continue reading

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Increasing Concern Over Impact of Escalating Sanctions Against Iran

The European Union’s decision last week to approve a new package of severe sanctions against Iran’s commerce, finance, energy, and transportation sectors has… Continue reading

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Ahmadinejad Survives Assassination Attempt

A conservative Iranian website said a handmade grenade exploded Wednesday near President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s convoy in an apparent assassination attempt… Continue reading

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Iran Threatens World

You would think the kind of genocidal behavior displayed by the Ahmadinejad government in Tehran would be in violation of international law… Continue reading

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Iran’s Opposition Leaders Step Up Criticism of Government Policy

Mehdi Karoubi, one of the leaders of the reformist opposition, has strongly criticized last week the government’s stance on the nuclear crisis… Continue reading

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Iran Specified Conditions for Resuming Nuclear Talks With the West

During a press conference held this week by the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad specified Iran’s conditions for resuming the nuclear talks with the West… Continue reading

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An Open Letter to Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“You have accomplished in eight years what no other contemporary Turkish politician could achieve. You have successfully entered the final stages in your efforts to transform Atatürk’s Turkey into an Arab-style Islamist dictatorship… Continue reading

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Ahmadinejad Against Enforcement of Islamic Dress Code

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was strongly criticized by the conservative camp this week for comments made early last week against enforcing the Islamic dress code on women. In a television interview he… Continue reading

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Scenarios for an Israeli attack in Iran

A war between the two countries would result in widespread destruction in Iran; however, such a war would spell the end of Israel. Unlike the Israelis, who would… Continue reading

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Berlin, the Ayatollahs, and the Bomb

A nuclear bomb in the hands of an Iranian President who denies the Holocaust, threatens Israel and denies Israel the right to exist is not acceptable. Not only Israel but the entire free world is threatened… Continue reading

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The Ship Intifada continues: Arab and Islamic countries and international organizations send more Gaza-bound flotillas

The aim of the flotillas is not just bringing aid to the Gaza Strip, but first and foremost to tarnish and embarrass Israel on the international scene, exerting international diplomatic pressure on it to lift the “siege” on the Gaza Strip. Most probably… Continue reading

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Iran’s Gaza-bound ships ready for clash with Israel

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured Turkish leaders that the vessels due to enter the disputed waters within days will not shrink from a head-on clash with Israel’s Navy and Air Force exclusion forces… Continue reading

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The Gaza Flotilla is a Step Towards the Destruction of Israel

Unlike pirate operations off the coast of Somalia, carried out by one terrorist group, the daily claimed that the “Zionist regime” took over the flotilla in an act of government-sponsored piracy. That crime supports the Palestinian cause and brings the “Zionist regime” one step closer to its destruction… Continue reading

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Turkey and Israel on the Brink of War or New “Ship Intifada”?

Against the US president Barack Obama’s bid to bridge the rift, Turkish generals are drawing up plans to break Israel’s Gaza blockade and avenge 9 deaths, while Israel is bound by its war on terror to… Continue reading

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The Ship Intifada: an Overview

During the night of May 31 IDF forces took control of the aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip. Five ships were taken without exceptional incident. On the sixth ship, the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara, the IDF soldiers met with violent resistance… Continue reading

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Diverse and Contrasting Reactions about Iran’s Nuclear Agreement

The agreement signed this week, under which Iran is to transfer 1200 kg of low-enriched uranium in exchange for nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor, has provoked diverse and contrasting reactions among Iran’s… Continue reading

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The Obama Administration’s Middle East Disaster

Here are nine huge problems going on right now that are not being addressed by the U.S. government and are barely comprehended by the U.S. debate and large portions of the mass media… Continue reading

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Hamas marks 22nd anniversary with pledge to Liberate whole of Palestine

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