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May
(in chronological order, most recent articles on top)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008A Grand Ayatollah And An Influencital Journalist Takes The Defence of Baha's Barely one week after the Shi’a Muslim’s highest religious authority and one of Iran’s most courageous journalist and commentator demanded for the first time that Iranian Baha’is “should have equal civilian rights as all other citizens of the land”, fundamentalist and radical Shi’a circles staunchly opposed to the Baha’is started a vigorous campaign of denunciations and calumnies against the members of the faith that is forbidden by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By Safa Haeri.
Can Iran become a gendarme from a bandit?Monday, May 26, 2008 The exhibition of force of Hezbolah in Beirut confirms Iran the rank of regional power. National interest, as much or more than the Islamist ideology, guides its action. And the clumsy policy of Bush plays in its favor. By Javier Valenzuela.
A Syrian-Israel Peace Is Hardest Blow to IranFriday, May 23, 2008 The confirmation by both Israel and Syria that they are talking to each other directly on the possibilities of signing a peace treaty thanks to mediation of Turkey has several corollaries, which are the conditions of each side for such an event, but for sure, it wold be the hardest blow to the Islamic Republic of Iran in decades. By Safa Haeri.
Book BurningMonday, May 19, 2008 "We recall in this days with shame that 75 years ago - not just here in Berlin, but in all of Germany – people, in tens of thousands, applauded and cheered as the books of Erich Koestler, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Kurt Tucholsky and many others were thrown into the fire by the Nazis", said the German President, Horst Koehler, in a speech at Berlin's Academy of Arts, on the occasion of (Bücherverbrennung) “book burning” of the Nazi regime. By Jahanshah Rashidian.
The Neocon Roots of Iranian-Israeli ExtremismSaturday, May 17, 2008 What do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel have in common? One thing is for certain: they are both true reflections of the neoconservative rise in US foreign policy, which itself was a result of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, which razed the Twin Towers in New York and parts of the Pentagon. By Jalal Alavi.
Dangerous GamesThursday, May 15, 2008 Iranians are known to be among the world’s most extremist peoples, if not physically, but certainly verbally, making them no body’s real friends, but sometimes real enemies. By Safa Haeri.
The Disease That Kills All dictatorial RegimesFriday, May 9, 2008 In a speech on 4 May in the small southern city of Kazeroun, Fars Province, where he was on a visit, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i, the megalomaniac leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran warned “anybody who try to divide the people from the Government and drum on differences, he is acting against the interests of the regime and the nation”, touching on the very disease that destroy all dictatorial regimes. By Safa Haeri.
Mohammad Khatami Attacked By Hard Line LawmakersTuesday, May 6, 2008 In un unprecedented move, 77 lawmakers, all of them belonging to the radical majority of the Majles, have introduced a petition against Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Khatami, accused of slander and calumnies against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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