Obama and the new Cold War in the Middle East
The stand off between Iran and Saudi Arabia represents a new kind of Cold War between Sunni and Shia Islam. It's dangerous anyway, but lack of leadership from Obama is making things much worse
- 12 January 2016
Mehdi Hasan's Iran Death to America whitewash
Leftist pundit Mehdi Hasan has produced a garbled whitewash of Iran's Death to America agenda. But the truth is that the anti-American agenda is based on historical falsifications that many Westerners have simply internalised, as Potkin Azarmehr explains in this fascinating expose
- 9 July 2015
How Iran exploits fear of its own "hardliners"
Iran always raises the spectre of "hardliners" to frighten ordinary Iranians into compliance with fake "moderates". It does much the same with the outside world which, at least in the person of Barack Obama, appears gullible enough to fall for the ruse. Don't be fooled. The Communists tried this too
- 11 March 2015
We must remain on guard: Iran is a real threat
The West never really got to grips with the Iranian nuclear programme. But Barack Obama is no longer just guilty of a lack of leadership on the matter, he is actively leading the world in the wrong direction. Danger looms, and we must confront it
- 31 January 2015
Exposing the UN's dirty little secrets
A gathering of the tortured in Geneva shames the UN Human Rights Council by giving victims not perpetrators a platform to tell their story
- 24 February 2013
What could Iran's leadership learn from the Pope?
On the 34th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's leadership was keen to stress that it is more united than ever
- 13 February 2013
New report: Iranian Christians denied basic rights
A new report has documented evidence of the persecution of Christians in Iran, including threats against life, as well as actual death sentences and imprisonment
- 21 January 2013
Drug offences account for 80 percent of executions in Iran
Despite a declining political will by a growing number of South-East Asian governments to enforce their capital drug laws, death sentences have tripled in Pakistan and executions are on the rise in Iran and Saudi Arabia
- 20 November 2012
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