Iran and Islamic State – More Similar Than Catches the Eye
The horrors of the brutal “caliphate” of the Islamic State – from its slave market to the numerous terrorist attacks it has perpetrated – are documented all over the media, as is its hypocrisy. Iran...
View ArticleOn The High Seas, ‘Moderate’ Iran as Hostile as Ever
As if we needed further confirmation that Iran hasn’t changed, even after the implementation of the nuclear deal with the P5+1, the media supplied it this week – with a volley of reports on the latest...
View ArticleIran: Hawkish in Action, Dovish in the Press
The Iranian rhetoric and actions do not match the image. Iranian leaders often make highly aggressive and belligerent statements, usually containing threats that sound far more hostile than the...
View ArticleWhile The West talks, Iran Shoots
The Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, set to expire on December 31, was raised for debate this week. While Democratic and Republican Senators called the renewing of the law “crucial” because “it remains a...
View ArticleThe Tide of War is Rising, and Rough Seas Ahead with Iran – Calls for a More...
The call for a more robust and proactive approach towards Iran is being voiced loud and clear. The main question is can the politicians admit their mistakes and harken to this call? When the nuclear...
View ArticleIran Against Intervention in Internal Affairs of Other countries
As reported on Iranian PressTV, the President of Iran Rouhani recently preached against “Foreign Intervention” in the internal affairs of other countries. He stressed that this warning is based on...
View ArticleIran posing the biggest defense and foreign policy challenge to Trump
Let’s take a re-cap of Iranian defiance against the USA in the past week. This will not be the first time Iran threatens the USA arrogantly, but the incidents of the past week are the first reported...
View ArticleNew Winds and Sea Change – New Trends on the Threats Posed by Iran
As reported in reuters, in an interview to the German newspaper “Handelsblatt”, CEO of Bilfinger, Thomas Blades, postulated: “Financing is the main hurdle facing companies looking at doing business in...
View Article“Risky Bets” vs “Face the Threats”– The dispute over future American Policy...
The recent period has seen a flood of media op-eds and opinion articles regarding the recommended future American policy on the Iranian nuclear deal and Iranian threat. The washingtonpost op-ed fights,...
View ArticleIranian Nuclear Ships – Bluff or Threat?
Angered by the US Congress decision to renew the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), President Rouhani ordered Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization to plan and design the production of nuclear fuel and reactors for...
View ArticleThe Carnage in Aleppo – Deliberate Concealment of Iran’s Major Role in the...
The collapse of the rebel forces in Aleppo came at a very heavy price. Anyone exposed to the visuals of Aleppo “before and after” (see also gulfnews) witnessed the wide spread devastation and atrocity....
View ArticleIranian entrenchment in Syria may trigger regional war
Iranian entrenchment in Syria is becoming a global issue. It has been raised before security decision makers in Washington and in Moscow. It is now assumed that the increased Iranian presence in Syria...
View ArticleIranian infiltration in the US
Several reports have dwelled on Iranian backed infiltration into the US. Some of the reports deal with soft-power quiet infiltration in the academic field. Others deal with the hard-core recruitment of...
View ArticleTurkey joins Iran in the shift from diplomacy to military force
Turkey and Iran have become buddies again. The increased visits and coordination between Iran and Turkey indicate a common fear, derived from the phenomena of the Kurdish referendum. Turkish president...
View ArticleIRGC on the table
In the follow up of president Trump’s speech on the new Iranian strategy, in which he targeted the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), many media outlets and think-tanks have focused on the IRGC,...
View ArticleWhy is the media deaf to Iranian threats?
If you had just landed on planet Earth this week, you might easily have been fooled into thinking that Iran were being bullied and victimized. Such has been the hysteria in large portions of the global...
View ArticleSanctions are back. But that isn’t the big story
Let’s not beat about the bush. Renewed US sanctions on Iran have gone into effect and it’s justifiably a big story. For a start, it shows that Washington is willing to make good on its criticism of...
View ArticleIran’s answer to sanctions – Set up a kangaroo court
It appears that the renewed US sanctions on Iran are beginning to bite. The European signatories to the JCPOA nuclear deal – the so-called E3 (UK, France and Germany) – have attempted to soften the...
View ArticleIranians feel the sanctions pinch – Their leaders spend on the military
Media attention is beginning to recede from the diplomatic ins and outs of the United States’ decision to reinstate sanctions on Iran. Iranian threats and political differences between Washington and...
View ArticleThe Kurds are becoming the Tehran regime’s scapegoat
There has been one explosion in Iran grabbing international headlines recently. The attack on a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz which killed 25 people has understandably filled column...
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