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France24 (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
An aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that if the Islamic republic is attacked, it will retaliate against the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv, official media reported on Sunday. "If the enemy attacks Iran, our missiles will strike Tel Aviv," the official IRNA news agency quoted Khamenei's representative in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mojhtaba Zolnoor, as saying...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Separating Iran-US talks from the nuclear issue would drive engagement on other key topics such as Iraq or Afghanistan As Iran continues to play hide and seek in its response to a nuclear deal supposedly agreed in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency demands more clarity on Iran's nuclear plans. The IAEA said in its report that it was still not sure if "there were any other facilities...
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Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In demonstrations at Shiraz University, in southwestern Iran, on November 4, the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, students called "Die Mojtaba [son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei], Don't Get Leadership," ... November 18, 2009, 2:34 pm
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David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Morning Star is not always right, but it certainly is this time : If you've been taking the US and Britain's recent pronouncements on Iran seriously, you're probably just about ready to stock up on canned food and start digging a fallout shelter in your back garden. Secret underground nuclear facilities? Breaches of non-proliferation rules? Dark hints of military action to stop the mad mullahs...
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MSNBC.com: Newsweek World News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The clerical establishment has become so sick of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that they will not replace him when he dies.
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Martin Fletcher RAMIN Pourandarjani was a brilliant medical student with a promising future, until he was found dead in a dormitory at Tehran police headquarters last week. He is now the new cause celebre of the Iranian Opposition, with MPs and Western organisations demanding an investigation into the death of a man who knew too much. The official cause of death for the physician is heart attack but...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
As Ayatollah Khamenei sidles up to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he could learn from Turkey's leader about balancing his alliances The famous Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu, wrote in his book, The Art of War : "If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak." Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah...
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Phi Beta Cons (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Extraordinary : An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face. On Oct. 28, Mahmoud Vahidnia, a gold medalist at the country's National Math Olympics two years ago, confronted supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at Tehran's Sharif Technical University. "I don't know why in this country it's not...
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Istanbul Calling (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Via the World Politics Review blog , comes an interesting post from the blog Arms Control Wonk that dissects the recent talk about the possibility of a deal to send Iran's enriched uranium to Turkey . The basic idea would be to send the uranium to Turkey in a kind of "escrow" account, to be held until Iran receives its shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia. The option of bringing in a trusted...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
As long as it divides the Tehran regime, western diplomats are reluctant to give up entirely on a uranium deal The patient has shown no sign of life for weeks, but no one is ready yet to declare it dead. The International Atomic Energy Agency gave Iran until the end of October to confirm a deal it had agreed in principle at the beginning of that month - to export most of its Low Enriched Uranium (LEU)...
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KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday. Police Colonel Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the Internet crime unit, said the committee will fight "insults and the spreading of lies,"...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi says the death of protesters in Iran was regrettable but unavoidable He insisted that his role in Britain was to provide spiritual advice to all Muslims, irrespective of their sectarian backgrounds... The Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative in Britain has told Muslim servicemen and women to quit the Armed Forces, saying that their involvement in the Afghanistan...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Anyone who counts Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi as a spiritual leader is unlikely to have joined the British military in the first place. He is the religious envoy of the same regime that calls Britain “the little Satan”. Ayatollah Moezi is the director of the Islamic Centre of England , the London outpost of Iran’s neoconservative regime — a role to which he was personally appointed...
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New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
From The Times, comment on this main story, that according to Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi, director of the Islamic Centre of England, it was wrong for followers of Islam to serve in the Armed Forces, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq where Muslims were being killed. Anyone who counts Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi as a spiritual leader is unlikely to have joined the British military in the first place....
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Slog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Green Revolution doesn't seem to have slowed the government down much. The state will put the brother-in-law of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi on trial for unspecified charges . (He was arrested during the June tumult.) Israel claims it has intercepted 500 tons of weapons going from Iran to Syria, perhaps for Hezbollah. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proclaims he cannot be fired as...
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