Published in De Welt Das militärische Engagement des Irans in Syrien kostet jährlich Milliarden, die Land sich nicht leisten kann. Die Wirtschaft ist ins Trudeln geraten – und der Unmut der Bevölkerung wächst. Es könnte die Dämmerung des Regimes sein. (more…)
Iran's power posturing is designed to disguise the fact that the country is weakening from within. The recent unrest in Iran has confirmed what many attuned to domestic conditions in the Islamic Republic have long known: that an explosion was not a matter of if, but of when. The...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBo0_t0H5Hc[/embed] On the 10th of February, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged his country's elite to unite in the face of threats by Washington, since the new US Administration, under President Donald Trump, increasingly demonstrates a new, and tougher range of options to be used against the Islamic Republic, pertaining to...
As the last debates in the U.S. Senate fade away and President Rouhani receives a hero’s welcome in the UN, it is worthwhile to note the new alliances the U.S. has formed in the wake of this “New middle East.” Chief amongst them is NIAC, the National Iranian American Council,...
Una jornada después de unos comicios legislativos en los que el votante estadounidense parece haber puesto en tela de juicio al Presidente y su iniciativa, el Wall Street Journal apuntaba la primicia de que el Presidente Obama habría remitido una misiva secreta al ayatolá Jamenei, líder supremo de la República...
A day after mid-term election in which American voters appeared to have challenged the President and its leadership, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that President Obama sent a secret letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, Islamic Regime's supreme leader. This was apparently the fourth letter in a series of secret...
by Nir Boms and Shayan Arya Gatestone Institute Although physically weak from recent routine prostate surgery, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, emerged smiling from his hospital bed -- and for a good reason. He has never been stronger. From Syria to Iraq, from Tehran to Gaza and UN headquarters...
The Cold War is long gone, says the American president, and the Ukrainian affair is not a“ Cold War chessboard.” Syria and Ukraine, he adds, are about “expression of hopes” rather than acts of regional powers. After all, the people – 96% of them to be exact – have...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing one of the most serious challenges yet to his undisputed 11-year dominance. Recent charges of money laundering, gold smuggling and bribery have tarnished Erdogan's carefully crafted image. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), which means “white” or “pure” in Turkish, has also...
International news outlets bolstered the recent round of 5+1 negotiations in Geneva, with the BBC reporting an “upbeat mood” and CNN and Reuters speaking of “cautions optimism”, calling the talks “serious.” President Barack Obama has just urged Congress to halt new sanctions on Iran and an Iranian official pledged a...