Why Iran’s Elections Will Not Be Democratic
By FDD Staff Six hundred and eighty six Iranian citizens have...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Has Turkey Betrayed the West?
Once a secular, modernizing country, Turkey’s ruthless assault on journalists raises serious doubts about its future.
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Obama Administration ‘May Be Forced’ to Launch Military Strike Against Iran
Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, Mark Dubowitz warned that Iran was in the process of installing "thousands of new, more efficient centrifuges". He said, "By June 2014, they'l...
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At the U.N., Iran Is a Powerhouse, Not a Pariah
The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism heads the General Assembly's second-largest voting bloc.
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Nursing Mothers Imprisoned: UN Report Details Iranian Persecution of Non-Muslims
Iran’s hard-line regime has intensified its violent crackdown on Christians and other religious minorities, even imprisoning nursing mothers for practicing their faith, according to a new U...
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The Iran-North Korea Axis of Proliferation
Both Iran and North Korea are subject to a growing stack of sanctions with which the United Nations, since 2006, has been...
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Is Iran Creating a Health Crisis to Evade Sanctions?
Unless Iran abandons its quest for nuclear weapons, there is one certainty in Washington’s policy toward the Islamic Republic: more sanctions. It is also inevitable that the more these econ...
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Meet Iran’s Ambassador to the UN
In a sold-out event, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, will be speaking Wednesday evening...
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Egypt Against Itself
A society on the edge of chaos.
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Iran: The War Within and Without
A week ago, something went seriously wrong in the underground tunnels beneath the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz. I don’t know if it was an explosion, on-site sabotage,...
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For Iran, the Holocaust is Just Another Tragedy – If It Ever Happened
On Monday, I invited Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to visit Berlin's Holocaust Memorial....
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Germany’s Top Anti-Semite?
Journalist Jakob Augstein appears alongside Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a top 10 list of the world’s worst bigots.
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An Unholy Alliance
Germany appeared over the past several months to have finally fallen in line behind European Union efforts to stiffen economic sanctions against Iran. But in late October a group of German parlia...
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‘Austria Committed to Implementing Iran Sanctions’
Austria’s Foreign Ministry flatly rejected on Monday accusations by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which asserted over the weekend that Vienna is a major hub for Iranian money-laundering, in...
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Analysis: German-Iranian Trade Booming
Myth of impossibility of unilateral sanctions persists.
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Analysis: Will New EU Sanctions on Iran Count?
The European Union’s foreign ministers are slated to convene on Monday in Luxembourg to rubber-stamp a new round of energy sanctions on Iran’s vulnerable gas, financial and shipping s...
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Canadian Native Stooges Then and Now — South Africa, 1987 v. Iran, 2012
Today’s National Post front page carries a story about the “...
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Spinning Ahmadinejad
His UN speech should have raised alarms.
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Ahmadinejad Shows His Soft Side in UN Speech
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a devout, sincerely spiritual, loyal foot soldier of the Islamic revolution, gave his variation of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the United Nations on Wedn...
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In the Shadow of Ahmadinejad’s Hotel
“A new world order” is what some news accounts say Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been calling for during his current visit to the opening of the United Nations Genera...