IRAN FOCUS Jamal Jafar Ibrahim, known as Abu Mehdi Mohandes, who is wanted by the judiciaries of Kuwait and the United States, as well as Interpol, for blowing up the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait in December 1983, has recently been introduced as Deputy President of the Popular Basij Organization. The December 1983 explosions…
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Iran is a dangerous ‘ally’ in Syria and Iraq
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES By Hugh Shelton t the dawn of 2015, the U.S. has yet to articulate a comprehensive foreign-policy strategy to counter the influence and territorial gains of Islamic State, the terrorist group that emerged last year — and poses a dangerous and vexing threat to stability across the Middle East and North…
The top threat is still Iran
THE NEW YORK POST By Linda Chavez The agreement last week between the governments of Iraq and Iran to enter a formal relationship to fight the Islamic State group should be deeply troubling to the United States. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is a grave threat to the region and is responsible for…
Iraq must lift inhumane Camp Liberty medical blockade: Iraq EU Association
Iraq must lift its ‘merciless’ medical blockade of Camp Liberty which has cost the lives of 22 Iranian dissidents, the European Iraqi Freedom Association has demanded. The siege was put into place under former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in 2009, but is still in force today, the EIFA President Struan Stevenson said. A press…
Paris Attack: Jihadi Cancer Has Its Roots in Tehran
THE DIPLOMAT By Struan Stevenson “The spread of violent jihad across the world was the inspiration of Ayatollah Khomenei.” The horror assassination of ten journalists and two policemen in Paris is simply the latest manifestation of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism whose genesis can be traced directly back to the Iranian revolution and the coming to…