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Islamic Revolution in the eyes of intellectuals (1)
Jan 31, 2017 11:56The Islamic Revolution that triumphed in Iran these days in 1979 under the leadership of Imam Khomeini (God bless him) to rid the country from domestic despotism and foreign hegemony, was one of the greatest events of the twentieth century – if not the past few centuries.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Unique Movement (1)
Jan 31, 2017 07:31Once Ayatollah Khamenei said, “The great personality of the contemporary era, Imam Khomeini (God’s mercy upon him), was a pious scholar, virtuous and wise politician, innovative faithful and brave and intelligent gnostic, just ruler and devoted combatant. He was a jurisprudent, a philosopher and a teacher of ethics, a literary figure and a poet.”
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Saudi Arabia on the cusp of fundamental changes
Jan 30, 2017 07:26The new year of 2017 does not look very promising for either the Saudi Arabia or its King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the last surviving son of the first Saudi King Ibn Saud. In future, once Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is gone, the Kingdom will be inherited by the younger generation of the royal family.
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The empire strikes back - why Neocons are building case against JCPOA?
Jan 29, 2017 06:07New US president, Donald Trump’s quixotic decision to place Iran on the list of countries whose nationals are to be denied entry visa, is an indication of the Neocon mentality governing the Republican Administration, whose hawks are trying to build a case against the JCPOA on the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear programme worked out by Tehran and the 5+1 group of countries.
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Leader calls on Muslim students in West to promote Islam
Jan 28, 2017 09:28Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, recently called on Muslim students in Europe, the Americas and other parts of the western world to promote Islam.
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Oceans, tuberculosis and killer robots: The UN’s diverse agenda in 2017
Jan 28, 2017 09:22The article you are about to read has been authored by Lyndal Rowlands who has worked as a UN correspondent since 2014 and has covered a wide range of international development issues, including development financing, global health, climate change and Indigenous issues. She has degrees in media communication and development studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Obama’s achievement: Whitewashing permanent warfare
Jan 28, 2017 09:20Judging from how the mainstream media has characterized the legacy of Barack Obama so far, the outgoing president will be most remembered for his many rousing aspirational speeches and well-timed shows of emotion.
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Obama’s bombing legacy
Jan 28, 2017 09:15While presenting himself as the president responsible for ending America’s foreign wars, he has involved the U.S. in new ones to one degree or another since the spring of 2011. However, his decisions to initiate, escalate, or join these wars have faced remarkably little scrutiny and even less resistance. Obama is responsible for his own policies, but he could not have done so much at such low political cost if both Congress and the press weren’t so content to accept presidential war-making.
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US deep state in deep trouble
Jan 28, 2017 09:13US ruling power is in deep trouble because there are growing signs that the mass of citizens are no longer beholden to the supposed authority residing in Washington. Once the legitimacy of would-be authorities begins to collapse in the eyes of the people, then profound political change is in the offing, as history shows us through countless empires that came and went – often ignominiously.
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Learning to love a multipolar world
Jan 28, 2017 09:07American foreign policy is at a crossroads. The United States has been an expanding power since its start in 1789. It battled its way across North America in the nineteenth century and gained global dominance in the second half of the twentieth.