Schlagwort: Iran

„Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are using hospitals as military command posts, thereby deliberately putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk, according to a new report into Yemen’s long-running civil war. Hostilities in the Yemeni conflict resumed at the weekend following the collapse of peace talks in Kuwait. The talks came…

„A recent survey among Sunni religous scholars in the Iranian province of Kermansheh shows that a majority of them (67{a7b8b9982d1bbdc5e1caab033d30320c7a19bdb9cd0371a3252625f5cda85985}) believe that ‚female circumcision‘ is religiously obligatory or at least recommended for girls and women. In this province in the West of Iran, female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced by…

Interview mit Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar ist seit 1992 Direktor des Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies an der israelischen Bar-Ilan-Universität in Ramat Gan. Er lehrt dort als Professor für Politikwissenschaft unter anderem zum arabisch-israelischen Konflikt, zu Entwicklungen im Nahen Osten und zu Sicherheitsfragen in der Region. Janis Just (JJ): Der…

„Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin hat bei einem Dreiertreffen in Baku eine engere Zusammenarbeit mit seinen Kollegen aus Aserbaidschan und dem Iran vereinbart. (…) Beim Treffen mit dem iranischen Präsidenten Hassan Ruhani standen unter anderem russische Pläne auf dem Programm, im Iran acht Atomreaktoren zu bauen. Eine entsprechende Vereinbarung hatten Moskau…

„Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rumoured to be planning a political comeback, has asked Barack Obama to return $2 billion of assets frozen in the US in a letter made public Monday. Ahmadinejad wrote that despite early promises by the US president to improve ties with Iran ‚the same hostile…

„The head of Iran’s judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, made an interesting proposition to European countries during a speech Aug. 3 on the occasion of Human Rights Day in Iran. He said Iran is willing to hold talks on human rights as long as Europe is willing to also discuss the…

„The jihadist-led Jaish al Fatah launched a major offensive in southwestern Aleppo on July 31 to break the siege of the rebel-held part of the city. The offensive comes after the last supply route north of Aleppo was severed on July 28 by pro-regime forces encompassing the Syrian Arab Army,…

„Hassan Afshar, 19, was executed at the prison in the city of Arak on July 18, according to Amnesty International. The secondary school pupil was executed after he was convicted of raping another boy, during a two-month trial in which he had no legal representation. Afshar was arrested in 2014…

„Iran’s top leader distanced himself on Monday from the nuclear agreement reached with major powers a year ago, accusing the United States of failing to honor pledges in the accord and citing ‚the futility of negotiations with the Americans.‘ In blunt remarks prominently featured in Iran’s state news media, the…

„Im Juni 2016 nahmen irakische Truppen die Stadt Falluja ein, die seit Januar 2014 vom sogenannten Islamischen Staat (IS) kontrolliert worden war. Neben den regulären Truppen beteiligten sich zum wiederholten Mal schiitische Milizen an den Kämpfen. Sie sind Teil der ‚Volksmobilisierungseinheiten‘, einem breiten Bündnis schiitischer paramilitärischer Kräfte, das 2014 gegründet…

Von Felix Balandat Seine Mutter musste nach der Iranischen Revolution 1979 den Hijab tragen, obwohl sie es nie wollte. In den heißen Sommern der Region Chuzestan am nordöstlichen Ufer des Persischen Golfs ging sie in ihrem schweren schwarzen Kleid einkaufen. Als sie wieder zu Hause war, hatte sie aufgrund der…

„Iranian Kurdish opposition parties are trying to form one joint Kurdish front in the face of the threats of the Iranian government against Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan. Mohamed Nazif Qadiri told BasNews on July 27 that six Iranian Kurdish opposition sides have met twice over the past weeks, and in…

„Hossein Tayeb, head of the Iranian think tank Ammar Base and Khamenei’s associate, said that today Israel is completely surrounded and its only way to survive is Syria. Because of this reason, the fight in Syria today is a fight for the destruction of Israel.“(Bericht auf der Website Good Morning…

„A top Iranian general recently visited the Israeli-Syrian border to tour a city on Israel’s doorstep, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Wednesday, marking the first time the government has publicized a visit by a senior regime official to the area. General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of the Basij paramilitary…

„A group of women has reportedly been arrested for riding bicycles in Iran and made to sign pledges not to repeat the ‚violation‘. They were planning to participate in a cycling event in the north-western city of Marivan when police told them a new government directive had barred women riding…