Schlagwort: Iran

Many Western journalists, diplomats and others seem desperate to believe that Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, is a moderate in a sea of hardliners, a rare Iranian with whom the West can and has done business. … Zarif has a very different mission. The Iranian foreign minister’s job is not…

„There’s a tendency among some agenda journalists to walk across a field, point out how wonderful the roses smell, and seemingly ignore that the rest of the field is covered in cow manure. Hence, it is often with regard to Iran and the tendency of so many journalists and officials…

„Darüber hinaus werden seit 2010 die neonazistischen Aktivitäten des Nazicenter.com, das beim Kulturministerium (Wezarat Erschad) registriert ist (www.samandehi.ir), gefördert. Während regimekritische Webseiten und Blogs seit Jahren blockiert und gelöscht und oppositionelle Internetaktivisten verfolgt, verhaftet und umgebracht werden. Nazicenter.Ir und Nazicenter.com werden von Babak Badrian, einem Absolventen der islamischen Universität Najafabad…

„As the world marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday tweeted that he too, is a fan of The Bard, and highlighted ‚The Merchant of Venice‘ – famous for its derogatory depiction of Jewish moneylender Shylock – as being in „accordance with…

„Iran’s central bank must pay nearly $2 billion to victims of terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. In a 6-to-2 decision, the court said Congress had not exceeded its constitutional role in enacting a statute to make it easier for the plaintiffs to recover damages that had been…

„Recent comments by Iranian military personnel suggest that their support for the Assad government in the Syrian Civil War includes previously unknown contributions by the country’s conventional armed forces (the Artesh). Specifically, the deployment of advisors including those from the 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade. This revelation is significant because…

„Stimmte [der niedersächsische Ministerpräsident Stephan] Weil seinem Gesprächspartner [Ali Akbar Rafsanjani] bei der Analyse des Terrorproblems im Nahen Osten und weltweit noch zu, waren damit die Gemeinsamkeiten erschöpft. Rafsanjani sprach nun nämlich ein Thema an, das man durchaus als Affront gegenüber einem Gast aus Deutschland verstehen konnte: Israel. Dabei verlor…

Von Alexander Gruber In ihrem gestrigen ZiB13-Bericht über den Widerstand französischer Stewardessen gegen den Kopftuchzwang bei Flügen in den Iran behauptete Kristina Stiller: „Auf den Straßen von Teheran herrscht für Frauen Kopftuchpflicht. Zwar geht der Iran immer lockerer damit um, aber auch Ausländerinnen müssen den Kopf bedecken.“ Doch auch wenn…

„Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday vowed to defend Muslim countries against terrorism and Israel while insisting that its neighbors should not feel threatened. Speaking during a National Army Day parade in which Iranian forces displayed sophisticated air defense systems recently acquired from Russia, Rouhani praised Tehran’s role in helping…

„The fragile cease-fire declared in Syria on February 27 between regime and rebel forces is in the process of crumbling. Assad’s forces have launched an offensive across southern Aleppo province. Fighting is also taking place in Homs and northwest Hama provinces and east of Damascus. There are reports of regime…

„Major Ahmad-Reza Khosravi, 39, a pilot in the helicopter unit of the Iranian Security Services, fled Iran to Turkey in March 2015 after he was refused repeated requests to be discharged from the military, requests he made due to ideological differences with the regime. Recently the subject of an apparent…

„Manchmal fragt sich der Menschenrechtsaktivist, um die deutschen Massenmedien einfach nur uninformiert und naiv in Sachen islamistischem Terrorismus sind oder ob sie einfach nur ein bestimmtes Bild des internationalen Terrorismus zeichnen müssen. Anders sind solche Beiträge wie der in der FAZ (04.04.2016 – ‚Terrorgefahr in Nahost: Saudi-Arabien und Iran sollten…

„Air France is facing a rebellion from gay air stewards – who are refusing to fly on a new route to Iran. The company is launching a new route from Paris to Tehran, the capital of the reclusive state, with flights set to begin on April 17. … But gay…

„The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain on Monday published a list of 68 Islamist groups it classified as ‚terrorist,‘ according to the state news agency BNA. Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement, already branded as ‚terrorist‘ by the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League, topped the list approved by Bahrain’s cabinet, BNA…

„Diplomacy has meanwhile made little progress with no compromise over the future of President Bashar al-Assad, his position strengthened by Iranian and Russian military support. A top Iranian official, in comments to Iran TV, rejected what he described as a U.S. request for Tehran’s help to make Assad leave power,…