The controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo hit headlines again last week after publishing derogatory cartoons purportedly in defense of Iranian women while making a mockery of the same women. Looking back at the magazine’s Islamophobic history, the cartoons did not come as a surprise as it continues to aggressively promoteContinue Reading
WASHINGTON — Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate of aContinue Reading
A prominent Saudi opposition figure says the scale of human rights violations in the Persian Gulf kingdom has dramatically risen up ever since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) took the helm of state affairs in 2017, and the vicious crackdown against dissidents now expands to their families and closeContinue Reading
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said Tuesday. The verdict against Faezeh Hashemi, who is a known Iranian activist, is “not final,” the lawyer, Neda Shams, said in a tweet. “The client is still in prisonContinue Reading
By Pepe Escobar The consensus among future historians will be inevitable: the 2020s started with a diabolic murder. Baghdad airport, January 3, 2020, 00:52 a.m. local time. The assassination of Gen.QassemSoleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic RevolutionGuards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander ofContinue Reading
By Syed Zafar Mehdi On December 30, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling on the Haque-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) to offer its view on the legal consequences of the Israeli regime’s “prolonged occupation” of Palestinian territories, with 87 countries voting in favor of it. TheContinue Reading
China has reaffirmed its traditional friendly relations with Iran, saying Beijing’s ties with Tehran and its relations with the member states of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) do not target any third party. “China and Iran enjoy traditional friendship. The GCC countries and Iran are all China’s friends, andContinue Reading
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak says the global crude market is currently in a much better shape than it was two months ago, but many uncertainties remain. Novak made the remarks in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel on Sunday, after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting CountriesContinue Reading
Russia will keep looking for buyers for its oil despite a “dangerous” attempt by the West to introduce a $60 price cap on Russian oil amid a pressure campaign against Moscow over the war in Ukraine, the Russian embassy in the United States says. The price cap was agreed upon byContinue Reading