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File photo of a ballistic missile launched and tested in an undisclosed location, Iran. (Reuters) Reuters Saturday, 1 September 2018 Text size  A   A   A Iran plans to boost its ballistic and cruise missile capacity, as well as acquire new generation fighter planes and submarines, the Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted a senior Defence Ministry official as saying on Saturday. Iran says its missile program is solely defensive in nature and is not negotiable as demanded by the United States and European countries. Tehran says its plans to develop missiles are not linked to its 2015 nuclear accord with world powers. “Increasing ballistic and cruise missile capacity ... and the acquisition of new generation fighters and heavy and long-range vessels and submarines with various weapons capabilities are among the new plans of this ministry,” said Mohammad Ahadi, deputy defense minister for international affairs, IRNA said. Speaking to Tehran-ba...

Aerial view of the US embassy in Beirut, 18 April 1983, after a bomb destroyed part of the building. (AFP) By Tony Duheaume Special to Al Arabiya English Friday, 31 August 2018 Text size  A   A   A With Iran’s founder and first Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini applying the name of the Islamic Republic of Iran to his regime, after the fall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, he tried to portray his newly created clerical dictatorship as the bastion of religious virtue. All this when in fact it was awash with revolutionary ideology steeped in mysticism, martyrdom, mass murder, extreme oppression, and a hegemonic desire to take over the whole of the Middle East, all concealed from the world through a litany of lies. The Iranian regime came into being through mass slaughter, as the revolution wound down, those opposing Khomeini were hunted down on the streets, or grabbed from their homes, and those surviving summary executions, were caged in dismal p...

Women pray for Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war at the Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in Tehran on August 2, 2017. (Reuters) By Reza Shafiee, Special to Al Arabiya English Saturday, 30 December 2017 Text size  A   A   A Every year, the day November 25 comes as a grim reminder that we have a long way to go for achieving gender parity. There are still many countries in the world where women cannot fully exercise the right to shape their own destiny. Violence against women is another detestable vestige of the most patriarchal societies inherited by our generation. It may seem that we have come a long way since the Dark Ages, but there are still some countries in the world that have made little progress in according equal rights to women and men. There is even a country where misogyny is the order of the day and where women have no legal rights. It may come as a shock to many, but Iran continues to run in this way. The Ir...

August 28, 2018  by  Nikoo Amini Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani went to the  Parliament  on Tuesday morning to answer MPs’ questions on his government’s handling of the country’s economic situation. The MPs asked Hassan Rouhani five main questions and they were not convinced by his explanations about the administration’s performance following the decline of the national currency’s value and controversial economic policies, according to Tasnim news agency. Read more

A top U.N. expert is taking aim at the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten the screws on Iran’s theocratic regime, saying that U.S. sanctions are “illegitimate” and are driving Iranians into poverty. First of all, I must thank my colleague and my brother Heshmat Alavi for his unique work in collecting information about this person who helped me with this article. this article published in Herald Report under this title:" A Call for Western Politicians and UN officials to Stop Supporting Iran’s Genocidal Regime   " Fox News  in a report  by   Ben Evansky, Adam Shaw  wrote: A top U.N. expert is taking aim at the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten the screws on Iran’s theocratic regime, saying that U.S. sanctions are “illegitimate” and are driving Iranians into poverty. Wait a minute! what he said?  continue on fox article:  "The Trump administration has been criticized by members of both the U.N. and E.U. leaders for its decis...