By Kay Armin Serjoie and Marc Jourdier | – Tehran (AFP) – The victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran was an earthquake that upended the political order in the Middle East, and the aftershocks are still being felt 40 years later. When Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ousted the shah’s last government in February […]
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Middle East
Saudi Arabia Creates App to Track Women’s Movements
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Saudi Arabia has created an application that allows male guardians to track and prevent women from travelling due to the rise in the number of women recently fleeing the ultra-conservative kingdom. The app, called Absher, meaning “Good Tidings” in Arabic, has been in operation for several years, however, it has only recently […]
Israeli Ministers Sign Petition to Settle 2 Million Israelis in Palestinian West Bank
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of Israeli ministers and senior officials from the Likud political party and other right-wing parties have signed a petition to settle two million Jews across the occupied West Bank. Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and ministers Gilad Erdan, Miri Regev, Yisrael Katz of the Likud party, Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett […]
Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Death to America’ means US Rulers, not American Public
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The clerical Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said Friday on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, that Iran has good relations with all the countries of the world. He observed that he does not urge breaking relations with any European country. “The slogan ‘Death to America,’” he said, […]
Palestine and the Israel-Saudi Arabia Alliance
By Ibrahim Fraihat | – (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network) – The October 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi government in Istanbul brought into sharp relief the deepening relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel: Israel had supplied Pegasus spyware to the Saudi government, which it used to surveille Khashoggi, and two […]
Did the National Enquirer blackmail Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Protect the Saudi Crown Prince?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – David Pecker’s attempt to blackmail Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would not ordinarily attract my eye. Except for this paragraph: “And sometimes Mr. Pecker mixes it all together: “After Mr. Trump became president, he rewarded Mr. Pecker’s loyalty with a White House dinner to which the media executive brought a guest […]
Iran Politics a “Powderkeg” of Corruption and Repression as Revolution Turns 40
By Kay Armin Serjoie and Eric Randolph Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s main political parties are on rocky ground as the Islamic Republic marks its 40th birthday, with reformists in disarray and conservatives seeking a new identity. Even though key reformist leaders have been forcibly sidelined, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a former reformist vice-president in the 1990s, […]
Congress Toughening toward Saudis amid Report Prince Threatened ‘Bullet’ for Khashoggi
By Shaun TANDON | – Washington, DC (AFP) – US lawmakers threatened Thursday to take tougher action against Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi amid a new revelation that the kingdom’s powerful crown prince spoke of going after him with a “bullet.” President Donald Trump faces a Friday deadline set by Congress […]
Grand Ayatollah Sistani Slaps down Trump: You may not use Iraq against its Neighbors
Beirut (al-Akhbar) – Iraq’s supreme Shiite religious authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a sharp rebuke to US president Donald Trump during a meeting with the head of the United Nations mission in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert. Sistani said that “Iraq aspires to have good and balanced relations with all neighboring countries, avoiding interfering in their internal […]
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