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2021/02/06
By Abir Bassam
Tripoli riots: The third step to topple Lebanon
A few days ago, one of my friend’s comments attracted my attention. He said: “America loves Lebanon, as much as Juha loves his stepmother”. Juha is an authentic Arab character, who is known for his exceptional anecdotes that grew as parables in people’s perceptions. He was an exceptional figure in the Arabic culture.
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2021/02/02
By Abir Bassam
Biden and the sweet legacy of Trump
Many have written about the heavy legacy that Donald Trump has left for his successor Joe Biden. However, if we read well about the role the deep system plays in the U.S., it will be difficult to actually believe that. Trump, the clown, came for the purpose of rewriting the international agreements, which America had signed during Barak Obama’s presidency (2008- 2016).
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2021-02-01 21:51
By Martin Love
America has not been helping itself …
It’s easy to get the impression that the people most set upon in the world now, really as never before, are the seven million or so people trapped in divided cantons inside historic Palestine with no civil rights, no vote, no official empathy and no resources to speak of except “samud”, an Arabic term for something like gutsy endurance in the face of pain.
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2021/02/01
By Munir A Saeed
Sometimes it takes a volcano to start the healing
Let me start by saying something some may consider outrageous. One day, not long from now, many may look back on the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency and consider it to be not just the worst choice Americans made, but, ironically, the best thing that happened to America and the world. Why? The U.S. needed Donald Trump to save it from itself.
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2021-02-01 15:14
By Mohammad Javdan
Indonesia studying case of Iranian ship independently
On January 25, the Indonesian Coast Guard announced that it had seized two Iranian and Panamanian-flagged tankers in its territorial waters and intends to release both ships by the end of the week if there is no solid evidence. Now, it is a good opportunity to examine all the developments surrounding this event.
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2021/01/25
By Rakib Al Hasan
New U.S. administration: Challenges and opportunities
Joe Biden has been elected as the new president of the United States in a victory. Trump's defeat has brought global relief.
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2021/01/24
By Abir Bassam
Lebanon and the vexatious politics
We still remember the "demonstrations" that dominated the streets of Beirut on October 17, 2019. It began as an attempt for political and economic reforms.
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2021-01-20 11:54
By Amb. G. Hossein Dehghani
JCPOA implementation amid a tug of war between rhetoric and facts
The man behind the insurrection at home and disarray abroad!
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2021-01-19 15:47
By Ian Greenhalgh
How should we remember General Soleimani?
It is true that often, one can better assess a person by who their enemies were than by who were their friends. If we apply this maxim to the late General Qassem Soleimani, sadly assassinated by U.S. airstrike in January 2020, we see clearly that his enemies were the United States, Israel, and their allies in West Asia – Saudi Arabia and the Arab States.
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2021-01-19 14:47
By Walt Peretto
General Soleimani: Fighting globalism in the trenches
General Qassem Soleimani was the leader in the field for Iran’s effort to rid West Asia and North Africa of the scourge of terrorism. Soleimani achieved major successes against Western-backed mercenary groups in Syria and Iraq. This ended when Soleimani was assassinated in a drone attack on January 3, 2020, on the orders of U.S. President Donald Trump. Officially, this assassination was lauded by Israel and the Saudi proxy government in Yemen.
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2021/01/19
By Dr. Kevin Barrett
General Qassem Soleimani: Iconic martyr of the century
“Due to his legendary courage, General Soleimani was loved and admired by nearly everyone, including many of his enemies”
TEHRAN- The previous century (20th c.e., 14th h.) featured innumerable martyrs. But only a few of their names have been chiseled prominently into the tablets of world history. Mahatma Gandhi, John and Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Sayyid Qutb were all murdered for standing up against evil. None were saints, much less prophets or imams. All led imperfect lives and had personal as well as intellectual flaws. Yet each became emblematic of a different facet of the struggle for God and the good against the forces of Satan that dominate the so-called modern world.
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2021/01/13
By Amal Wahdan
General Soleimani’s legacy: Unifying the Arab resistance against imperialism and hegemony
Today, the masses of the resistance movements in the region are commemorating the first anniversary of the martyrdom of General Qassem Soleimani and his companion Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
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2021/01/13
By Munir A. Saeed
No ETs here, only Americans
Recently I dug out an old document I wanted to read again. I fished it out from under a pile of other old material I had printed and saved. Perhaps for posterity.
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2021/01/11
By Abir Bassam
The American riots: A vertical trench in process
On Wednesday evening, it was not the first time that Americans poured into the streets in protest. However, a long time has not passed since the world has witnessed that rioters and demonstrators assaulted the symbol of American democracy: The Capitol.
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2021-01-09 18:27
By Martin Love
Is Biden up to the challenge of wise governance? That’s now the question…
Donald Trump has probably done more damage to the U.S. than any president ever has, and inciting the violent raid on the Capitol in Washington in which five people died and much physical damage was done is his last destructive act and the end of his political career.
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2021/01/09
Will the Deal of Century include Indonesia?
Over the past half a century, presidents of the United States have regularly assured American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at annual meetings of Washington’s commitment to the Zionist regime’s values. To that effect, efforts to help the Zionist regime reach sustainable security constitute a principled policy of Washington.
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2021-01-06 16:40
By Martin Love
If any country has erred this century, it’s the U.S. …
“Though we (the U.S.) spends a trillion dollars a year between our military and our intelligence and our “national security” circles, that trillion dollars has built, you know, things that can stop all the planes and the missiles and all kinds of things from other countries. But we missed the one thing other countries like China have deployed, which is not to fight at all, not firing a bullet or missile at all, but taking the U.S. out from within. And that’s what’s going on.”
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2021/01/04
By Randi Nord
A tale of a fearless yet humble General
“General Soleimani assassination demonstrates Washington's cowardice and love of chaos”
First, I would like to send my condolences to the Iranian people on the first anniversary of General Qassem Soleimani's death. This cowardly act is not a reflection of the general American public who would prefer peace with Iran. People immediately filled the streets across the country condemning Washington's actions and the potential war against Iran. I remember in Detroit alone we had several hundred people in attendance despite the bitterly cold weather.
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2021/01/04
By Sonja van den Ende
General Soleimani: A superhero who stood up to reveal the ugly face of Western interferences
On 3 January 2020 General Qassem Soleimani was brutally assassinated, with a specific targeted drone strike, in Bagdad, Iraq, by the United States. This was a terrible barbaric act of war on a great and high standing general, who was the driving force in eliminating the U.S. and Western-funded terrorist group ISIS (DAESH).
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2021-01-04 11:48
By Andrew Korybko
Major General Soleimani's assassination was an unforgettably historic crime
The one year anniversary of Major General Soleimani's assassination is the perfect moment to reflect on the significance of this unforgettably historic crime. The world was aghast when they learned that Trump ordered U.S. drones to kill the Iranian military leader in Baghdad's airport, which immediately raised fears of a larger war throughout the region.
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2021-01-03 16:29
By Stephen Lendman
General Qassem Soleimani: Revered Iranian freedom fighter and U.S. big lies about him
General Soleimani is larger than life in death than when alive
TEHRAN- On January 3, 2020, revered Iranian Quds Force freedom-fighting commander General Qassem Soleimani was martyred by Pentagon assassins on orders by the Trump regime’s hardliners — an act of cold-blooded murder of a beloved figure throughout much of the region. Deputy Head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) Hashed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and others were martyred along with him.
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2021-01-03 14:29
By Denis Korkodinov
In memory of the man of anti-imperialist battles
On January 3, 2020, Washington, on the personal orders of President Donald Trump, committed a perfidious act of aggression against Iran, assassinating the commander of the Al-Quds special unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qassem Soleimani. In the vicinity of Baghdad, along with the Iranian general, the leader of the Iraqi Mobilization Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was assassinated.
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2021-01-03 12:08
By Dennis Etler
General Soleimani led the Iranian nation in its struggle against U.S. Imperialism and Zionism
The imperious U.S. has never forgiven the Iranian nation and people for standing up to it. The 1953 CIA initiated coup that installed the hated Pahlavi regime was a dagger that pierced the heart of the Iranian people. Ever since the great Iranian Revolution of 1979, the U.S. has tried by hook or by crook to restore the monarchy and return Iran to U.S.-Zionist subjugation. The resistance of Iran to U.S. hegemony in West Asia has been a thorn in its side ever since.
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2020/12/29
*By Professor Khawar Qureshi QC
The Importance of International Law – the JCPOA must be upheld
It often said that International Law is predominantly a tool for some States to pursue their own aims and justify their actions against others. However, whilst International Law and its institutions are far from perfect, they provide the only viable means through which States can interact with each other on a basis of mutual respect and co-operation.
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2020-12-28 11:31
By Chang Hua, Chinese Ambassador to Iran
Joint response to terrorism under the new circumstances
TEHRAN- Currently, the global fight against terrorism has made important progress. However, terrorist activities remain rampant, the breeding ground is yet to be eradicated. Frequent terrorist attacks around the world remind us that terrorism has never gone away. International counter-terrorism cooperation still has a long way to go and must be strengthened, not weakened.
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2020/12/26
By Abir Bassam
Idlib refugee camps: People under the siege
Idlib is a province located in northwest Syria. The district and its main city share the same name. Idlib’s name has been repeated with great importance since 2012, the early days of the war on Syria. It was the substitute entrance used to smuggle the terrorist group of al-Nusra and its branches: Fateh al-Sham, which was established and trained directly by Turkey and financed by Qatar, and Ahrar al-sham, which was established and trained by the Americans and financed by Saudi Arabia.
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2020-12-23 13:25
By Martin Love
Sustained and rare, honest goodwill by the U.S. is its only salvation now…
It would appear that the primary question regarding whether the JCPOA will be resurrected and sanctions dropped is on whose terms this might happen, if ever.
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2020-12-21 13:27
By H.E. Ronny Prasetyo Yuliantoro
Commemoration of 70 years of Indonesia-Iran diplomatic relations
The year 2020 marks the 70 years of Indonesia-Iran diplomatic relations. The two countries have been developing cooperation in many areas including those in progress even to date. Both countries are now making the best out of these potentials /opportunities while adjusting to the most updated global situation most notably the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020/12/19
By Abir Bassam
In the lost time, another shocking assassination in one year
The news of the assassination of the prominent Iranian scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was shocking to many around the world. Though it has been clear that the assassination has provoked the Iranian people as well as the public of its friends, no one can say that it is going to be an easy case to handle in the short or long term.
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2020-12-18 16:34
A fragile budget
TEHRAN- President Rouhani Submitted the latest government Budget Bill to the Iranian parliament. Iran’s 2021 budget with 53% growth compared to the previous year, has broken the record of budget growth in recent decades.