(Various sources, AFP, Farsi News, Law.com) The US has detained a well respected Iranian scientist for nearly seven months for allegedly attempting to ship growth hormones. Professor Masoud Soleimani had been invited to meet at the Mayo Clinic. The US canceled his research visa while he was alre[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
Is The Caliph Dead?
DESPITE RUSSIAN AND IRAQI SOURCES, KURDISH SECURITY SAYS CALIPH IS STILL ALIVE Even more than the fall of the supposed capital of ISIS caliphate, the death of Baghdadi, the DAESH claimant to be the Caliph, would be historic. Sources in Russia and now in Iraq said Baghdadi has now been killed. Beca[...]
July 15th, 2017 - 12:43 am § in Misc.
Could Iran Fall?
Opinion | It’s time to prepare for Iran’s political collapse The one thing certain about Iran’s future? Another protest movement is coming. WASHINGTONPOST.COM[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 7:37 am § in Foreign Affairs
IRAN BLAMES US FOR ISIS ATTACKS IN TEHRAN
Iranian official calls Tehran attacks a Saudi-Israel-US plot Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns ISIS-claimed dual attacks that killed 17 people in Tehran will only fuel Iranians’ hatred toward the U.S. and Saudi Arabia • Senior general says Iran’s response to attacks “bu[...]
May 23rd, 2017 - 11:43 pm § in Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia
Iran’s View of Trump and The Sunnis
Donald Trump’s Inner Monster Goes on the Rampage in Middle East TEHRAN (FNA)- After finalizing an unconscionable $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, US President Donald Trump on Sunday gave a speech in Riyadh to leaders of a vast congress of Arab dictators and cut-throat autocrats in which h[...]
April 13th, 2017 - 1:56 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
BREAKING NEWS: Message to North Korea from The Donald
President Donald Trump called it “another successful job” later Thursday. Washington (CNN) Trump’s military dropped America’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb, the “Bunker Buster,” on ISIS targets in Afghanistan. This is the weapon the US would use if it were to [...]
April 11th, 2017 - 1:19 am § in Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia
SYRIA II?
Iran’s Houthi rebels in Yemen are threatening free movement into and out of the Red Sea Acting “with the support of Iran,” the rebels have deployed “coastal defense missiles, radar systems, mines and explosives boats that have been migrated fr om the Strait of Hormuz,” US Central Comm[...]
April 10th, 2017 - 12:29 pm § in Misc.
TRUMP MAY ANOINT AN EMPEROR
IRAN’S LONG-EXILED PRINCE WANTS A REVOLU TION IN AGE OF TRUMP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran’s exiled crown prince wants a revolution. Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah to rule before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, has seen his profile rise in recent months following [...]
March 28th, 2017 - 11:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION BAN VS AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
IRANIANS, ENGINES OF US UNIVERSITY RESEARCH, WAIT IN LIMBOBOSTON (AP) – Hundreds of Iranian students already accepted into U.S. graduate programs may not be able to come next fall because of the uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban, potentially derailing r[...]