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The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on 117 Iranian aircraft operated by Iran Air, Mahan Air and Yas Air. With the assistance of the terrorist organisation, Hezbollah, Iran is aiding the Assad regime in continuing to commit crimes against its own people....

Iranian Revolutionary Guards have taken control of two churches in Isfahan and are using intimidation and threats of arrest against those who attempt to enter....

Conspiracy is rife in certain sections of Iranian society when it comes to issues such as Israel, the US, and homosexuality. Sadly, mainstream media outlets also play their part....

At a recent meeting in Tehran, the Iranian regime did not succeed in uniting the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) against Israel. Despite this, UN Secretary General Ban Kim Moon was the only representative who protested the State-sponsored anti-Semitism propagated by the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei....

The persecution of minorities in an Islamic society is truly a barometer of the lack of freedom and equality that prevails there....

Spokesperson of the Iranian Dervish in Europe, Dr. Mostafa Azmayesh, explains why cooperation with Islamist institutions does not lead to an open society in Iran but strengthens the dictatorship instead....

Ahmadinejad is no cleric, but he still took the opportunity to give a hate speech at a Friday prayer meeting held on Quds Day....

If Europe wishes to effect true democracy in the wake of the Assad regime, it must stop playing into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and start aiding the rebels on the ground militarily.   It has been conventional wisdom that the Syrian opposition is deeply divided, making aid and support from the international community very difficult to send. The lack of “one address” with which to coordinate also makes any thoughts of a more rob...

Ahead of Quds Day Iranian politicians have repeated their calls for the destruction of Israel....

Despite international sanctions, the Iranian regime continues to find new ways in manifesting its presence in Germany. This year, the regime will have a prominent presence at the Frankfurt Book Fair....

The University of Religions and Denominations in Qom advocates the anti-American and anti-Semitic state doctrine of the totalitarian dictatorship....

As outlined in the first part of this series, there is a close relationship between the Institute of Religious Studies at the University of Potsdam and the University of Religions and Denominations in the Iranian city of Qom. The problem is that the Iranian institution is an adherent to the totalitarian state ideology of the “Islamic Republic of Iran”....

There is a close relationship between the Institute of Religious Studies at the University of Potsdam and the University of Religions and Denominations in the Iranian City of Qom. The problem is that the Islamist school in Qom is an academy with the aim of spreading the Islamist ideology of the Khomeinist dictatorship....

There has been a recent escalation of systematic persecution of the Baha'is in Iran. Time and again members of the religious minority are arrested under false pretences and imprisoned....

The Iranian regime sees the Strait of Hormuz as its back yard over which it exerts control. It would not hesitate to close it off in the event of a crisis....

Representatives of the Iranian regime declare European sanctions to be ineffective as oil revenues decline and discontent grows among the Iranian people....

The main aim of the Islamist regime in Iran is to reduce the influence of the West in the Islamic world. One way the Iranian regime is doing this is by stoking and radicalising the Syrian-Israeli conflict....

Iran responds to European Union sanctions with military manoeuvres and by threatening to embark on jihadist suicide missions....

In the below article, EFD Senior Fellow Valentina Colombo discusses 2012 Mohammed Morsi’s election....

Ahmadinejad promised to make oil money flow to Iran’s poor. However, the opposite occurred and Iranian workers are now worse off than before....

On 26th June, International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Secretary of the Iranian president gave an anti-Semitic speech and claimed that Talmud encourages the global narcotics trade....

How long will the world continue to look away while Iranian women are oppressed by the systematic, gender-apartheid policies of the Islamist dictatorship?...

Iranian professor, Mahoud Sariulqalam, analyses the politics of the West and certain Middle Eastern countries from the perspective of Iranian power politics. The Iranian political scientist works in a Tehran University and is regarded as a pragmatic and realistic expert of US affairs....

The Iranian regime is actively calling for the killing of those it sees as dissidents....

Iran has recently stepped up countermeasures against the European policy of sanctions. It is making inroads to a stronger commitment toward OPEC and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in order to reduce its dependence on Europe....

In an interview with Fars News, the Iranian ambassador in Berlin contradicted the contents of an interview with Financial Times Deutschland in which he reportedly argued that Iran does not need to enrich uranium to 20 per cent....

EFD Policy Advisor, Ahmad Mansour's plea against Salafism published in the German daily Die Zeit....

Shahin Najafi has become the first target of recent fatwas by Iranian Grand Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani and Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi. These fatwas, call for Muslims and non-Muslims who “insult” the Imams and the Prophet of Islam to be murdered....

The religious leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, has been quoted in various speeches saying that a nuclear bomb is un-Islamic. A number of politicians, academics and journalists have subsequently concluded that this amounts to a fatwa on the nuclear bomb and that the building of a nuclear weapon in Iran is therefore unlikely....

Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani has issued a fatwa against all exiled Iranians who, in the eyes of Iranian rulers, insult Islam and imams and has labeled the offenders apostates. In Islam apostates must be killed. A few days later, Fars News – an Iranian news agency – made it known that a fatwa had been issued calling for the death of Shahin Najafi, a rapper living in Germany. Shiaonline stated that a bounty of US$ 100 000 had been put on Najafi�...

A study published in April 2012 by the scientific department of the Iranian pseudo-parliament details security issues related to Israel’s borders. According to the report, Israel should be less concerned by the military power of its Arab neighbours and more so by the threat of "asymmetric warfare". Its authors assume that the country has "security concerns" in relation to its borders with Arab states, with the "moderate Muslim Brotherhood and t...

Even if Iran cooperates with nuclear negotiations, it will not cover up the repression of Iranians - not least the Bahai community....

The Iranian state news channel, Press TV, has applied to the German media authority in Berlin-Brandenburg for a broadcasting license, while in Bavaria, the satellite company SES Astra has been ordered to stop its broadcasting. The Iranian channel was also banned in the UK in January 2012 but is currently aired by 14 other broadcasters throughout the world....

With the West asking the Iranian regime to stop its enrichment of uranium and to close its military facilities, Iran feels it has a stronger hand than ever before. In several articles in the Iranian newspaper Kayhan – known as the mouthpiece of the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei – the authors argue that the West must stop its policy of sanctions, which they regard as illegal....

This study examines both Iranian politicians’ Holocaust denial and antisemitic propaganda as well as antisemitic arguments made by state financed ideological institutions. It is demonstrated that Holocaust denial is only a prelude to propagating the totalitarian ideology of Israel’s destruction. The primary utopian goal of the Islamist ideology remains the Re-Islamisation of the Islamic world with the long-term goal of the Islamisation of the...