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23 April 2013
EU and Egypt: realpolitik vs. human rights
Valentina Colombo examines EU policy towards Egypt in light of recent sectarian violence.
The EU’s High Representative, Catherine Ashton, was visiting Cairo when, during the funeral service for four Egyptian Christians who were recently killed, violence broke out once again between Coptic Christians and Muslims around St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, in the Abbasiyya quarter. Two people died and some 80 were wounded.
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18 April 2013
Iranian cleric says house arrests don’t exist in Islam
Iranian cleric says reformist politicians Mir Hussein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi are not under house arrest....
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17 April 2013
Iranian regime targets actresses
The Iranian regime is using the help of Interpol to track Iranian actresses....
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Article
09 April 2013
No stop for Iran’s nuclear ambitions
On the occasion of Iran's "national day of atomic technology", President Ahmadinejad warns that no state is capable of halting its nuclear programme. Are negotiations doomed to fail?...
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Article
05 April 2013
No word on Iranian agent detained in Bulgaria
During preparations for an attack on a synagogue, an Iranian al-Quds Brigade is arrested in Sofia....
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Article
04 April 2013
I used to be an Islamist
EFD Programme Director Ahmad Mansour tells of how he turned his back on the allure of religious fundamentalism....
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Article
04 April 2013
The Little Girls’ Revolution
The tragic death of an 8 year-old girl sparks passing of Child Protection Law in the United Arab Emirates....
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Article
03 April 2013
How Islamists deny the Holocaust
A leading Iranian newspaper claims the Jewish festival of Purim was a holocaust committed against the Persians....
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Article
26 March 2013
Does the key to Tehran lie in Moscow?
In the below article, EFD Fellow, Wahied Wahdat-Hagh draws attention to Russian-Iranian relations, which could represent an alternative to the Iranian-American dialogue in solving the nuclear issue....
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Article
22 March 2013
What is the future for US-Iranian relations?
Today Iran enjoys the prospect of improved relations with Russia, yet hope for dialogue with the US looks set to remain bleak....
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16 March 2013
Losing influence in Africa, Morocco has to change its policy
In the below article, EFD Senior Fellow, Bakary Sambe discusses how growing Turkish influence within West Africa is leaving regional powers such as Morocco looking further south for new opportunities....
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Article
15 March 2013
Acceptance or resistance? Iran’s nuclear ambitions
Iranian scholar says that the West must accept Iran's nuclear programme if it wants to avoid war....
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Broadcast
15 March 2013
Salafism as a danger to society
EFD Policy Advisor Ahmad Mansour talks about the appeal and danger of Salafism
On March 15, the Forum Emanzipatorischer Islam, along with the support of the European Foundation for Democracy hosted an evening of discussion on Salafism. EFD Policy Advisor Ahmad Mansour talks about the appeal and danger of the Islamic fundamentalist movement especially to young people.
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08 March 2013
Iran: Children under Pressure to Convert
Harassment against Bahai schoolchildren is on the rise, as Iranian schoolteachers are given instructions from the state to pressure children to covert to Islam....
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Article
07 March 2013
A nuclear train without brakes
The historical narrative paints a clear picture that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and shows no signs of being deterred. EFD Fellow, Wahied Wahdat-Hag deals with this issue showing the failure of UN nuclear negotiations with Iran....
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07 March 2013
Iran: Violence against the Bahai goes unpunished (Part 1)
The Bahai religious minority has been victimised for more than 30 years by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Bahai International Community has published a new report entitled, “Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran’s Bahai Community”....
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Article
01 March 2013
Iran: Farmer rebellion due to water scarcity
In areas of Iran people are suffering from water scarcity. This recently sparked off a farmer rebellion in Ishafan, where insurgents burned down buses and attacked a police station to free arrested farmers....
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Article
01 March 2013
Sedighi: “Iran will never give up its right to enrich uranium”
Iranian cleric declares that only Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic revolution, can decide how much uranium Iran is going to enrich....
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Article
01 March 2013
The West and the Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring
Few observers foresaw the Arab Spring, but it should not have surprised anyone that the Islamist movements became the main beneficiaries of the ensuing turmoil....
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Article
28 February 2013
Iranian regime: “P5+1 must change its policy”
According to the Iranian regime, the group of 5 plus 1 must change its policy and not Iran....
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26 February 2013
Hezbollah Worried; Europe Should be Too
For years, European countries pushed off the issue of adding Hezbollah to the European Union’s list of banned terrorist groups, citing the fact that the group had not carried out terrorist attacks on the continent since the 1980s. Sure, it raised funds across the continent hand-over-first, and provided logistical support to operatives carrying out attacks elsewhere, but that fell below the European threshold of bombs exploding in Europe. But in...
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25 February 2013
Hezbollah: Calling a spade a spade
Being its activities designated as terrorist in most EU countries, "Hezbollah remains confident that the influence of Germany and France will see to it that the EU will not proscribe the group"....
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Article
21 February 2013
Iran’s desperate call for “economic jihad”
EFD Fellow Wahied Wahdat-Hagh discusses how Iran's call for "economic jihad" points to serious concern among the Iranian authorities....
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Article
21 February 2013
Sham elections for a new form of totalitarian rule
Various Islamist groups in Iran are engaged in power struggles but all of them are part of the establishment of the Islamist dictatorship. All other secular groups, from socialists and communists, to nationalist and royalist are either forbidden or heavily persecuted....
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19 February 2013
It’s time to brand Hizbollah a terror organisation
Hizbollah has turned out to be an important player in the international terror scene – which is why Europe finally has to take measures....
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15 February 2013
Iranian newspaper praises German paper Freitag
Iranian newspaper Kayhan praises a German newspaper Freitag for defending the views of the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei. The newspaper, owned by Jakob Augstein, recently published an article about the Iranian-US dialogue shining a positive light on Iran’s actions....
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05 February 2013
Iran-supported Lebanese Hezbollah carries out terrorist attack in Europe
Bulgarian authorities have established a link between Hezbollah and the Burgas bus bombing. Former Iranian General Mohssen Rezai praises Lebanese Hezbollah as an organisation founded by Iranian revolutionaries....
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29 January 2013
Iranian Foreign Minister warns the West
Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, will attend a security conference in Munich 1st-3rd February 2013. While there, he will also speak at the German Council of Foreign Relations. According to him, Israel is the biggest problem in the Middle East, not terrorism....
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Article
27 January 2013
The embassy isn’t safe anymore
EFD Senior Policy Advisor Magnus Norell reports on the security situation in northern Africa....
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24 January 2013
Iran: Public executions and amputations
Iran executes thieves to spread fear and terror among the Iranian people. However, it is more than a little doubtful that such harsh punishments will enable the regime to solve the social problems it faces....
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Article
24 January 2013
Russia’s many interests in Syria
EFD Fellow Anna Borshchevskaya discusses Russia's determination to support the Assad regime in Syria....
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23 January 2013
Chair of the Iranian parliament: Israel is a “cancerous tumour”
Ali Larijani, chairperson of the Iranian pseudo-parliament, attended the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union (IIPU) in Khartoum, Sudan on 21st and 22nd January, where he defended the Assad regime and spoke of Israel as a “cancerous tumour”....
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21 January 2013
Hezbollah’s time is up
In addition to the European Union proscribing Hezbollah, NATO must also enforce a buffer zone between Lebanon and Israel....
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Article
10 January 2013
Made in Iran: Islamist anti-Semitism
It has been reported by Farsnews that an anti-Semitic cartoon festival on the Holocaust is being organised in response to Charlie Hebdo's latest move....
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09 January 2013
Iranian leader Ali Khamenei maintains that in no other country elections are as free as in Iran
EFD'S Wahied Wahdat-Hagh discusses Ali Khamenei's statement: "Stop constantly saying that elections must be free"....
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21 December 2012
Iran is in social and economic meltdown
With unemployment soaring and the advent of hyperinflation, the plight of ordinary workers just gets worse and worse....
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