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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...

Hossein Mousavian is playing a cynical game of manipulation on Iran's nuclear programme. We must not fall for it....

April, 2012 will mark 10,000 days that seven leaders of the Baha’i community have spent behind bars in Iran. United4Iran drew attention to their plight in 12 cities across the globe....

Participants in the Global March to Jerusalem approach Israel's borders today and, in the process, become weapons in Iran's foreign policy arsenal....

General Qassem Soleimani Iran is not just anybody. He is commander of the Qods units, classified as a terrorist organisation that is part of the “Guardian of the Islamic Revolution," also known as the Revolutionary Guards. The U.S. government has imposed sanctions against General Soleimani....

The Iranian state news agency IRNA commented on the interview by ZDF Iran journalist Claus Kleber with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The interview is being hailed as a success for the Iranian president....

March 2012, the so-called march to Jerusalem will take place. Many anti-Israeli groups will attempt to cross the Israeli border, from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan and march towards Jerusalem. The Iranian regime supports the action and also calls for the overthrow of Israel....

The NGO Human Rights House of Iran has documented the names of 47 female prisoners, who are only in prison because of their civil society and political activities. 34 of them have been sentenced for a total of 208 years and eight months in prison. 14 women are still in custody awaiting a verdict. The human rights organisation says that the number of women in Iranian prisons for political reasons is far higher. The Islamic judiciary criminalises a...

In recent parliamentary elections, Iranians were only allowed to choose between supporters of the Iranian religious leader Ali Khamenei and supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There is no longer any hope for reform in the context of the totalitarian system. The streets remained calm....

On 2nd February, 2012 an anti-Semitic "Conference on Hollywoodism and Cinema" took place in Tehran and was opened by President Ahamdinejad himself. The Western guests were all extremists with right wing tendencies and who deny the Holocaust....

In the "Islamic Republic of Iran" internal Islamic political power struggles and rivalries are further mired in a corruption scandal that is unprecedented in Iranian history. Namely, the embezzlement of at least USD$2.6 billion....

There has been an ongoing power struggle between Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniya, two leaders of Hamas. In December 2011, Khaled Mashaal decided to leave Syria and partially close the Politburo in Damascus. This was considered by some experts as a break with the Assad regime and Iran. However, Haniya eventually prevailed over Mashaal and chose to maintain relations with Iran. Hamas' politburo in Syria will therefore be maintained....

In an article by former governor of the Iranian island of Kish, Alireza Forqani, he calls for the annihilation of Israel before 2014 and while Ahmadinejad is the president of Iran. The biggest concern is that the article by Forqani, who grew up as a paramilitary Bassij-soldier, was published on two news websites (Alef and Farsnews) with ties to Majless and the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei....

Iran supports terrorist organisations and ignores EU sanctions. On 31st January 2012 Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met the world's top terrorist Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Brigade General Yahya Safawi also encourages terrorist activity to “liberate” Jerusalem....

The propaganda of the Iranian regime is not only intended for the population of the country itself. Broadcasts by "Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting" (IRIB) can be received throughout the world. The station broadcasts in German and in 26 other languages. The programme in German is characterised by anti-Semitic incitement to hatred. IRIB has an office in the German Federal Medias Center in Berlin....

Muslim extremists ambushed and interrupted a conference organised by EFD and called for the death of EFD Senior Fellow Irshad Manji and Tofik Dibi MP, a member of the Green Party in Holland....

Since 1953, Iranian students have been celebrating “Students Day”. This year, the Islamist dictatorship did not allow any demonstrations or meetings. Many student activists were arrested or held captive in private rooms....

In a study by the scientific department of the Majlis, Iran's pseudo-Parliament, which was published in January 2012, it is emphasized that in comparison to the West Iran is in a superior position to conduct an asymmetric war. In such a war Iran would attack vessels intending to pass through the Strait of Hormuz....

Iran continues its uranium enrichment program. This is one of the reasons why Europe is expected to agree on new oil sanctions against Iran in January 2012. But why is it important that some Arab countries don’t sell gasoline to Iran?...

For several years Iran has been warning of a blockade of the Persian Gulf. Such a blockade would damage, above all, the Iranian economy....

Hezbollah is financed not only through direct funds from Iran but also from the drug “business”. According to the U.S. authorities, Lebanese banks are being used to launder dirty drug money. The drugs, primarily cocaine, are sold mainly in the United States....

Members of the paramilitary Basij have been identified among the alleged students, which attacked the British embassy in Tehran. With the campaign the Iranian regime wanted to proof its resolute posture in its fight against the West....

Based on evidence provided by Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, an Iranian official was dismissed from the board of German foundation Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg for advocating the destruction of Israel....

At the moment, there is an intra-Islamic cartoon controversy raging within the Iranian government, partly because of two caricatures published some months ago which allegedly offend "Islamic values". Ali Akbar Javanfekr, the editor of an Iranian government newspaper 'Iran' has been handed down a prison sentence for his trouble....

While Iran supports the Shiite movement in Bahrain in the name of human rights, the U.S. Navy is carrying out joint maneuvers with the Bahraini Marines....