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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...

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....