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20 August 2012
Ahmadinejad wants “no trace of America or Zionists” in Middle East
Ahmadinejad is no cleric, but he still took the opportunity to give a hate speech at a Friday prayer meeting held on Quds Day....
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Article
17 August 2012
EU intervention in Syria
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...
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Article
16 August 2012
Iranian leaders threaten Israel with destruction
Ahead of Quds Day Iranian politicians have repeated their calls for the destruction of Israel....
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Article
15 August 2012
Dialogue with anti-Semites: Iranian Islamists at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Part IV)
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....
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Article
08 August 2012
The Anti-Semitic Iranian partner of a German university (Part III)
The University of Religions and Denominations in Qom advocates the anti-American and anti-Semitic state doctrine of the totalitarian dictatorship....
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Article
06 August 2012
Academic collaboration with a college of Islamist propaganda (Part II)
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”....
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Article
02 August 2012
Academic collaboration with a college of Islamist propaganda (Part I)
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....
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Article
23 July 2012
The Iranian regime’s fear of prayer
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....
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Article
18 July 2012
Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz
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....
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Article
12 July 2012
European sanctions and Iran
Representatives of the Iranian regime declare European sanctions to be ineffective as oil revenues decline and discontent grows among the Iranian people....
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Article
06 July 2012
Iran’s desire to ratchet up the Syrian-Israeli conflict
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....
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Article
03 July 2012
Iran’s Bassiji Jihadists as uncontrollable as the atomic bomb
Iran responds to European Union sanctions with military manoeuvres and by threatening to embark on jihadist suicide missions....
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Article
03 July 2012
Mohammed Morsi’s election: has democracy really won the day?
In the below article, EFD Senior Fellow Valentina Colombo discusses 2012 Mohammed Morsi’s election....
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Article
29 June 2012
Exploitation in Iran
Ahmadinejad promised to make oil money flow to Iran’s poor. However, the opposite occurred and Iranian workers are now worse off than before....
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Article
28 June 2012
Anti-Semitism in Iran and International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
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....
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Article
28 June 2012
Iran’s Moral Police combat the “virus” of Western-oriented women
How long will the world continue to look away while Iranian women are oppressed by the systematic, gender-apartheid policies of the Islamist dictatorship?...
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Article
15 June 2012
Iranian scholar warns his government of arrogance
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....
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Article
11 June 2012
Iranian state terrorism? A shot at the apostates
The Iranian regime is actively calling for the killing of those it sees as dissidents....
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08 June 2012
Iran focuses on its relationship with China and Russia
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....
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31 May 2012
Iranian ambassador denies his FTD interview
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....
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Article
29 May 2012
A plea against Salafism
EFD Policy Advisor, Ahmad Mansour's plea against Salafism published in the German daily Die Zeit....
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Article
16 May 2012
Iranian death fatwas issued on Muslims and non-Muslims
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....
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14 May 2012
The West must not rely on Khamenei’s shaky fatwas
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....
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Mention
12 May 2012
An Islamic reformer who can’t be silenced
In the April 5 edition of The New Republic I published an essay called “The Thought Police” on Islamist campaigns to suppress independent thinking, as described in a Hudson Institute human rights report by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea. My essay listed a great number of reformers from Muslim backgrounds who have come under threat or have actually been attacked, with the names drawn largely from Marshall and Shea’s study. I mentioned in pass...
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11 May 2012
Iran: US$ 100 000 for an execution in Germany
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...
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Article
04 May 2012
Iranian study endorses terrorism against Israel
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...
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Article
27 April 2012
Stop state-sponsored genocide and crimes against humanity
Even if Iran cooperates with nuclear negotiations, it will not cover up the repression of Iranians - not least the Bahai community....
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26 April 2012
German media law and Iranian hate propaganda
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....
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Article
20 April 2012
Iran sees itself as victor in nuclear talks
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....
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Article
16 April 2012
Iran: Islamist holocaust denial
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...
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Article
09 April 2012
Deconstructing Iran’s game of nuclear deception
Hossein Mousavian is playing a cynical game of manipulation on Iran's nuclear programme. We must not fall for it....
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Broadcast
04 April 2012
Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood
EFD Senior Fellow Valentina Colombo is interviewed on Russian radio about the Muslim Brotherhood's influence after the Egyptian revolution....
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Article
03 April 2012
10,000 days in prison
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....
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Article
30 March 2012
Iran’s march for “martyrs” to Jerusalem
Participants in the Global March to Jerusalem approach Israel's borders today and, in the process, become weapons in Iran's foreign policy arsenal....
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Article
30 March 2012
Iranian general wants to become a martyr
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....
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26 March 2012
Iranian state news agency (IRNA) on ZDF interview with Ahmadinejad
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....
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