The State Department on Monday urged social media companies to suspend the social media accounts of Iran’s leaders after they cut access to the Internet amid widespread protests in the country.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei attacked Israel on Monday, labelling it a “malignant cancerous tumour” in a Tweet.
Contents: Iran’s younger generations propel Rouhani to decisive presidential win; Brief generational history of Iran and Saudi Arabia; Donald Trump gets royal treatment visiting Saudi Arabia
Contents: Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defies Supreme Leader and runs for president; Ahmadinejad waits for the appearance of the Mahdi
Contents: Iran’s ‘moderate pragmatist’ Hashemi Rafsanjani dies at age 82; Is Rafsanjani’s death a victory for Iran’s hardliners?
Contents: South Africa’s withdrawal throws future of International Criminal Court into doubt; Is the ICC racially biased against Africans?; The fallacy of prosecuting war crimes
Contents: Syria’s al-Assad goes for the kill, turning Aleppo and civilians to bloody rubble; Responses to reader comments
Contents: Two million Muslims — but no Iranians — begin the Hajj pilgrimage on Friday; Saudi Arabia makes a dangerous accusation – that Iranians are ‘not Muslims’; Obama warns China not to ignore the Hague tribunal ruling on South China Sea
Contents: Syrian regime drops chlorine-laded barrel bomb on Aleppo market; From 2013: The history of how Syria’s Bashar al-Assad created ISIS
Contents: Stephen K. Bannon is named chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign; Furious UN envoy Staffan de Mistura excoriates Syria’s Bashar al-Assad; Six years of UN envoys and Syrian peace talks
Contents: Iran furious at Palestinian meeting with Iran opposition group; Maryam Rajavi: Leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO); Negative interest rates creating increased anxiety
Contents: Behind the scenes in the Iran nuclear deal; The Arab world is disintegrating into war; Saudi Arabia conducts major anti-terrorism sweep against ISIS; Massive bomb attack in Iraq market kills over 130
Contents: Fistfight breaks out at Yemen peace talks in Geneva; Report: Iran’s Supreme Leader has fired Qassam Soleimani in Syria; Emergency Eurogroup summit called for Monday to deal with likely Greece default
Contents: China’s military confronts US surveillance plane in South China Sea; Claims of ISIS activities in Pakistan doubted by officials; Iran’s Supreme Leader rules out any nuclear inspections
Saudi Arabia declares that it’s met its military objectives in Yemen; Patriotism and nationalism surge in Saudi Arabia, but not in Iran
Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp descends into the ‘deepest circle of Hell’; Palestinians flip-flop on Syrian action in Yarmouk refugee camp; Europe demands list of reforms from Greece after numerous delays; Iran’s demands on sanctions threaten to unravel nuclear deal
ISIS pushes closer to Damascus through Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp; Texts of Iran nuclear deal differ in English and Farsi versions; Kenya’s president: terrorists are ‘deeply embedded’ in Kenya
Desperate John Kerry looks for a nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday; President Obama to update George Bush’s ‘Roadmap to Mideast Peace’
Almost all mosques have been destroyed in Central African Republic; Russia finally begins to grasp the danger posed by ISIS
Yemen suicide bombings bring sectarian civil war closer; Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘no Palestinian state’ scandal exposes political fantasies
Is Vladimir Putin spending time with his girlfriend and love child?; Fighting heats up on Myanmar (Burma) border with China; Report: Iran’s Supreme Leader has already vetoed any nuclear deal
Iran elects hardliner to head Assembly of Experts; Greece’s deflationary spiral continues with consumer prices down 2.2%; European Central Bank tries desperate measure to fight deflation
Khamenei’s illness may signal generational policy change in Iran; Palestinians vote to end security agreement with Israel
Citigroup: Oil could plunge to $20 per barrel; Iran’s threatens oil transports, blaming Saudis for falling oil prices; More on the growing Muslim versus Muslim wars
In September, the al-Houthi militias moved south and captured Sanaa, the nation’s capital, ousting the Sunni-led government. Since then, they’ve continued to take control of additional mainly Sunni provinces, and it’s now thought that the al-Houthis control about 70% of the army’s capabilities.
