Posts Tagged: Ayatollah Khomeini
The War on Terror: Offense or Defense?
i24 News - Islamic and Palestinian terrorists consider Israel to be a critical beachhead—and proxy—of the United States in the Middle East, and a significant...
Is the World Waking up to the Atrocities of the Ayatollahs?
JNS.org - It is about time the media and the international community woke up to the fact that the Iranian regime is an oppressive, violent...
Tehran on My Mind
Monday marked International Women's Day, and the start of Women's History Month. And Iran is always on my mind when this day comes around. Iran and...
US Officials Question Detroit-Area Imam Who Mourned Soleimani
Weeks after he criticized a US drone strike that killed Iran's top terror mastermind, US Customs officials questioned a Detroit-area imam about his support for...
30 Years Later, the Rushdie Fatwa Is Still Chilling Speech
Thirty years ago, on February 14, 1989, the Iranian cleric and politician Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini formulated his famous fatwa against British author Salman Rushdie. Khomeini sentenced...
Top Tehran Official Taunts Trump, Says ‘Newcomer’ Wouldn’t Dare ‘Press His Luck,’ Suffer ‘Unprecedented Defeat’ by ‘Iron Dam’ of Iran
A top Iranian official taunted US President Donald Trump on Sunday, asserting that the “newcomer” wouldn’t dare “press his luck” by waging war on the...
Iran’s ‘Moderates’ Still Hate America
When talking about politics in Iran, Western media outlets divide the leadership into the “reformists” and the “hardliners.” The reformists are supposed to be the “good guys”...
A Reminder of How Iran Treats Its Jewish Citizens
May 9th marked the 35th anniversary of the "execution" of Iranian-Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian. This prominent figure in Iran's Jewish community was dragged from his...
Obama’s Strategic Mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s Opposition
It has already been established, including in my recently published book The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid, that...
Exposed: Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif Lied in Defense of Khamenei Holocaust Denial
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was caught in a lie by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, when he tried to cover for...
Iranians on Anniversary of Islamic Revolution: Death to America, Death to Israel
Al Arabiya - Hundreds of thousands of people marched on Sunday in Tehran and other cities chanting "Death to America" as Iran marked the...
A Muhammad Cartoon a Day
When Salman Rushdie mocked Islamic sanctities in 1989 in his magical realist novel The Satanic Verses, Ayatollah Khomeini did something shockingly original: He pronounced a death...
How the Presidential Election Could Lead to an Israeli Strike on Iran
National elections have long caught the attention of both domestic and foreign populations, and nowhere has this been more evident than in U.S....
Is Iran Rational?
One of the most difficult questions that the West needs to answer in the year ahead is whether Iranian behavior will be influenced...
