What Behind Zealous Israeli Support for Kurdish Independence Referendum in Iraq?

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last week visit of the Latin American countries and talks with the Argentina president supported establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, and said that Tel Aviv backed the aspirations of the Iraqi Kurds for statehood. In...

Imam Hussain�s Revolution

The story of Karbala’ begins with the birth of Husayn. The Holy Prophet had shown affection and love for his grandson as any grandfather should show,but there was something more positive and profound in this love. Several times when Husayn entered the mosque as a small child the Holy Prophet will...

Imam al-Husayn�s Sanctuary

By: Ayatullah Shaheed Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim In the previous section on pilgrimages to the tombs of the Holy Imams (‘a), we have cited the great reward and merits of visiting the tomb of Imam al-Husayn (‘a), the Master of Martyrs. This pilgrimage acquires a distinctive importance...

Perspective: On The Month Of Muharram, Ashura and Imam Hussain�s sacrifice

 As we draw close to the Day of Ashura, millions across the world - not all Muslims, will walk that treacherous road that led to the demise of Imam Hussain ibn Ali, the master of the youths of paradise. While many will mourn, and so they should, one must too ponder over the validity of our collective...

White House staffers begin looking for other jobs: Report

A growing number of staffers at the White House are starting to look for other jobs to leave the administration of Republican President Donald Trump due to low morale, uncertainty and continued infighting among aides, according to a new report. Staffers from the National Economic Council, the...

A lie about the IRGC�s anti-Semitic tendencies, an allegation of the IRGC�s support for terrorism

 History has clearly shown that Washington is afraid of IRGC. The force that presents figures such as the martyr Hojaji and a picture of him, while willingly and resolutely prepared for martyrdom, affects the world. Dr.Sajad.Abadi / Visiting Professor at the University of Saint Joseph of...

Noble Peace Prize: Discriminatory, Serving West�s Interests

The Noble Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, the Swiss social activist who founded the Red Cross, and Frederick Passy, the French economist who was one of the founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the chief organizer of the first International Peace Congress. The international...

Human Rights Violations in UAE

 The human rights condition in the UAE has constantly been subject to criticism coming from various international rights groups and organizations. The citizens in the United Arab Emirates are granted no rights for voting, electing their government, or joining a political party. The Persian Gulf...

Russia-Belarus War-Games Continue as US Tanks Arrive in Poland

The scheduled Russia-Belarus Zapad-2017 military drills are on course while United States has deployed its tanks in neighboring Poland. Up to 12,700 servicemen (about 7,200 from Belarus and some 5,500 from Russia) are taking part in the Zapad-2017 drills, which kicked off on Thursday and are expected...

What�s behind Pakistani FM Visit to Iran, Turkey?

 The Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif visited Iran and Turkey in past few days to discuss ways to settle the Afghan crisis, less than a month after Islamabad-Washington tensions escalated over the new US strategy in Afghanistan. The American President Donald Trump has recently announced...

Israeli Settlements: Facts about Dangerous Strategy

The Israeli settlements are built in the occupied Palestinian lands as part of strategy to Judaize various Palestinian regions and facilitate more land seizures. The settlement projects have had highly strategic place in the Israel�s calculations since foundation of the regime in 1948. Tel Aviv found...

Russo-Saudi Closeness: What Are Two Sides� Goals?

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Saudi Arabia on Sunday for talks with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir in Jeddah. The trip also saw the Russian FM meeting the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz who is scheduled to visit Moscow in October to be the first Saudi monarch to visit Russia...

US has become more an �oligarchy than a democracy�: Jimmy Carter

Former US President Jimmy Carter has warned that money in politics has made the United States more like an "oligarchy than a democracy" and described President Donald Trump�s foreign and domestic policies as a failure. Speaking on Tuesday at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the 39th president...

Why US Seeks Brokering Taliban-Afghan Govt. Peace Talks?

The US Assistant Secretary of State and Acting Special Representative to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia Affairs Alice Wells has told the Voice of America news agency that Washington has put to work its efforts to prepare the ground for negotiations between the Afghanistan government and the...

The Revolutionary Guards and Explaining Revolutionary Discourse

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is a guardian of the Islamic Revolution and its achievements. An important part of these achievements is defined in the cultural and social sphere. In that sense, the Revolutionary Guard must defend the identity of the Islamic Iran in a new age that is the era of...

Was Saudi Arabia Involved in 9/11 Attacks?

New evidence submitted in a lawsuit against the Saudi regime shows that its embassy in Washington may have funded a 9/11 "dry run" by two Saudis. As reported by the New York Post, the embassy might have used two of its employees for the so-called dry run before a dozen hijackers flew two planes into...

Disappointed Saudis Seek Face-saving Yemen War Exit

The Saudis cannot win the war they launched against the neighboring Yemen two-and-a-half-Year ago due to the resistant nation�s strong inclination to maintain its dignity. Saudi Arabia�s decision to launch a bloody aggression on Yemen was a disastrous mistake, and its expenses are increasingly dragging...

Ghadir Khumm and the Orientalists

The 18th of Dhu ‘l-Hijja is celebrated in the Shi’a world as the ‘idd of Ghadir Khumm in which Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said about Imam ‘Ali: “Whomsoever’s master (mawla) I am, this ‘Ali is also his master.” This event is of such significance to the...

Ghadir Tradition: The Expressive Evidence for Guardianship

Prepared by Islamic Sciences and Researches Group Qom Unprecedented offence! In the open political climate recently established in the country, a number of Sunnite Molavi in the southern parts of the country, have started their offence to the Shiite beliefs (state’s official school) in contrary...

The Famous Sermon of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) in Ghadir Khum

Non-Muslims who like to attack Islam accuse the Prophet of Islam of having neglected to name his successor, not knowing that he actually did exactly so in accordance with the Divine order which he had received on Thul-Hijja 17, 10 A.H./March 18, 632 A.D., announcing the name of his successor the...

Biography of Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud [1] Ahmad Shah Massoud was born 10.06.1332 (01.09.1953)[2] in Jangalak[3]/ Panjsher[5]as son of police commander Dost Mohammad Khan. At the age of five, he started grammar school at Bazarak and stayed there until second grade. Since his...

Moscow�s Tools in Face of Washington�s Hegemony

 The signs of growing chill in the US-Russia relations are on the rise, and the range of challenges troubling bilateral ties of the two powers is broadening day by day. The challenges play out in a range of conflict of views over the ways to deal with the deep-rooted West Asian crises, the American...

US Navy SEALs training South Korean �assassination� squad to take out Kim: Report

US Navy SEALs who purportedly killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will train South Korean commanders to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the event of war, according the Times of London. The report comes amid rising tensions between North Korea and the United States following Pyongyang�s...

US New Afghan Strategy Impairs Afghan Gov., Heralds Long-term Stay

 As the US unveiled its new strategy in Afghanistan in late August, revealing controversial powers granted to the American forces has drown reaction and rejection of the Afghan government. The leverages, according to the American President Donald Trump, will allow the American commanders to launch...

The United States viewpoint on the new regional security order in the Middle East

By Sajad Abedi "Geopolitical recognition is part of an old technique that emphasizes geography as the main determinant of the behavior of a state is stressed." (Graham Fuller).From a traditional point of view, the location of a country, its neighbors, communication axes, and physical resources are considered...

Yemeni Partners Reach Deal to Defuse Tensions, Continue Resistance

Spokesman to Yemen’s Ansarullah movement Mohammad Abdulsalam said that the movement has reached an agreement with the General People’s Congress (GPC) party to defuse the tensions recently erupted between the two Yemeni sides. The news reports from Yemen suggest that the accord has been...

Russia Blasts US Hostility, Occupation of Its Diplomatic Properties

Russia has condemned the occupation of its diplomatic properties in the US as a “blunt act of hostility”. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Washington is violating international law and the Vienna Convention by the move. Searches of the Russian premises began on Saturday,...

Reverse Migration Could Eventually Dismantle Israeli Regime

The Israeli regime has always been struggling to introduce Palestine to the world as the promised land of the Jews, whose immigration to the Palestinian territories has been one of the most crucial ways for the founders of the Israeli regime and its later leaders to establish and bolster a Jewish state...

Zionism Influence in China

 In recent years, Israeli regime has seen its worst conditions as the United Nations organs and some countries recognized an independent state of Palestine on the one hand and on the other hand popular pressures across the Western countries, where the governments are the leading patrons of the Israelis,...

Understanding Afghanistan's Haqqani Network

 One of the leading insurgent groups in Afghanistan is the Haqqani Network. Since occupation of the country in 2001, the group has been held accountable for some of attacks against the American forces in the capital Kabul. An ally of Taliban, Haqqani Network is also blamed for a wide range of assaults...