Author: Mojtaba Mousavi
Iran’s Elections: Vote Yes or No, Just Be Sure To Vote
The Iranian leadership has a talent of mobilizing people when it is needed. From the 8-year Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) when many Iranians under 16 (the legal age of military recruiting), falsified their birth certificates to volunteer in the “Holy Defense”, to the mass support of Iran’s nuclear program and high turnouts in lots of elections, the people’s presence has always emboldened the leadership’s authority in the international arena and increased its bargaining power.
A Deeper Look At The Iranian Leader’s New Year’s Speech
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, The supreme leader of Iran on March 21, 2013 (Persian year 1392), in his most important annual speech which he makes on the first day of each Persian New Year, evaluated sanctions against Iran and their effects on the country during this last year (1391).
Iran not Yet Responded to P5+1 Proposal
One day after Almaty, Kazakhstan Talks Ali Baqeri, Iran’s Deputy Senior Negotiator in nuclear talks with the so called P5+1 group comprising the United State, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany, said in an interview with Iranian state TV that his country expects the group “to officially announce that they recognize Iran’s Nuclear rights.”
Son of an Israeli General: ‘Peace can only come without a Jewish state’
Born in 1961 in Jerusalem and to a father who served as a prominent general in the Israeli army during the Six-Day-War, Miko Peled is a Peace activist and an advocate for Palestinians’ rights. The author of “The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine,” has openly criticized the apartheid Israeli regime everywhere in his speeches and called for coming down of the Separation Wall and establishing a democracy in the Palestinian land.
Has the Road to a Political Solution for the Palestinian Crisis Reached a Dead-end?
Iran suggests that all current and former inhabitants of the Palestinian territory should participate in a referendum and decide about their fate and future. Iran’s leader described the country’s suggestion in his Inaugural Speech at the 16th Non-Aligned Summit