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The attack on two Saudi supertankers on the Red Sea on Wednesday, July 25, was orchestrated by the Iranian Saviz, a weapons-carrying spy ship, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report.
Disguised as an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel, the 16,660-ton ship carries containers aboard and below decks filled with advanced surveillance gear for tracking commercial and military shipping on the Red Sea. Western and Middle East naval sources have for some weeks been watching the Saviz in a holding pattern between its home base on the Eritrean Dahlak archipelago and the Bab al-Mandeb Straits of the Red Sea. Read More »

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we look at the consequences of another sharp decline in the value of Iranian rial against the US dollar, and the blustering of the Revolutionary Guard against the Trump administration, and ask our guests Maysam Mehrani and Maziar Shakori if the Guards are the real powerhouse in Iran?
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We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.
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In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we speak to our guests Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Mr. Hassan Shariatmadari and ask their opinions about:

Ghassem Soleimani’s tirade of taunts against president Trump;

US new threats against the Iranian regime;

Who wants a war?
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by John Limbert

“The angry Mojahed lies in ambush in the alley,
American, come out. Your blood will flow on the ground.”

Thus sang the militants of the Iranian opposition group MEK (Mojahedin-e-Khalq) to a catchy Kurdish folk tune. Now the same group—rebranding itself as democratic and pluralistic—presents itself as the best alternative to the current reactionary theocracy. In so doing, it has purchased support from Americans on both left and right, including the current national security advisor, the president’s personal attorney, and the former speaker of the House of Representatives. Read More »

By Nasser Karimi | APJuly 25 at 5:55 AM

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has replaced the governor of the central bank as the country’s currency continues its downward spiral to record lows, state media reported Wednesday. Read More »

Mr. President Maurer,

Iranian prisoner and human rights defender, Arash Sadeghi has been diagnosed with a bone tumor that may be cancerous. He is critically ill, and the Iranian authorities are disregarding medical advice, on the orders of the Revolutionary Guards, that recommends his immediate transfer to a facility specializing in cancer treatment. Read More »

In tonight’s edition of Behind the Headlines program:

Why the ruling Iranian clerics prefer to go to Europe to treat their Inguinal hernia instead of providing medical care for the children victims of the Shinabad fire disaster?

Why we should prevent the flow of US dollar into Iran?

Why music concerts in Iran are cancelled minutes before they start?

Could ayatollah Ahmad Khatami ever play in the Swan Lake Ballet?

Why we do not need to plant any tree in Iran?

And many other burning questions.

Stay with us.

With the hope of a better tomorrow.

We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.
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We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.
Read More »