Category: khamenei
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Trump is taking cue from Nixon’s Madman Theory in his Iran approach – opinion
Trump appears to be emulating the madman approach with Iran. It can be very risky because he lacks Nixon’s mental tools, and he has no Henry Kissinger or anyone even close. By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD NOVEMBER 21, 2024 04:38 Updated: NOVEMBER 21, 2024 04:46 IRAN’S AMBASSADOR Amir Saeid Iravani speaks with diplomats after a UN Security…
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Does he have prostrate cancer, is he in coma? Rumors swirl on Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s health
Does he have prostrate cancer, is he in coma? Rumors swirl on Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s health The FeedLast Updated: Nov 21, 2024, 04:24:00 AM IST Synopsis Recent rumors about the health of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been largely dispelled, but questions remain about the future leadership of Iran. At…
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How to wrestle with an ayatollah
IranSource November 20, 2024 • 9:33 am ET Khosro Sayeh Isfahani The air ripples with the rhythm of hand drums as wrestlers dance and twirl around the battleground to songs of Persian poetry and religious incantation. They engage in flyting, a form of trash talk through poetry. Then they grapple each other and wait for…
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Dispatch from the desert: Trump’s first global test is Iran
QASR AL SARAB—The online rumor had mobile phones lighting up across an international gathering of government officials and experts over the weekend at this desert resort in the United Arab Emirates. Could it be true, as some reports on social media indicated, that the Islamic Republic of Iran would soon announce that its eighty-five-year-old supreme…
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Iran vastly increased nuclear fuel stockpile ahead of Trump return, UN agency finds
Iran has increased its nearly weapons-grade uranium, a United Nations watchdog found, defying international demands to rein in its nuclear program. Iran now has enough uranium at 60% purity, just below the 90% purity needed for a weapon, to produce about four nuclear bombs, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report said. The report found…
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Iran’s President calls on Pope Francis to use influence to stop war in Middle East
Updated Nov 20, 2024, 07:27 PM Published Nov 20, 2024, 07:27 PM DUBAI – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian called on Pope Francis to use his influence with Christian governments to stop war in the Middle East, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. “Encourage world leaders, especially Christian governments, to prevent the continuation of aggressions…
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Trump’s intelligence community and Iran’s regime change – opinion
Trump’s return marks a new chapter: a rejection of appeasement and commitment to peace through strength. By ERFAN FARD NOVEMBER 20, 2024 03:56 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the Abraham Accords in 2020. US policies will paralyze the regime in Iran, the writer says. (photo credit: TOM BRENNER/REUTERS) Currently, the…
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Choosing Mojtaba Khamenei as Successor Highlights the Islamic Republic’s Weakness
On November 16, 2024, Iran International, an independent Persian-language newspaper with a track record of major scoops, reported that the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body charged with appointing a new supreme leader upon the death or incapacitation of the sitting leader, has secretly appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to be his…
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Poly-crisis or poly-peace?
Leaders have the power to shape humanity’s global future. We are today confronted with a fracturing world. Humanity has enjoyed relative peace since World War II, but there is a sense now that we have entered a perilous time of upheaval. Some have begun to describe this moment in history as a poly-crisis – one…
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Has Netanyahu developed a new doctrine to finally strike Iran’s nuke program for real? – analysis
Following military successes against Hamas, Hezbollah, Tehran he may be more ready to roll dice with Trump By YONAH JEREMY BOB NOVEMBER 19, 2024 20:23 Updated: NOVEMBER 20, 2024 00:57 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seen following the attack on Iran, October 26, 2024 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO) Prime Minister Benjamin…
