Gaddafi’s Warning to Other Dictators: Shoot First & Shoot Them All

Now that Colonel Gaddafi is dead, there’s a lot stuff flying about Twitter along the lines of Are you watching Mr Mugabe/Assad/Ahmadinejad? I’m sure they are. Few people are likely to mourn Gaddafi’s death (more…)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed his Jewish past , report

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret, evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows.

A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. (more…)

Iranian security forces attack protesters says opposition website

Iran’s opposition website Sahamnews said security forces attacked pro-reform demonstrators gathering in Tehran on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the country’s 2009 disputed election.

“Security forces attacked the crowd with electric batons … in the Vali-e Asr street to disperse the demonstrators,” (more…)

Iran protests over U.K. claim of Syria support

Iran summoned Britain’s top diplomat in Tehran Thursday over an “unfounded” suggestion Iran was helping Syria quash pro-democracy protests.

“The remarks of Britain’s foreign secretary [William Hague] are completely unfounded and based on a series of lies,” (more…)

Iran’s supreme leader and president wrestle for power

The dispute between Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei ignites concern that the infighting weakens Iran’s ability to project power internationally amid historic instability in ME

Ayatollah: Iran’s president ‘bewitched’ by senior aide

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came under new pressure Sunday, as an influential cleric charged that he has been “bewitched” by a controversial senior aide and key lawmakers renewed their impeachment threat.

Ahmadinejad is behaving “unnaturally” (more…)

Anger in Iran as natural gas prices increase 10 fold

Iran’s parliament has warned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that resentment is building over sharp increases in the price of natural gas, which has risen at least 10-fold on average in recent weeks, and that public protests could follow. (more…)

Syrian, Saudi leaders to discuss Iran, Iraq, Lebanon

Syria’s ties to Iran, the political void in Iraq and the tensions in Lebanon over the U.N.-backed tribunal.are expected to figure in talks on Sunday when Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah meets Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, analysts and diplomats said.

Announced in Saudi official media, Assad’s second trip to the world’s top oil exporter this year is the latest sign of a thaw in bilateral relations. (more…)

Nasrallah deceived Ahmadinejad about the gun, report

Hezbollah said its leader has given Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an Israeli rifle captured from an Israeli soldier during the 2006 war with Israel as a gift to cap off his two-day visit to Lebanon.

But Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot reported Sunday that Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah deceived the Iranian President. (more…)

Another government critic arrested in Iran

Mehdi Khazali, head of Iran’s Medical Data Bank and son of hardliner, Ayatollah Abolghassem Khazali, was arrested yesterday by Iranian authorities.

According to media sources, Mehdi Khazali, a physician and anti-government blogger, was summoned to Evin Prison yesterday (more…)