Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Erfan Fard The harshest ever winter in Iran began on January 19,1979. It has lasted 42 years and counting. It was on that fateful…

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Erfan Fard The Islamic republic of Iran is controlled by Khamenei, who has the label of ayatollah that means sign of God in Arabic.…

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,965, March 14, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On February 24, 2021, William J. Burns was confirmed as Joe Biden’s new CIA director. The Iranian mullahs want to use terrorism to coerce Biden into lifting the crippling sanctions imposed by Donald Trump, and wish to continue their covert pursuit of nuclear weapons. Burns is an experienced professional and he is fully aware of the true nature of the Islamic regime. The late Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza…

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,999, April 16, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Khomeinism, the ideology of the Islamic Republic of Iran, encompasses the radical ideas of its founding father Ayatollah Khomeini. Antisemitism is a central tenet of this ideology and the regime has repeatedly threatened to exterminate the Jewish State. As recently as March 7, 2021, Iranian DM Amir Hatami claimed that Tehran has the capacity to “turn Tel Aviv and Haifa into ashes.” In adopting the ideology of Ayatollah Ruhollah…

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Karim Sadjadpour - 03 /25/2021 Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The Islamic Republic needs America as an enemy. The U.S. needs a strategy to win a cold war. Before he became president, Joe Biden spent decades seeking reconciliation in the Middle East. By his second term as vice president, his frustration with feuding nations and factions was palpable. “Notwithstanding all of the hundreds of hours I and others spent with each of their leaders, they didn’t…

By Simon Watkins - Sep 07, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT Trade Oil Futures And Energy Stocks The next phase of the 25-year deal between China and Iran will focus on a large-scale roll-out of electronic espionage and warfare capabilities focussed around the port of Chabahar and extending for a nearly 5,000 kilometer (3,000 mile) radius, and the concomitant build-out of mass surveillance and monitoring of the Iranian population, in line with the standard operating procedure across China, senior sources close…

By Simon Watkins - Jul 06, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT Trade Oil Futures And Energy Stocks Last August, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Zarif, paid a visit to his China counterpart, Wang Li, to present a roadmap on a comprehensive 25-year China-Iran strategic partnership that built upon a previous agreement signed in 2016. Many of the key specifics of the updated agreement were not released to the public at the time but were uncovered by OilPrice.com at the time. Last week,…