Egypt has lately intensified its criticism of Iran, as reflected in statements by Egyptian officials and articles in the government press warning about Iran's expanding influence and growing interference in the Arab world. In his speech at the opening of the parliament's winter session, President Hosni Mubarak said: "We warn against Iran's interference in Arab affairs. We will not hesitate to take a stance that opposes the attempts to destabilize Egypt and protects its national security, which ...
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Introduction A few days before the Hajj (November 25-30, 2009), Iranian officials deliberately intensified statements calling on Shi'ites, and all Hajj pilgrims to Mecca, to conduct baraa - a kind of political protest against the infidels and apostates instituted by the founder of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - against the U.S. and the Saudi Wahhabis, whom Iran currently claims are slaughtering Shi'ites in Yemen. 1 During the baraa ceremony, pilgrims demonstrate ...
The current clashes between the Saudi security forces and the Houthi rebels who have infiltrated Saudi Arabia from Yemen have intensified the steadily escalating conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which is part of the cold war in the Middle East between the pro-Saudi camp and the pro-Iranian camp. Saudi Arabia and Yemen accuse Iran of encouraging, training, funding, and arming the Houthi rebels. Iran 's goals, they claim, are to increase its regional influence and to undermine their ...
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Hamas' August 14, 2009 deadly attack on the Salafi Ibn Taymiyya mosque in Rafah, which resulted in the death of Sheikh Abu Al-Nour and many of his followers, 1 sparked an intense clash between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the Palestinian media. Hamas Legislative Council member Dr. Yunis Al-Astal, known for his extremist views, penned a justification for the attack, calling the Salafis "the greatest threat" to Hamas. Also in his article, he renounced democracy, defended Hamas' tahdiah ...
In his address to the 64th U.N. General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad harshly criticized the Western capitalist and liberal worldview, which, he said, was based on materialism, spreads inequality, oppression, and poverty, and is the source of wars and injustice in the world. He claimed that this worldview had caused humanity to distance itself from the rival worldview of divine values and morality, which is based on belief in God and which advances equality, justice and ...
In an article marking the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, senior Pakistani journalist Suhail Qalandar claims that the attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. in order to capture Afghanistan's natural resources. Suhail Qalandar, Peshawar city resident editor of Pakistan 's mass-circulation Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Express , has been critical of the Taliban in the recent past, despite threats to his own life. His article, titled "Eight Years of 9/11," was published in Roznama Express . ...
