Iranian youth have become increasingly frustrated by the social restrictions that hard-liners have brought into their everyday lives. The restrictions are everywhere, women have to obey an Islamic dress code, music is prohibited, and people are jailed for drinking alcohol. read more… »

Crude oil prices went on a record-setting surge Friday as fears of a new Middle East conflict were fanned by comments from a top Israeli official about Iran. read more… »

Engagement doesn’t always produce marriage. In the U.S.-Iran case, diplomatic engagements have been repeatedly disastrous. Yet many think the idea of engagement was just invented and never tried. Engagement, without pressure or threat, benefits the weaker side. read more… »

Islamic regime of Iran can pursue their cause of death and destruction by simply providing their killers with dirty bombs in a suitcase. Given the Mullahs’ fanaticism and Machiavellian nature, they would come up with a myriad of clever schemes to achieve their objectives. read more… »

A top Israeli official has said that if Iran continues with its alleged nuclear arms programme, Israel will attack it. read more… »

Amnesty international

Between 200 and 300 Iranian Turkmen living in the coastal province of Golestan, near the city of Bandar-e Torkman, were arrested after the killing of an Iranian Turkmen fisherman by maritime security officers on 28 December 2007. read more… »

Martin Luther King did not accept the decisions that were made for him by others. The history had decided his place in the society but he was not satisfied with that place and therefore, he changed the course of history by changing first himself and his own beliefs. read more… »

Barack Obama told America’s powerful pro-Israel lobby: I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything. I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel. read more… »

Iran’s problem is not with Saudi Arabia or Egypt only, as Damascus is trying to convince us, rather; it is with all the countries in the Arab world, Iran’s problems extend to the Gulf States and include occupation and destabilization operations, among other practices, and the same applies to Lebanon, Yemen and other states. read more… »