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Newspapers in Iran are heavily censored and often closed down

Iran’s Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles

by Amir Taheri | Nov 24, 2015 | Middle East

In a speech at the Press Expo in Tehran earlier this month, President Hassan Rouhani expressed regret that Iranians have not succeeded in creating a “lasting newspaper.” He wondered why it was that the Times of London was now in the third century of its existence...

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The Vice President and Prime Minister of Yemen Khaled Bahah inspects one of the fronts in Ma’rib with its governor Sultan Al-Arada (Reuters)

Bahah on the Ma’rib Front, and Students in Sana’a Protest against Al-Houthi’s Visit

by Arafat Madabish | Nov 23, 2015 | Middle East

The Vice President and Prime Minister of Yemen Khaled Bahah paid a surprise visit to the Ma’rib governorate, east of the capital Sana’a yesterday. The visit by a high ranking government official was the first of its kind in the region since the outbreak of war in the...

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Opinion: The GCC and Iran- Between Blindness and Hallucination

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 23, 2015 | Opinion

The American Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter in an interview with The Atlantic magazine blamed the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) of not opposing Iran regionally. He said “We see Iran everywhere, but we do not see a Gulf presence”. Contrary to his observation,...

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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle anchored in the eastern Mediterranean in front of the Syrian coast to participate in the war against ISIS (AFP)

France Moves its War against ISIS to Raqqa, and Alarm in Belgium

by Michel Abu Najm | Nov 23, 2015 | World

A week after the bloody attacks that Paris witnessed and which ISIS claimed responsibility for, France yesterday implied that it is moving its fight against this terrorist organisation to ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq. The French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le...

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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) 21/11/15

Opinion: OBAMA’S MIDEAST POLICY: AN OBITUARY BY JOHN KERRY

by Amir Taheri | Nov 21, 2015 | Opinion

The other evening in New York when Secretary of State John Kerry came to talk about President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, everyone thought he had come to praise it. An hour and 6000 words later, it was clear that he had come to bury it. The expected encomium became...