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In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, Lebanese activists stand on wooden ladders remove and clean burned books, at the Saeh (Tourist) Library which was set on fire by masked men, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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In this Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, file photo, Iran’s former reformist President Mohammad Khatami, attends a ceremony organized by his party, a group of pro-reform clerics, in Tehran, Iran, to announce he’ll challenge hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the country’s June 12, 2009, presidential elections. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Opinion: Too popular for his own good?
The failure of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg earlier this month raised a big question for me, because Khatami had previously announced that he planned to take part in the ceremony. Ali Akbar Velayati,...Caption:
A Palestinian boy plays soccer as a mural depicts the Dome of the Rock and a map of British Mandate Palestine, on the gate of al-Sadaka club in Gaza City June 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)
Opinion: Israel is trying to use Iran to distract from the Palestinian issue
The UN has named 2014 as the ‘Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.’ The majority of member states adopted the resolution with 110 voting in favor, seven opposed and 54 abstaining. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced the UN’s solidarity with the Palestinian...Caption:
King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (C) and Iranian politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (L) enter the conference hall ahead of the opening ceremony of the three-day conference of interfaith dialogue with Christianity and Islam at the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on June 4, 2008. (Saudi Press Agency)
Opinion: Saudi Arabia and Iran—and Israel
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is one of the very few Iranian political figures who have had good relations with Saudi Arabia’s leaders. In an interview with the Financial Times on November 26, he said that he was ready to travel to Riyadh and that he had been invited by...Caption:
A Manuscript on the Prophet from Morocco and dated probably on late 17th-early 18th century is displayed at the Nur: Light in art and science in the Islamic world exhibition in Seville, Spain, Friday, Oct 23, 2013. A private museum in the south of Spain is hosting an exhibition of rare Islamic art objects that […]