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Iranian revolutionary guard soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the Iraqi invasion in 1980, which led to an eight-year-long war (1980-1988) in Tehran, Iran, on September 22, 2013. (EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh)

Opinion: Who is stronger, Khamenei or the IRGC?

by Huda Al Husseini | Sep 28, 2013 | Opinion

The new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, wanted to bolster his public relations campaign by holding out the possibility of a peace treaty—only dreaming of such a treaty makes one comfortable. In the article he published in the Washington Post, Rouhani appeared as if...

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via video during a conference, held in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday May, 9, 2013. (AP Photo)

Opinion: Iran’s emergency plan for post-Assad era in Lebanon

by Huda Al Husseini | Jun 9, 2013 | Opinion

The Syrian regime is acting as if it will survive forever and is seeking to cement ties with its allies for numerous objectives—none of which are positive. Iran and Hezbollah, despite all the evidence that proves they both adhere to the one objective of velayat-e...

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NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopters fly over the city of Mazar-i-Sharif on March 23, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai)

Pakistan and Iran: Dominating Afghanistan

by Huda Al Husseini | Mar 24, 2013 | Opinion

Prior to receiving US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Afghan President Hamid Karzai stressed that “those bombs that went off in Kabul in Khost were not a show of force to America. They were in service of America. It was in service of the 2014 slogan to warn us if...

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A general view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, some 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran in this October 26, 2010 file photo. (R)

Iran’s Nuclear Program, a Pawn in a US-Russian Deal

by Huda Al Husseini | Mar 17, 2013 | Opinion

Iran left the meeting with the P5+1 group (Britain, China, France, Russia, United States, plus Germany) in Kazakhstan—which took place in the country’s former capital Almaty—under the impression that what was offered was both constructive and pragmatic. Eight months...

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In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags, as they parade during the opening of new cemetery for colleagues who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Hezbollah’s Asylum Offer

by Huda Al Husseini | Feb 17, 2013 | Opinion

With Syria’s accelerating and inevitable collapse, Iran’s growing role becomes more and more prominent as it tries to win on all the fronts and draw attention away from its internal problems. Conflicts within Iran are growing as the date of the...