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Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, on July 26, 2017 (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran’s ‘Nuclear’ Facing Mysterious Fate

by Adel Alsalmi, Maaz Al-Omari | Jul 27, 2017 | World

London, Washington- Simultaneous statements issued from Washington and Iran on Wednesday uncovered a shady future of the 2015 Iran nuclear accord after the US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday on a new list of sanctions against Tehran. Iranian President Hassan...

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Confiscated opium on display in Zahedan, Iran. Reuters/Caren Firouz

Iran: Increased Number of Addicts Pushes Toward Bill on Drugs

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 24, 2017 | World

London- Days after the Judicial Committee of the Iranian Parliament’s House spokesman Hassan Norouzi approved a bill that would allow the Iranian government to distribute drugs among addicts, an official in the Expediency Discernment Council of the System...

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Firas Kazaz, a Palestinian muezzin — the person appointed to recite the Muslim call to prayer — calling for prayer from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, Nov. 21, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli Knesset Gives Initial Approval to Anti-adhan Bill

by Nazir Majli | Mar 9, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv- The Israeli Knesset gave a preliminary approval on Wednesday to a bill that would ban the use of loudspeakers to amplify the Muslim call to prayer (adhan). The Knesset’s majority voted in favor of two measures because those who have introduced the bill...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a statement from his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko after a session of the Supreme State Council of Russia-Belarus Union State in Minsk, Belarus, February 25, 2016. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin

Moscow Frets Media Restrictions after EU Bill on Disinformation

by Taha Abed alWahed | Nov 28, 2016 | Media

Moscow- A wide wave of contempt hit Russian state institutions after the European Union parliament passed a resolution on counteracting Russia’s state-sponsored propaganda. During its Nov.23 session, 394 European parliamentarians supported the bill, while 179...

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Mosque Minaret in Palestine (AFP)

Imams’ Mosques will not Apply Israeli Bill to Silence Calls to Prayer

by Kifah Ziboun and Nazir Majli | Nov 15, 2016 | Middle East

Tel Aviv and Ramallah – Palestinian leaders and imams’ mosques denounced Israeli draft bill to silence call to prayer, saying it is racist and threatens Muslims’ right to freely practice their faith. Sheikh Yusuf Baz, Imam of Lodd Mosque, said that this bill is...