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Image of Navvab Safavi being escorted to court by Iranian police. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Iran and the Ikhwan: Assassinations, Pamphlets and Meetings

by Amir Taheri | Jun 7, 2014 | Features

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The young man had been waiting for hours before his “target” came out of his house. “Could we have a word?” the young man demanded, stepping in front of the older man. “Let’s have more than a word while I walk to work,” the old man replied. The...

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) welcomes his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi during a meeting on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran on August 30, 2012 . (SAJAD SAFARI/AFP/GettyImages)

Iran and the Ikhwan: The ideological roots of a partnership

by Amir Taheri | May 31, 2014 | Features

One sizzling summer day in 2012, Tehran was abuzz with talk of an impending “historic moment.” The venue was the brand-new Hall of Conferences, constructed to host the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement during which Egypt was scheduled to hand over leadership to the...

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An Iranian boy stands among Shi’ite Muslim worshippers attending the weekly Friday prayer on May 16, 2014, at the university of the Iranian capital, Tehran. (AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE)

Bigger is Better

by Arash Aramesh | May 24, 2014 | Majalla Blogs

Not too long ago, Iranian state television aired a documentary on what it said was an “exemplary family” and a “special home.” The family’s home was simple, as one would expect in a rural village in northwestern Iran. The family’s income, like that of most other...

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Gates to a house are seen in flood waters in urban landscape in the flooded Somerset village of Moorland February 16, 2014. British ministers will meet representatives of the insurance industry on Tuesday, February 18, who will brief them on their progress in dealing with victims of winter floods across southern England. Some areas of […]

Opinion: How did the Arab Spring get to Britain?

by Bakir Oweida | Feb 21, 2014 | Opinion

How did the Arab Spring reach British homes? Did the Brits not have enough to handle, what with the unprecedented storms that lashed the British coastline and caused extensive flooding, isolating tens of thousands of homes and leaving their inhabitants helpless? The...