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Opinion: Lebanon – Electoral Escapism From Politics

by Eyad Abu Shakra | May 25, 2016 | Opinion

The Lebanese are surely entitled to celebrate exercising one form of “democracy” provided to them by the municipal and mayoral elections. Of course they are, given that foreign dictates have for almost two years prevented the election of a new president; and that they...

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Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and advisor to the chief of the judiciary on international affairs, who is leading Iran’s delegation, speaks during the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to review Iran’s human rights record, at the (U.N.) European headquarters in Geneva 2014.

Sunni Convicts Facing Hostile Discrimination in Iranian Prisons

by Adil Alsalmi | Mar 24, 2016 | Middle East

London- An Iran-based humanitarian rights agency published a report on Iranian authorities detaining over 70 Sunni activists for allegations on political crimes and compromising homeland security. The report reveals that activists are being held in Gohardasht Prison,...

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Opinion: Time for the Arabs to Get off the Fence

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Mar 22, 2016 | Opinion

A few hours separated two events last week: the Arab League picked a new secretary general, and its foreign ministers labelled Hezbollah of Lebanon a terrorist organization. There is nothing untoward about the appointment of Egypt’s Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as new secretary...

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Yemeni people recieving food aid in Sana’a on March 16 A.F.P

Iranian Fatwa Allows Houthis to Plunder Sunni Organizations

by Arafat Madabish | Mar 17, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Aden- Money plunder in Yemen has increased significantly, and “War expenses” is the only justification presented for large sums of money vanishing. Informed Shi’ite sources exposed Houthi militias appropriating money dedicated to the annual Waqf (inalienable religious...

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Iran’s Arms Are in Pakistan and it Has Established Hundreds of Sectarian Universities and Cultural Centres

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 27, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Iran has sought to expand its influence in Pakistan where people did not often differentiate between Shiites and Sunnis and they intermarried without objections on the grounds of doctrine before Khomeini’s revolution in 1979. However, since the advent of the...