October 9, 2009,
By: Michael Rowan; El Universal
Opinion
Fidel Castro wanted a pre-emptive Soviet nuclear strike against the United States in 1982, according to recently disclosed documents of Soviet General Andrian A. Danilevich. Castro was only dissuaded when Soviet scientists explained to him that fallout from the blasts could cause millions of deaths in Cuba itself. [...]
President Obama recieves endorsement from Chavez, Castro, and Gaddafi!
Is the Tripartite Summit simply a photo op for President Obama, or a real attempt at progress?
September 9, 2009; Venezuela
The Islamic Republic of Iran is helping Venezuela to develop a civilian nuclear program as both countries have the right to produce nuclear energy, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez told the conservative French newspaper Le Figaro in an interview published on Wednesday, September 9.
Chávez, an ally of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited [...]
The Emerging Axis of Iran and Venezuela
The prospect of Iranian missiles in South America should not be dismissed.
By ROBERT M. MORGENTHAU
The diplomatic ties between Iran and Venezuela go back almost 50 years and until recently amounted to little more than the routine exchange of diplomats. With the election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, [...]
By MICHAEL FREUND
The Jerusalem Post
For a president who has been in office for just over seven months, Barack Obama can at last point to some meaningful change that he has brought about in the Middle East.
Thanks to his administration’s arm-twisting and bullying of Jerusalem over settlements, Obama has unwittingly succeeded in galvanizing the Israeli [...]
To mark Ramadan, Egyptian fruit sellers have named their best dates of the year after Obama in a tribute to the American leader for his outreach to the Muslim world.
Dates are a traditional food for Ramadan – which begins Saturday in most of the Islamic world – since the Islamic Prophet Muhammad is said to [...]
Visiting Israel this week, Mike Huckabee, who was among the Republican presidential hopefuls in the last election, said: “There is no room for a Palestinian state’ in the middle of the Jewish homeland, and Israel should be able to build settlements wherever it wants.”
He also said: “The question is, should the Palestinians have a place [...]
[Interview] Iran’s Bestselling Author on Ahmadinejad
by Weiai Xu
Farhad Jafari says Ahmadinejad may be Iran’s best hope for reform
In previous interviews, I spoke with Iranian students who stand firm with the opposition party and an Iranian editor who shed new light on social media’s role in this country. Today, my guest is Mr. Farhad Jafari whose [...]
[Interview] Students on Iran’s Future
Students support reform and change
by Weiai Xu
I interviewed three Iranian students over Facebook. The talk was thought-provoking. It gives outsiders a rare change to see the Iranian unrest through the eyes of Iranian students. All three students are supporters of the opposition party, and two of them attend the University of [...]