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Is Iran’s Most Believable Presidential Candidate a Fictional Character?

The iron fist of Iran’s regime allows no chance for opposition candidates to run in the presidential election, but in the virtual realm, a new graphic novel character is the champion of a free and fair election. Hundreds ...

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Iran and the Arab Uprisings

Ever since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has tried to cast itself as the head of the radical camp in the Middle East. Iran’s foreign policy did not lose its revolutionary zeal through the years. Iranian support for radical mov...

by Maged Mandour

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Cartoonist Mana Neyestani shows Ali Khamenei, Iran's Leader, in the middle of a fight between Ahmadinejad and Larijani (Via Mardomak)

Iran: Will Thieving Officials Also Have Their Hands Chopped Off?

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once again proved his talent for making surprising headlines when he played a video for the parliament on February 3, 2013 implicating his political rivals, some of the country’s lead...

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This is not Islam

We in the West can all too easily believe that every Muslim wishes to kill in the name of religion. The protests that have swept across the Muslim world over the past several days are nothing to do with the inflammatory anti-Is...

by Gareth Lewis

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The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is a trap we must overcome

This week, anger has turned flags into flames and spilt blood in the streets of Sanaa, Benghazi, Cairo and Tehran over a cheap, cowardly trap, set with the one aim of inspiring violence. And it has. But now it is time that we s...

by Chris Wright

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