January 23rd, 2012

Iran arrests prominent Ahwazi Arab singer and his brother


 Members of Ghalib’s family were previously arrested in 2005 during an uprising by ethnic Arabs against a government program that called for requisitioning of land from Arabs in

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January 12th, 2012

Iran ‘jamming Al-Jazeera broadcasts’


 The satellite television on Sunday announced a new frequency for Arabsat viewers due to “continued interference.”

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January 11th, 2012

Bomb kills nuclear scientist in Iran; Tehran blames Israel, U.S. for assassination


 The scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, “has been working as the deputy in charge of commerce at the Natanz site,” said a posting on the website of Sharif University in

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January 5th, 2012

Ahmadinejad backs Russian stance on nuclear dispute after EU oil ban


 European Union governments reached a preliminary agreement to ban imports of Iranian crude to the EU but have yet to decide when such an embargo would be put in place, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.

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January 5th, 2012

Qatari premier admits Arab League ‘mistakes’ in Syria amid rising criticism


 He also said it was Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s job to stop the killings, which the United Nations now puts at more than 5,000 since anti-government protests first erupted in the country in mid-March.

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November 29th, 2011

Ahwazi Arab women’s participation in the Geneva Conference / November 2011


 Ahwazi Arabs constitute an indigenous, ethnic, national and linguistic minority in Iran. Historically, this indigenous Arab community, women and men alike, have been

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November 17th, 2011

Iran faces big power pressure, IAEA wants mission


Big powers agree on compromise language for resolution, to be presented in second day of IAEA meeting; Nuclear watchdog chief suggests sending special mission to Iran

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October 27th, 2011

Balochistan Problem: ‘guerrilla War A Real Possibility’ By Ali Usman


Baloch nationalism is a reality that we cannot ignore or coop up by making promises,” said Dr Javaid Haider Syed on the second and final day of a conference on ‘Pakistan:

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October 20th, 2011

End of an era for Libya: Qaddafi is killed in Sirte; Al Arabiya set to film his body


 Qaddafi’s death, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and

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October 19th, 2011

How Iran Kills Abroad


On the night of Sept. 17, 1992, at 10:45, two darkly clad men burst in on a private dinner at a Berlin restaurant

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