In this new video, I discuss the career of the late former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and the reality behind the New York Times’ reporting on Iran’s “reform” movement.
Robert Spencer: Rafsanjani and Reform in Iran
The death of an illusion. My latest in FrontPage: Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1989 to 1997, is dead, and the New York Times is inconsolable. Rafsanjani, you see, was a “reformer,” a “protector,” according to the Times, “of what was left of Iran’s marginalized reformist movement and […]
Robert Spencer in Breitbart: Four Reasons Why Iran Is Worse than the Islamic State
Over at Breitbart I explain why Iran is a greater threat than the Islamic State: The Islamic State (ISIS) is a gang of thugs who glory in their sadism, videoing their beheadings of their captives, taunting gays with tweets of #LoveWins accompanying photos of their executions of gays, and boasting of their plans to bring […]