The mullahs know that the severe threat to their regime that Donald Trump posed will soon be over. The Iranian nuclear deal that enables Iran’s nuclear program and opens the door for it to receive billions from a thoughtless, imprudent, and willfully ignorant West will soon be back on. So now is the time to […]
Iran: Influential ayatollah calls on police to make ‘surroundings unsafe’ for women with ‘loose hijab’
This is an open call for violence, but Tabatabei-Nejad is unlikely to face any criticism from his fellow ayatollahs for it. As far as they’re concerned, violence against women who don’t wear hijab is justified. After all, the Qur’an says to beat women “from whom you fear disobedience” (4:34) and that women should veil themselves […]
Overall death toll in Iran freedom protests rises to 17
How hard will the Islamic regime crack down? This is a spontaneous freedom movement with no apparent leadership. We can hope it will at least weaken the Islamic regime, and topple it soon. “Overall death toll in Iran protests rises to 17,” Al Arabiya, January 2, 2018: As the protests continue in Iranian cities for […]
Iran: Anti-regime protests spread across the country, protesters chant “Death to the dictator”
The protests were, at least initially, over economic troubles, not against the Islamic Republic as such, but to chant “Death to the dictator” is getting quite close to calling for an end to the Islamic regime. Before the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran was a Western-oriented, relatively secular regime, and there is no reason why […]
Islamic Republic of Iran arrests 11 Christians in raid on house church
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Iran regime arrests 11 Christians in raid on house church,” NCRI, August 19, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime arrested a group of practicing Iranian Christians last week at an in-house church in the city of Isfahan, central Iran. In total 11 Christians were […]
Iran authorities confiscate dogs in crackdown on ‘vulgar Western culture’
Javid Al-e Davood, the head of Iran’s Society For Protection of Animals, said: “Keeping dogs has not been regarded as haram in any religious book. Associating keeping dogs with Western culture is distorting the history of Islamic and Iranian civilisation.” Oh, come now, Javid. Islam hates dogs: “Once Gabriel promised the Prophet (that he would […]