Category Archives: Iran

“I Really Don’t Care, Do you?”

UPDATE BELOW. On Monday, 2 March 2026, the First Lady of the United States, Melanie Trump, presided over a session of the United Nations Security Council meeting about Maintenance of International Peace and Security, Children Technology and Education in Conflict. … Continue reading

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No Rhyme Or Reason?

UPDATE BELOW Many doubt about Donald Trump’s aims in the present war of Israel and the United States of America on Iran. It’s not only the end of Iran’s nuclear program and its ballistic missiles. But maybe it’s rather regime … Continue reading

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Will Imam Husayn Embrace Ayatollah Khamenei?

In 2010, I wrote a critical blogpost about political assassinations which might be solved, in particular, when asking who benefits. It was one year after the killing of a young woman, Neda Agha Soltan, during the bloody protests after the … Continue reading

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Venus Transits in 1032 and 2012

As readers may have noticed, I am a moon watcher. Eclipses of either the sun or the moon had been a sort of passion throughout my life, ever since my late father woke me up at 3 o’clock in the … Continue reading

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Insights Into Shi’ite Islam

I have come across this book by photographer Hans Georg Berger, Einsicht – Drei Reisen in die innerste Welt des schiitischen Islam (Insight – Three Journeys Into the Innermost World of Shi’a Islam, edited by Boris von Brauchitsch and Saeid … Continue reading

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