Tag Archives: Ali Khamenei

Eid-e-Fetr And Nowruz

I have written about this year’s remarkable coincidence of Christian holiday of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Ramadan on February 18. When Ramadan closes at the end of this week there is another coincidence with an important holiday, Nowruz, … Continue reading

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“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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Absolutely Not Expected

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is of course smart, too. Hassan Rouhani’s victory was inevitable. At 50.7% it would have been a so often exercised easy task to give clandestine orders to the Interior Ministry to round down his … Continue reading

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