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April 30, 2017 By   Mohammad Amin With 24 days remaining before Iran's presidential elections, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei prohibited Iran's six presidential candidates from looking outside Iran's borders for economic development, in a   public speech   on April 25, 2017. But that was exactly what was being discussed in Iran's debates. None of the candidates are openly willing to turn toward the West. However, they expressed concern for the economic problems of the nation in a way that suggested engagement with the West would be inevitable. Vice president Eshagh Jahangiri, one of the banned candidates, recently said: “ Unemployment   is a challenge cloud in Iran. The unemployment rate in some regions is up to 30 percent.” He added: “this rate for women sometimes is doubled.” Despite his constant effort to show economic development records, President Hassan Rouhani made a strange comment this week: “ I never  promised to solve economic ...

David Kilgour   Become a fan   Former member of Canada's House of Commons and Secretary of State  Posted:   04/28/2017 12:50 pm EDT   Updated:   04/28/2017 12:54 pm EDT In democratic nations, groups and individuals can normally pursue their beliefs and convictions as long as they do so peacefully. In recent years, such practices have been threatened by terrorist attacks, causing fear, insecurity, anxiety and distrust especially in the Middle East, Europe and North America. The need for peace in the world is today greater than ever. There are several initiatives which can help re-establish sustainable peace in our own countries and those around us, but the first and most important is to locate the sources of violence. Some analysts believe that ISIS, or any group that adopts terrorism as strategy and sheds innocents' blood to reach its goals, should be fought. ISIS has now proved its inhuman nature to the world repeatedly. ...

F riday, April 28, 2017 How President Trump can make good on his campaign promises to hold Tehran accountable. By  Ilan Berman  | Contributor April 25, 2017,  What should President Trump do about Iran? Campaign rhetoric about a rapid dismantlement of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers has given way of late to policy inertia, as the new White House focuses on domestic challenges (like health care) and foreign irritants, such as Syria and North Korea. But there are now fresh signs that the White House could soon seriously rethink its Iran strategy. As it does, it would be wise to revisit one of its earliest foreign policy concepts, and one with the potential to dramatically alter the strategic equation vis-a-vis Iran: a comprehensive blacklisting of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.  The starting point for any such discussion is to determine whether the group in question meets the legal definition of a foreign ter...

Massacre In Syria Is Why Iran Must Be Evicted Heshmat Alavi   ,     CONTRIBUTOR APR 5, 2017 International media aired horrifying   images   of Bashar Assad’s most recent massacre through an   atrocious chemical attack   staged by his Sukhoi 22 warplanes targeting the city of Khan Sheikhoon in Idlib Province, in Syria’s north. At least 100 suffocated to death and more than 400 were left injured with symptoms similar to those caused by sarin gas. Most of the victims were women and children and even the hospital where the victims were being treated was bombed. While the Syrian opposition delegation involved in the Geneva talks said this chemical attack has left future negotiations looking bleak, this horrific act of vicious barbarity should pinpoint the international community’s attention on the main element behind all this carnage:   Iran’s involvement in Syria   in a diehard effort to maintain the di...