Monthly archive : "December, 2012"

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CIA is the foremost criminal organization in the world

CIA is the foremost criminal organization in the world

Kourosh Ziabari - American journalist and political commentator Sherwood Ross believes that CIA is the world's foremost criminal organization and that the anti-Iranian sanctions of the United States and its European allies are contrary to the principles of human rights. "Iran is one of the world's most peaceful nations. It has not made war on a neighbor in modern times. Its crime is oil. The U.S. overthrow of the elected government of Iran in 1953 came about at the behest of the UK, whose British Petroleum antecedent was driven from the country for cheating the Iranians out of their fair share of the proceeds from the sale of oil," he says. Sherwood Ross is an award-winning journalist who formerly worked for the City News Bureau of...

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Al-Qaeda is officially working with NATO in Syria

Al-Qaeda is officially working with NATO in Syria

  Kourosh Ziabari - Prominent French journalist Thierry Meyssan believes that Al-Qaeda is overtly cooperating with NATO in order to foment and stoke unrest in Syria, and that Israel, France, Qatar and the United States are benefiting from the continued instability in the crisis-hit country. "At the beginning , people from Al-Qaeda committed horrible crimes like what they did in Libya and Iraq and now they are carrying out suicide attacks. According to Council on Foreign Relations, that is, according to the U.S. itself, Al-Qaeda is now a main part of the Free Syrian Army," Thierry Meyssan said in an exclusive phone interview with Tehran Times conducted earlier this month. Thierry Meyssan is a French journalist and political...

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Iran has three options to restore the value of national currency

Iran has three options to restore the value of national currency

  Kourosh Ziabari - Targeted with the biting sanctions of the United States and European Union over its nuclear program, Iran's economy is experiencing difficult and breathtaking days. The import of vital goods, including medicine and foodstuff is being impeded, the energy, insurance, transportation and industrial companies are unable to smoothly do business with their foreign counterparts and their financial transactions have been obstructed and the price of goods increases on a daily basis. Prof. Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University believes that Iran is facing hyperinflation, with a monthly inflation rate of nearly 70% per month and its national currency, rial, has lost its value...

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U.S. Human Rights Policy is Self-serving and Duplicitous

U.S. Human Rights Policy is Self-serving and Duplicitous

  Kourosh Ziabari - Political commentator and university professor George Katsiaficas believes that the wave of revolutionary uprising which has encompassed the Middle East and North Africa may further implicate the other regions of the world and has already shown its effects in countries such as Gabon, China and even the United States. "The courage of Iranians in 1979, their withstanding of ferocious repression by the Shah and his forces, was evident for people all over the world, and inspired Haitians and Filipinos to overthrow their dictators," says Katsiaficas. George Katsiaficas is a renowned university professor, sociologist, author and activist. He is a visiting American Professor of Humanities and Sociology at Chonnam...

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Free Syrian Army targets civilians for supporting the government

Free Syrian Army targets civilians for supporting the government

  Kourosh Ziabari - Almost 18 months after the beginning of unrest and violence in Syria, the Syrian people are waiting for peace and tranquility to once again rule their homeland and their destroyed lives. The Syrian people are embattled in a war which a number of Western powers and regional states have launched against their country, and the only conceivable reason is their resistance against the expansionistic policies of Israel and NATO who want to bring Syria to its knees and turn it into a new ally for the United States in the Arab world. The Western mainstream media have tried to portray the unrest in Syria as a continuation of the Arab Spring and the popular revolutions that swept the Middle East since almost one year...

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U.S. decline? America, A Country Controlled by Warmongers

U.S. decline? America, A Country Controlled by Warmongers

  Kourosh Ziabari - Although the United States has been a politically prosperous and economically successful country, it’s becoming difficult for its leaders to continue maintaining what some political analysts call the “military industrial racket” it has been holding throughout the past decades. To study the decline of the U.S. Empire does not mean that one is happy with the fact that the United States is losing its economic and political dominance and power, but it leads us to the understanding that how a country that was once the number one superpower in the world has become an entity that is now in the hands of a small elite of warmongers who are ready to forfeit the national interests of the nation for the sake of...

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Independent nations must move toward New World Order

Independent nations must move toward New World Order

  Kourosh Ziabari - Prof. Jean Bricmont is a renowned Belgian public intellectual, theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. A progressive author, he has cooperated with the leading American thinker Noam Chomsky on a variety of anti-war causes. In 2007, he wrote an article in French discussing the possibility of a US invasion of Iran. One of his famous books is "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science" which he has co-written with Alan Sokal. In this book, they talk about a number of issues, including the allegedly incompetent and pretentious usage of scientific concepts by a small group of influential philosophers and...

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The U.S. has failed to suppress Iran’s Islamic Revolution

The U.S. has failed to suppress Iran’s Islamic Revolution

  Kourosh Ziabari - Former Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Army General Mirza Aslam Beg believes that the people of Iran, despite tolerating the biting impacts of economic sanctions, have successfully withstood the mounting pressures from the United States and its allies and now have reached self-sufficiency and power to determine their destiny. "The sanctions and embargos have caused misery to the people of Iran, particularly on the issue of acquiring Nuclear Technology for peaceful purposes. I reckon that Iran has achieved, what they wanted to, and now they should declare to the world, Come and see, what we have achieved, and how honest we have been in saying that, our quest had been for the nuclear technology for peaceful...

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Banning Press TV: making a mockery of free speech

Banning Press TV: making a mockery of free speech

Kourosh Ziabari - Only three days after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its alleged role in promoting peace and reconciliation across the European continent, the European Union made the most undemocratic and non-peaceful decision one might think of by ordering the French-based satellite provider Eutelsat SA to take 19 Iranian TV channels, including the 24-hour English-language Press TV off air, denying millions of viewers across the world the opportunity to benefit from the alternative, critical standpoint of a group of media which had for long endeavored to challenge the Western mainstream media's uncontested influence over the global public opinion. The disputed move can be seen as the latest effort intended for pressuring and...

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When the U.S. ridicules the principles of free speech

When the U.S. ridicules the principles of free speech

  Kourosh Ziabari - Prof. Terri Ginsberg is an American university professor, film scholar and cultural critic. She made the headlines in 2008 when she was dismissed from her post at the North Carolina State University as a professor of film studies for criticizing the apartheid policies of the Israeli regime and its mistreatment of the Palestinian citizens. She was “punished with partial removal from — and interference in — duty, non-renewal of contract and rejection from a tenure-track position” and then realized that the whole universities across the United States had boycotted her after she applied for 150 jobs but was denied even interviews, which she says was something very unusual for someone with her publishing...

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The Western powers have lost all sense of morality

The Western powers have lost all sense of morality

  Kourosh Ziabari - American author and former university professor believes that the Western powers, immensely influenced by the Israeli regime, have lost all sense of morality and are behaving in a criminal way that is dangerous to global peace. “What we see in Obama’s murder of Osama bin Laden and various other figures by drone strikes is the criminal behavior which comes about as the natural consequence of the undermining of the moral law. St. Augustine pointed out some 1,500 years ago that when governments ceased to adhere to the moral law, they become nothing more than a band of criminals,” saied E. Michael Jones in an exclusive interview with Tehran Times conducted last month. E. Michael Jones is a Catholic...

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Yes; they have even banned medicine and foodstuff

Yes; they have even banned medicine and foodstuff

Kourosh Ziabari - The fact that the inhumane sanctions of the United States and its European allies against Iran are taking a heavy toll on the ordinary Iranians is still hard to believe for many Western citizens who suppose that their governments are sincere in their claims of being concerned for human rights and freedom. In different articles, I've pointed out this fact that the economic sanctions against Iran have become so intensive and rigorous that they have nothing to do with Iran's nuclear program anymore; rather, they are aimed at paralyzing the daily life of the innocent civilians in the country with the ultimate goal of persuading them to revolt against the government to protest the deteriorating living conditions, hence...

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