Dr. As’ad Abu Khalil on the Saudi Lobby Usually one speaks comically of the Arab lobby in Washington, D.C.. Since the oil boom in the 1970s, various Arab-American businesspeople and crooks traveled to the Middle East offering their services to Gulf regimes and promising—in return for large sums of money—to …

Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, the head of the Imam Khomeini (RA) Education and Research Institute, has met with Indian and Pakistani scholars and seminaries in the Institute’s auditorium in the holy city of Qom. In his speech to the scholars and seminarians, His Eminence explained the role of the divinely-sent prophets …

Ayatollah Ja’far Sobhani has given a lecture on Wahhabism as part of a series of lectures entitled “Theology and Islamic Thought” that he has been delivering in the holy city of Mashhad. Ayatollah Sobhani explained that the belief system of Wahhabism is an anathema to true Islam. Pointing to the …

Rasa News Agency reports – Ayatollah Hoseyn Nouri-Hamadani has met with members, scholars and political figures and representatives from North Khorasan province in memory of the late Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad-Hasan Agha-Najafi-Qouchani in the holy city of Mashhad. He spoke about the important role scholars and clerics have in society, and …

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi said, “Good manners is the key of solving personal and social problems.” According to news from Astan Quds Razavi website, this respected religious authority in his lecture delivering among pilgrims of the Razavi holy shrine asserted, “According to Imam Reza (A.S.), the best living is possible with …

For an accurate assessment of the danger represented by the project of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an overall reading of the Saudi political mindset is necessary. The Wahhabi Saudi state was established in the mid-18th century out of an alliance between Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdel Wahhab …

Britain must prepare to ally itself with Iran to combat the “shared threat” of extremists in Iraq and Syria who want to create “a terrorist state” that could extend to “the shores of the Mediterranean,” David Cameron has said. Suggesting that it was now in the UK’s national interest to …

An Israeli ship subject of a pro-Palestinian protest has docked, but demonstrations at the port of Oakland in California continue after between 2,000 and 3,000 pro-Palestinian activists streamed towards the port entrance on Saturday, chanting and waving flags. It remains unclear whether the ship’s cargo has been unloaded. The protesters …

Police chiefs have been forced to confirm for the first time the identities of two undercover police officers who fathered children with campaigners from groups they had been sent to infiltrate. One of them is Bob Lambert, the former head of the Muslim Contact Unit, who established close working relationships …

Among the worst of criminals and transgressors are murderers – those who take away the life of innocent human beings. Among this category of murderers, the worst of them are those who kill ruthlessly and shed the blood of a huge fraction of people in a cold-blooded and brutal manner.  …