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The twin suicide bombings yesterday in Bir Hassan, south of Beirut, were rightfully described as “an attack on the Islamic orphanage.” In fact, the two blasts shook the neighborhood surrounding al-Majad Center, part of the Social Welfare Institutions, where about 100 children were playing outside and 150 others were attending …

Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson’s Sodastream fiasco didn’t grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli universities did, or Netanyahu’s increasing talk of million-dollar PR campaigns, legal offensives and diplomacy efforts to counter the BDS threat. Opinion pages are filled with debate, John Kerry has warned …

An old Kurdish saying goes: “When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.” In 1962, on the eve of the American invasion of Vietnam, US propaganda movie “Red Nightmare” portrayed the peoples of the Communist Bloc as bellicose, duplicitous, semi-human fanatics. The Warner Brothers-produced …

Hujjat al-Islam Mohammadian, president of the Institution Representing the Supreme Leader in Universities, presented a short letter from the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khamenei to a union made up of Islamic student groups noting down 5 practical steps as reminders relevant to all youth involved in Islamic …

Grand Jurist, Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli, speaking to journalist regarding the revolution day demonstrations in Qum, stated the reality of answering the call to come out in support of the system: “This presence is answering the call of the intellect, of one’s true nature, of independence and political awareness.”   The …

Yesterday, in a religious gathering in Tehran, respected scholar Hujjut al-Islam Panahiyan spoke about the importance of understanding the strength of the enemy from the right perspective. He stated: “Those who believe that the arrogant powers are great in their strength do not believe in the divine promises. When Imam …