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What Is Erdogan’s Real Plan for Kurds?

November 13, 2019November 14, 2019 Editor 67 Views Ahmat Yigit Yildrim, Ankara, Arab belt, Arabization campaign of Jazira, Azari groups, Azerbaijan province, demographics, eportation, Ghazi Pour, Hafez al-Assad, Iraq, Kurdish social and political structures, Kurdistan Workers Party, majlis, minority, Muhammad Hasannajad, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shi’a Muslims, Simko Shikak revolution, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Syrian Kurds, Turkey

The Sykes-Picot Agreement failed to separate Kurds in the Middle East. Erdogan plans to change that. By Shukriya Mahmoodee  Source:

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Discontent in Iraq and Lebanon is a way to expose Iran’s corruption

November 13, 2019November 14, 2019 Editor 74 Views academic projects, Assembly of Experts, beneficiaries, Caroline Glick, condos, Congress, corrupt elements, cupidity, Cyprus, delegitimize, demonstrations, deteriorating, domestic needs, Dubai, economic opportunity, economic privation, Environment, Expediency Council, foreign adventures, FOREIGN MINISTER, Gaza, global arrogance, ground water, Guardian Council, Hamas, increase tension, Iranian public, Iraq, jealous friends, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), leadership, Lebanon, maximum pressure, military, militias, Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS), Mohammad Javad Zarif, on the brink of crisis, policies, potent weapon, protecting assets, rainy-day account, revelations, Saudi Arabia, sensitive intelligence information, soldiers, stress, suppression, Syria, the better, The worse, trickle, unrest, Visas, yearning for justice, Zionism

By James Durso Source: The Hill The sanctions against Iran are obviously working as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

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Tehran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader killed by IDF rocket in his home in the Gaza Strip

November 13, 2019November 14, 2019 Editor 64 Views a message that was being sent to Iran, Akram Al-Ajouri, assassinated, Baha Abu Al Ata, Damascus, Daraya neighborhood, drone, Former military chief General Yossi Kuperwasser, Gaza Strip, Israeli i24NEWS, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli war with Iran, Mazza district, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, rockets, Saraya al-Quds (Quds units), terrorist attacks

By The Free Iranian Staff Baha Abu Al-Ata, commander of the Saraya al-Quds (Quds units) who was behind all attacks

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Will the European Union Sanction the Khomeiniist Regime?

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Editor 63 Views agreement, China, committment, compensation, compliance status, disappointment, EU, Federica, foreign deposits, FOREIGN MINISTER, France, frustration, Germany, Heiko Maas, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Jean Asselborn, Joint Commission, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Luxembourg, reinstitute, Russia, terrorist attacks, UK, UN Security Council, USA

Or will the desire for short-term profits prevail? By The Free Iranian Staff In the aftermath of Tehran’s announcement last

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Iran’s Imperial Overreach

November 7, 2019November 8, 2019 Editor 62 Views Adel Abdul-Mahdi, Ali Larijani, anti-government, Axis of Resistence, Ba’ath regime, Brigadier General Esmail Kowsari, Communist Party, demonstrators, Hassan Hanizadeh, Hassan Nasrallah, Hossein Amirabdollahian, imperial overreach, military-industrial complex, monopoly, political protests, Prime Minister, proxies, Qassem Soleimani, Qassim Suleimani, Saad Hariri, Sarallah Headquarters, Shia movement, Soviet Union, stabilize, wildfire, Yegor Gaidar, Zionist regime

As anti-government protests spread like wildfire threatening the Islamic Republic’s allies and proxies, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei faces

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One Iranian among 26 investors to be stripped of Cyprus’s Controversial Golden Passport

November 7, 2019November 8, 2019 Editor 70 Views Cambodians, cash-for-citizenship, Chinese nationals, controversial, Corruption, Cyprus, EU citizen, European Union, Golden Passport, investment, Kenyans, Malaysians, Mediterranean island, Money Laundering, Nicos Anastasiades, tax evasion

By The Free Iranian Staff   Cyprus said on Wednesday that it had started a process to strip 26 individuals of

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Abandoned by its Houthi proxies, the Khomeinist regime attacks the Riyadh agreement

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Editor 67 Views Ansar Allah, comprehensive plan, Constitutional government, crisis, disputes, Foreign Ministry, hardship, Houthi militias, inhabitants, international leaders, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, proxies, recruited, Riyadh agreement, Saudia Arabia, supervision, Tehran, Transitional Council of the South, watchful eye, Yemeni, Zaidi Shi'a

By The Free Iranian Staff   Tehran’s Foreign Ministry, while attacking the Riyadh agreement to end disputes between the Yemeni

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Head of Tehran-funded Shi’ite Center in France charged with inciting anti-Semitism

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Editor 46 Views anti-Jewish, anti-semitism, Cameroonian, Criminal Court, diatribe, Dunkerque, Grande-Synthe, inciting, Jamel Taheri, Lille, magazine, Nord governorate, possession, Protests, provoke, publication, racial hatred, Shiite fundamentalism, suspended prison sentence, weapons, Zahra Center

By The Free Iranian Staff On Monday, a court in the northern French commune of Dunkerque has sentenced Jamel Taheri,

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Iran inks preliminary deal to rebuild Syria’s electrical grid, state media says

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Editor 47 Views Bashar Assad, bloody civil war, construction, Damascus, foot the bill, Iranian military presence, Iranian proxies, Israeli border, Lebanese terror group, long-term, memorandum of understanding, militias, Mohammad Zuhair Kharboutli, Moscow, power grid, power plants, reconstructing, Syria, Syrian Electricity Minister, transmission lines, war-torn, Washington

Agreement has Tehran footing bill for construction of power plants, transmission lines, possibly connecting countries via Iraq, as Islamic Republic

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Iran toils to snuff out turmoil in its zones of influence

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 Editor 48 Views Abbas Mousavi, Al-Arabiya, Ali al-Araqi, Brian Hook, Christian Party, Corruption, Foreign Ministry, Gebran Bassil, Green Zone, legal structure, Michel Aoun, mobilized, Nasiriyah, Qassem Soleimani, Saad Hariri, spokesman, tear gas, US Special Representative for Iran

Washington revealed October 31 that Iran spent $16 billion on its “militias” in Iraq and Syria, in statements made by

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