This paper was presented at the European Parliament on 18 November 2015 by Fouad Hamdan, the Executive Director of the Rule of Law Foundation, which supports the Naame Shaam campaign. It was part of conference titled “Countering Extremism and Improving Governance in the MENA Region” hosted by […]
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1 December 2015 The following narrative and policy recommendations are based on three in-depth reeports by Naame Shaam (henceforth ‘the Reports’): Iran in Syria: From an Ally of the Regime to an Occupying Force (November 2014) Silent Sectarian Cleansing: Iranian Role in Mass Demolitions and Population Transfers […]
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Dozens of Armenians held a demonstration in front of the UN mission in Tehran on 16 April 2014. They were protesting against alleged massacres committed by Syrian rebels against the Armenian residents of the northern town of Kasab in March 2014. [1] Similar protests had been held […]
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Three Lebanese journalists working for Hezbollah Lerbanon’s Al-Manar TV were killed and two others injured on 7 April 2014 after their car came under gunfire attack in the historic town of Maaloula in Syria. Reporter Hamza Haj Hassan, cameraman Mohammad Mantash and technician Halim Allaw were among […]
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Do they really exist? Several Iranian state-controlled media last week circulated a story, originally published by Bultan News [1], about a young Saudi woman who allegedly travelled to Syria a few months ago to carry out ‘sex jihad’, where she became pregnant with an Islamist fighter’s child. […]
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Should all Iranians follow Ayatollah Khamenei’s example and wear worn-out sandals? A major development has been unfolding in Iran at a worrying pace since the beginning of 2014 We keep reading and hearing about the deteriorating economy and the regime’s inability to solve its financial problems. And […]
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The Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs claims his government is not seeking to keep Syria’s dictator in power forever, implying he could potentially be replaced by another ally of Iran. Yet Amir Abdollahian insists that Bashar al-Assad still serves Iran’s purported strategic interests, […]
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The least one can say about the Turkish prime minister’s decision two weeks ago to ban Twitter in his country, it was a hilariously hypocritical decision. For Mr Erdogan has a Twitter account himself and tweets frantically all day long. But many people may not know that […]
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It’s supposed to be the responsibility of governments to protect their citizens’ lives. One can find many occasions in history on which governments made serious compromises in order to shield their citizens from harm, the case of the British marines or the American climbers arrested by Iranian […]
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian intellectual and writer from Ar-Raqqah. He spent 16 years of his life (1980 to 1996) in Syrian regime prisons. Saleh has been heavily involved in the Syrian revolution, writing and working alongside young activists. He was in hiding in Eastern Ghouta […]
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