It depends on who is reporting. If it’s Fars News and other Iranian state-controlled media, then it’s obviously “the terrorists”. No need to check or verify. We all know it, don’t we? Well, let’s have a proper look. As part of a truce agreed on at the […]
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While the Geneva II talks were in progress, and Iranian officials were giving confusing messages about the outcome of the talks and about organising ‘democratic elections’ in Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched some of their most horrific attacks on civilian areas across Syria, particularly in Aleppo and […]
Read more →Shirin Ebadi: I am ashamed of my country’s intervention in Syria, where civilians are killed, and as an Iranian, I apologize to the Syrian people. The Iranian state intervenes in Syria despite the will of Iranian people. The activist and lawyer, who won the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Read more →The managing editor of NOW, Hanin Ghaddar, published an interesting article on 27 January 2014 under the title “Why Hezbollah will have to leave Syria”. She wrote: “Hezbollah and its leadership in Iran did not expect their battle in Syria to last this long: they probably thought […]
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A brilliant caricature by the most celebrated Syrian cartoonist, Ali Firzat, depicting eloquently what the Iranian regime is dragging us into.
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European fascists and neo-Nazis have been pouring into Syria to fight alongside the Syrian regime forces, which are also supported by Sepah Qods and Hezbollah Lebanon fighters. Where does that leave the latter two, who are supposedly the ‘defenders of Islam and Palestine’ against ‘Western imperialism’ and […]
Read more →In January 2014, Orient TV released a four-part documentary about “Bashar’s Secret Life”.[1] Based on al-Assad’s hacked emails [2] and high-profile interviews with former Syrian officials and politicians from Assad’s inner circle, the documentary paints a picture of the Syrian president as an irrational, irresponsible dictator who […]
Read more →If you watch Iranian mainstream TV or read official Iranian newspapers, the impression you often get from their coverage of what’s happening in Syria is that the country is going through a ‘civil war’ between al-Assad’s government, allegedly so beloved and supported by ‘Syrian people’, and various […]
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A Syrian opposition website has published hundreds of names and profile pictures of men it claims were Hezbollah Lebanon fighters who died in battle in Syria.[1] To double-check the authenticity of the photos, Naame Shaam chose a random sample from the pictures and tried to verify them […]
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Tehran, 10 February 2014 A group of Iranian activists and citizen-journalists today launched a Facebook page in both Persian and English, with the aim of informing the Iranian public about their government’s policies and direct involvement in Syria. Using the name “Naame Shaam” (نامه شام), or “Letters […]
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