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2019-09-18 14:46
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Houthi retaliation on Saudi oil facilities checkmates Trump
“We promise the Saudi regime that our future operations will expand further and be more painful than ever as long as it continues its aggression and siege.” —Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sari'
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2019-04-05 19:43
Analyst writes to U.S. on flood-hit Iranians
TEHRAN –Yuram Abdullah Weiler, a U.S.-based international affairs analyst who occasionally writes for the Tehran Times, has written an open letter to U.S. officials urging them to open a way for relief aid for those hit by floods in Iran.
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2019-02-12 10:07
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
The Islamic Revolution at 40: Acknowledging the women
"This victory has come to us first and foremost because of the women rather than the men." —Imam Khomeini, 23 Farvardin 1358 (12 April 1979).
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2018-06-26 15:08
By Jalal Heirannia
Trump seems to be closer to Reagan: analyst
TEHRAN – Political analyst Yuram Abdullah Weiler says Trump “is a man that sees no problem with taking advantage of someone in financial straits; a man that appears to completely lack the smallest iota of compassion for any human being outside of his family circle.”
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2018-06-11 12:47
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Reflections on Quds Day: After 12 years has anything really changed?
“One must ask if Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza is really a step in the direction of peace in the Middle East. Has anything really changed?” — Yuram Abdullah Weiler , June, 2006
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2018-04-21 09:24
By: Jalal Heirannia
Quran is a symbol of Muslim unity: analyst
TEHRAN – Political analyst Yuram Abdullah Weiler says “Muslims have become the scapegoat for the leaders of the arrogant powers of the world to justify the draconian measures of austerity and surveillance imposed upon the citizens of their respective countries as well as for the obscene levels of military spending.”
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2018-04-17 10:12
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Locked, loaded and lost: an arrogant autocrat’s abortive surgical strike on Syria
“It’s not the cigar, stupid. It’s the cruise missiles launched to cover the shame.” — Christopher Hitchens
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2018-01-05 12:29
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Protests in Iran: Co-opting the people’s expression of religious democracy
“The most important instance of freedom is to be able to choose one’s own destiny.” —Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
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2017-12-17 11:27
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
The usurpation of Palestine from Balfour to Trump
“Palestinian Arabs might have ended up governing their own country if a Russian Jew living in Manchester had not developed a chemical process for extracting nail-varnish remover from horse-chestnuts.” —Karl Sabbagh
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2017-10-02 10:43
By: Javad Heirannia
Western civilization will decline: analyst
TEHRAN – Political analyst Yuram Abdullah Weiler says “According to the historian Arnold Toynbee, civilizations decline because of their inability to cope with important challenges.”
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2017-09-25 12:25
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Trump’s UN rant: A stain that must disappear from the page of time
“If you are without feeling for the suffering of others, It is not possible for you to be called ‘Human’.” Sadi
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2017-09-10 15:54
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Hajj: Antidote for the malignancy of American materialism
“There is no crime America will not commit in order to maintain its political, cultural, and military domination of those parts of the world where it predominates.” —Imam Khomeini to Hajj pilgrims, September 12, 1980
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2017/07/08
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Protest Paradox: On the futility of liberal “resistance” in the age of Trump
“If the State authority is open to democratic influence, the demonstration will hardly be necessary; if it is not, it is unlikely to be influenced by an empty show of force containing no real threat.” —John Berger (1926–2017)
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2017-06-07 14:56
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
The destabilizing paradox of missile defense
There is a strange paradox when it comes to anti-missile defense: while in theory seeming to increase stability by providing a shield against incoming missiles launched by an adversary, in practice an anti-missile system tends to be destabilizing and increase tension. The reason is that such a missile “defense” reinforces the second strike capability of the deploying nation and could thus increase the likelihood of a pre-emptive first strike by the nation against which the system is deployed.
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2017/05/28
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Theater of the absurd: Trump’s speech before the Riyadh Summit
“Iran—fresh from real elections—attacked by @POTUS in that bastion of democracy & moderation. Foreign Policy or simply milking KSA of $480B?” —Iran’s Foreign Minister Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif
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2017-04-18 11:31
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Poison gas and the Holocaust: Spicer crosses a Zionist redline
During a White House presser on April 11, 2017, a revealing question and answer exchange took place between members of the White House press corps and Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer. Several probing questions on the U.S. attack on Syria had been asked by members of the press corps and Spicer’s replies all centered around Russia’s backing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom he tried to compare to the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.
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2017/04/04
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Migrant Misery: U.S. incarcerating immigrants and abusing asylum seekers
“How do I have this knife, this guillotine over my neck and be able to function?” — New York immigrant-rights leader Ravi Ragbir
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2017/01/06
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Enduring Epistle: Imam Khomeini’s letter to Mikhail Gorbachev
“Indeed, how can Islam be the opium of the people—the religion that has made Iranians as firm as a mountain against superpowers?” —Imam Khomeini Undoubtedly one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, Imam Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini, not only was the spiritual force behind the Islamic Revolution in Iran, but also influenced other world leaders, among them was Mikhail Gorbachev. In January of 1989, the Imam wrote a letter to the former premier of the Soviet Union that contained much wisdom and sound advice, the value of which endures to this day.
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2016-12-22 15:46
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Alarming appointees: Trump and his Islamophobic ideologues
“This is a holy war. This is essentially the Constitution versus the Quran on every level.”
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2016-12-14 11:25
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Unleashing Lethality: Obama OKs MANPADs for Syrian “moderates”
“[A]n ultimate goal of the United States continues to be a world which is free from the scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments....” —United States Arms Export Control Act
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2016-12-07 14:37
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Post-reality America: Trump’s (s)election and the irrelevant recount
“If voting could change anything it would be made illegal!” —Robert S. Borden, M.D. in 1976 Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, or did he? In a surrealistic scenario, third party candidate Jill Stein is feverishly filing for recounts of the popular vote in an expensive exercise that, if not irrelevant, appears to be of no benefit to her. Moreover, with the Obama administration accusing Russia of hacking to influence the election, and Trump having warned of rigging beforehand, we are seeing the advent of what could be termed a post-reality America.
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2016-12-03 13:43
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Sisi’s policy switch on Syria widens Egypt-Saudi split
“Our priority is to support national armies, for example in Libya to assert control over Libyan territories, and deal with extremist elements. The same with Syria and Iraq.” Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi
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2016-11-23 15:30
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Trump’s triumph: A revival of McCarthyism?
“Communists have the same right to vote as anybody else, don’t they?” —anti-communist crusader Joseph McCarthy
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2016-11-04 12:43
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Next week’s anticipated U.S. election
TEHRAN - For those misguided individuals who think there exists a democratic process in the United States to elect the president, think again. Aside from the reality that the popular vote for the U.S. leader is at best an election to determine the votes of the ethereal elite who will actually vote for the president in December, there is the issue of just who counts the votes, how they are counted and who owns the voting machines.
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2016-10-19 10:39
By: Javad Heirannia
U.S. wants to install a pro-Western puppet regime in Syria: analyst
TEHRAN – Political analyst Yuram Abdullah Weiler says “the U.S. wants to topple the Syrian government and install a pro-Western puppet regime in its place.”
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2016-09-25 13:16
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
The Sacred Defense: 8 years of U.S.-backed war on Iran
“For many Iranians, these events reminded them how defenseless they were against foreign aggression, a position that forced Iran to build up a powerful military and defense system.”
