By Khosrow SemnaniFor the Deseret NewsPublished: January 4, 2018 1:10 pm Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ended 2017 with a taunt that he may live to regret.In response to the Trump administration’s adoption of a hardline policy toward the Islamic republic, including the refusal to certify the nuclear deal, the Ayatollah declared that like […]
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Khosrow Semnani spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. on Oct. 30 about how Ayatollah Khomeini’s ideology laid the foundation for corruption in Iran’s resources by denying the sovereignty of the Iranian people.Read more in Persian
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The Islamic Republic continues squandering Iranians’ most vital resource: the energy that could drive their prosperity and fuel their future. Washington D.C., October 30, 2018 — As Iranians experience a deteriorating economy, sinking currency, and rising joblessness, a new study published by Omid for Iran and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics lays
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Nowruz Letter to President Trump and Congress – English PDFمتن نامه سرگشاده به مناسبت نوروز خطاب به رییس جمهور آمریکا دونالد ترامپ و اعضای کنگره – Persian PDF Dear President Donald Trump and Honorable Members of Congress, Today, March 20th, Iranians celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, an ancient ceremony that ushers in the spring
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ATTA KENARE / AFP / Getty ImagesIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holds a press conference in Tehran on October 2, wherehe declared anew that Iran will not back down on its nuclear program despite economic problems causedby Western sanctions. _________________________________________________________________________________________ For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and
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A successful attack on Iranian nuclear facilities could cause mass civilian casualties and send toxic plumes of chemicals toward allied nations, a recent study found. “It is an ugly picture that needs to be considered, and whoever is thinking about attacking [an] Iranian facility, they need to take this into account,” said Khosrow Semnani, author
The West may not use nuclear weapons on Iran, but attacking its nuclear enrichment facilities will have a similar effect. As you can tell by the title, this 61-page paper, The Ayatollah’s Nuclear Gamble, is not Tehran-friendly. The report, released in September, is the product of Khosrow B. Semnani, an Iranian-American industrialist and philanthropist with,
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I’ve been meaning to write about this report on the multifold human costs of militarily striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and am happy to find that it’s already been noted by Golnaz Esfandiari as well as Gordon Lubold, among others. (Marsha Cohen’s well-read Lobe Log post on the same topic was the closest thing to such
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by Richard Silverstein on October 6, 2012 · 13 comments in Mideast Peace The University of Utah’s Hinckley School of Politics and Omid for Iran conducted an extensive year-long study of the impacts of a western military attack on Iran. Led by Iranian-American environmental engineer Khosrow Semnani, a panel of nuclear engineers, scientists and senior
No one in Iran is — and few in the West are — talking about the potential death toll, but it could rival the catastrophes of Bhopal and Chernobyl BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP / Getty Images Iranian twin sisters sit in front of worshippers performing ‘Id al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy
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