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Iranwire – IranWire interviewed Professor Anthony Feinstein about the psychological impact of eye injuries and other wounds sustained by anti-establishment protesters in Iran. A psychiatrist at the University of Toronto, Prof. Feinstein has ample experience in studying the effects of trauma on mental health. He previously worked with IranWire to research the impact of trauma on Iranian journalists who face …

Iranwire – Many questions have arisen regarding the Islamic Republic’s involvement in the October 7 attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorist group. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, evidently concerned about potential Israeli and US reactions, initially denied any involvement of the Iranian government. However, he later threatened other governments of continued actions by militia groups supported by Iran. This article …

Iranwire – The Delpasand family in Türkiye is on a quest for an ordinary life – a fundamental human right unjustly denied to them in their homeland. The family’s odyssey began on a fateful night, November 15, 2022, when their car passed into the crosshairs of security forces on a Rasht city street. The streets of the central Golsar neighborhood …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Why did Hamas trigger its attack out of the blue? Hamas apologists repeat the usual shibboleths: occupation, colonial settlements, expulsions, Apartheid, the two-state solution. A closer look, however, shows that none of those “reasons” could explain, let alone justify, why Hamas did what it did on October 7. The [Palestinian Authority] and Hamas have preferred to pose as …

gatestoneinstitute.org – In 1930s, Britain pursued a policy of appeasing Hitler and Nazi Germany in the hope of avoiding a war. To the contrary, as we know, by empowering the Nazis to invade and attempt to take over other nations, this policy of appeasement led to World War ll. [T]he Obama administration imagined, it seems, that enabling the expansionist, revolutionary regime of …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Notably, some of the Arab and Muslim states and their leaders who are pointing the finger of blame at Israel have not hesitated to take punitive measures against Hamas when they themselves felt threatened… In the eyes of these rulers, it is fine for Arabs to punish Hamas, but it is not fine for Israel to respond to …

iranintl – The war between Israel and Hamas has significantly transformed the landscape of TV news and reporting both visually and in terms of content. This transformation is expected to endure for an extended period before a new visual style and narrative takes its place. Nevertheless, while these changes are noticeable in television broadcasts emanating from the United States, the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “We coordinated with Hezbollah and with Iran and the Axis [of Resistance] before, during and after the battle at the highest level.” — Hamas representative Ahmed Abdulhadi, revealing Hamas coordination before and during the massacre, Newsweek, October 11, 2023. Another Hamas official, Ali Baraka, told Russia’s state-run RT outlet that his group had secretly planned the assault for two …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The indifference has reached a point where some Western media outlets and officials continue to label Hamas terrorists as “militants.” The October 7 carnage, during which Jewish women, children and the elderly were brutally murdered, shows that there is effectively no difference between Hamas and the Islamic State (ISIS). In 2017, Western media outlets published stories arguing that …

gatestoneinstitute.org – There should be little doubt that the war that began when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, actually originated in Iran. The multi-pronged, highly coordinated and murderous attacks could not have happened without Iranian government assistance and approval. Leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, according to the Wall Street Journal, have acknowledged that the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …