What are the benefits of recent escalation of tension as well as the Zionist regime's propaganda war against Iran for the European and other Western countries and what are its advantages for Israel?

The recent turn of events has changed the course of Syria's history and those nations that were planning another Iraq-like war in Syria have been disappointed.

Death is whimsical these days, manifesting itself in shapes most repellent to man: men posing with the mangled parts of dead bodies; men urinating on dead bodies; men cutting out the eyes of their brothers and killing them in the name of religion.

Some of the largest hedge funds, private equity groups, university endowment managers, and other high rollers have met at New York's up market Waldorf Astoria Hotel to facilitate “the next big thing in finance.”

There is absolutely nothing for Iran, a country itself a victim of terrorism, to gain from trying to assassinate anyone, anywhere and any scenarios with this theme have proven as failures against Tehran.

On April 30th, Vietnam commemorated the anniversary of the victory of the war against the United States.

Burning the holy books which are interconnected with the hearts and souls of millions of people around the world is one of the most heinous and dreadful actions which one can think of.

Producing from his pocket a sheet of paper which contained a biblical quote from the Prophet Zachariah, former Shin Bet chief said, “I will tell you things that might be harsh. I cannot trust Netanyahu and Barak at the wheel in confronting Iran. They are infected with messianic feelings over Iran,” thereby dealing a heavy blow to the Israeli regime.

Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas has recently written a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing the possibility of resuming bilateral negotiations.

It would perhaps be futile to enter an argument about the rights and wrongs of the Gaddafi regime in Libya particularly after the grisly series of events that culminated in his gruesome death at the hands of still to be determined parties.

Israel’s colonization policies are entering an alarming new phase, comparable in historic magnitude to the original plans to colonize Gaza, the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) following the war of 1967.

At last, Jordan’s King Abdullah could not tolerate his reformist Prime Minister Awn al-Khasawneh and dismissed him while in a foreign visit to bring the country’s political game once against under direct control of the royal court.

Since March last year, a hidden movement has gathered pace in the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For the first time in decades, ordinary citizens in large numbers are demanding reform in public in the Arab monarchy. This is considered phenomenal because no public gatherings of any kind are allowed in Saudi Arabia.

Role reversals in performing arts have often made for good comedy. And come to think of it, they seldom fail to get a laugh on the political scene.

The Egyptian government has terminated a gas contract with Israel; more than contemplating the economic consequences of this measure, the Israeli officials are pondering its political ramifications.

It was on July 22, 2011 that a 33-year-old ultranationalist, pro-Zionist, Islamophobic, schizophrenic terrorist named Anders Behring Breivik made the headlines around the world by ruthlessly killing 77 innocent people in the Norwegian capital of Oslo and the island of Utoya by bombing a governmental building and carrying out a mass shooting at the camp of the Workers' Youth League.

Racial discrimination as one of the worst forms of human rights violations has a long history in the United States. For decades, the nation has been grappling with racism and its consequences while the repercussions of prejudiced and discriminatory laws against the African Americans which became obsolete many years ago still can be felt in the States.

Once again Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir waved his walking stick in the air. Once again he spoke of splendid victories over his enemies as thousands of jubilant supporters danced and cheered. But this time around the stakes are too high.

God bless Washington, London, Israel, Paris and their like-minded friends, their sermons introduced us to 'Human rights' and their actions taught us how to violate it.

The visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the island of Abu Musa, located in the Persian Gulf, has been met with protest from the United Arab Emirates and its allies in the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC). Iran contends that this island as well as the Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb belong to its territorial sovereignty and thus does not consider the visits made by its officials to the islands as provocative against any other country.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. --- William Shakespeare, The Tempest.

In March 2012, Iraq hosted an Arab League summit for the first time in two decades. On May 23, it will similarly host the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group. According to commentators, both events show Iraq’s bid to reemerge as a regional power now that Saddam Hussein has gone and the American occupation has ended.

The fatwa issued by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei forbidding the production, proliferation and use of nuclear bombs is to be considered a political milestone in Iranian history and one which can salvage the Islamic nation from the spate of external threats and plots.

It has not been the first time and it will probably not be the last time that it happens that the ownership issue of three Iranian Persian Gulf islands is brought up by the littoral states of the body of water.

All that has happened in Egypt is the overthrow of its dictator Hosni Mubarak and the preservation of the government and the rules which were established, strengthened and stabilized by him.

The first round of multifaceted talks between the representatives of Iran and 6 world powers wrapped up on Saturday evening in the Turkish city of Istanbul, reviving hopes for a diplomatic, peaceful solution to the tedious controversy over Iran's peaceful nuclear program.

“My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago,” began Baroness Tonge, when she spoke at the House of Lords in January 2009. “Now, as a result of the impotence of the international community, not just in Gaza, but…over 40 years of occupation of Palestine by Israel, those institutions that I visited are rubble and many of the children with whom I played are dead.”

The talks between Iran and the P5+1, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, were held in the Lotfi Kirdar Hall in Istanbul at 11:00 a.m. local time (1700 GMT) on Saturday.

The representatives of Iran and the six world powers have started their negotiations on Saturday April 14 in Istanbul to resolve the existing disagreements. All the evidence indicates that the two sides have held serious talks in order to arrive at a joint solution.

The new poem by German Nobelist Gunter Grass warning the world of a dangerous nuclear Israel left the Israelis with a bitter feeling of rage and revenge in their encounter with truth and the Germans with angst over ties now teetering on the brink of rupture.

Preserving the ceasefire in Syria is much more difficult than officially implementing it. Several factors could raise doubt about its continuation.

The United States' Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has signed an “indefinite delivery” from defense contractors ATK that will include nearly 750 million hollow-point ammunition for short range firearms. The department has yet to explain why they are ordering such munitions for an agency that mainly deals with domestic issues.

An election was held in Yemen on 21 February for picking a new president to replace the long-time ruler, US-friendly Ali Abdullah Saleh.

A new era has begun in the European Union (EU)-Iran relations recently where the two sides are constantly involved in a sanctions-countersanctions business.

One of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rivals in the presidential elections criticizes him for the military intervention in Libya, saying unrest will ensue in the African countries which will endanger the interests of Paris.

The intentional misreading of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 resulted in NATO’s violent, though predictable, ‘Operation Odyssey’ in Libya last year.

As Iran refuses to bow down to the illegitimate demands of the United States, Israel and their European allies to abandon its nuclear program, the inhumane economic sanctions against Tehran are being intensified, putting an excessive and unjustifiable pressure on the ordinary Iranian citizens who are unquestionably the victims of the West's hostility and antagonism toward the Islamic Republic.

It seems that the troubles of the regime in Bahrain keep getting bigger. A new revelation, if confirmed, may be the breaking point of the crisis that began back in February 2011.

What work of complete tyranny: to force media to act as nothing more than mouthpieces for corporations and despots. But it's not unusual and has never been so throughout history for the powerful few to arrest the resources and bend the educated classes to pay lip service to their unjust and often dictatorial rules.

Amidst the recent developments across the world, the first session of the “Strategic Cooperation Forum” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has not received much attention from the media and analysts.