Muharram and Islamic Revolution 3
Jihad, self-sacrifice, martyrdom, and struggle against oppression and injustice constitute the core and focus of Shiite thought and jurisprudence. At the head of this school and ideology there have also been the Innocent Imams, Shiite scholars and clergies, and other religious elders. As a matter of fact, the spirit of jihad and martyrdom is one of the political, ideological values of Shiites
Sunday, 19 February, 2012
A look at the performance of the Organization of Islamic Conference 2
Muhammad Rad Mard
The important thing is that what has united Islamic countries within this organization is not so strong. Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is, in fact, a castle in the air. Even the issue of Palestine that was apparently the root cause of its creation has turned into a scene for rivalry and struggle among the members. Meantime, it is short-term interests of the rulers, and not Islamic states, that have found importance
Thursday, 16 February, 2012
Maryamolsadat Amir Shakarami
Recent events in the Arab world and popular uprisings flowing from Islamic Awakening in the form of Arab Revolutions are among issues that have an undeniable significance in the mechanism of Israeli policy-making. It’s important to note that Israeli system of policy-making has thereafter been dealing with an important issue like the role of the popular uprisings in the Arab countries of the Middle East and its implication for the inhabitants of “the occupied lands”. So, the focus of the present writing is to explore the reactions of Israeli officials in the face of this incident. It also deals with this issue that whether Israeli fear of these events and their consequent threats will lead to probable changes in its policy-making or cause it to increase its violent actions
Wednesday, 01 February, 2012
Leila Khamseh
Reza Shah introduced another type of tribalism that was not in nature different from that of Qajars and other Iranian dynasties, but brought many damages to people. Extending the hand of friendship towards foreign powers and linking his interests with that of foreign states, he not only created a different structure of tribalism in Iran, but prepared the ground for presence and direct interference of Western states in domestic affairs of Iran. As a matter of fact, modern tribalism in Iran that came to its climax during the Second Pahlavi era, especially during the years after coup of 19 August 1953, originated in policies of the First Pahlavi Regime. This type of tribalism was far more destructive than the first one
Thursday, 05 January, 2012
A review on the performance of the Islamic Conference Organization
Mohammad Radmard
Established in 1969, ICO potentially has a high capacity in adapting international policies. ICO in recognized by UN and is the only governmental-religious organization in the world. The documents of the two organizations are as the documents of one another right now. Also in official meetings of the two organization, one representative from the other organization is present. (1)
But the truth is that the OIC was never able to act as an international organization as it could. Thus this article is to investigate the structure and organs of the organization. So first of all the structure and performance framework of state members will be explained and then some critiques will be brought up on that
Tuesday, 27 December, 2011
Muharram and Islamic Revolution 1
Muharram is the month in which the Master of Martyrs Imam Hussein rose up against taghout (the false god) to teach human beings construction and firmness. He did sacrifice and was sacrificed to annihilate the oppressor and the very same motif is the Islamic guideline for our nation forever . Sahife Noor, vol. 2, p. 11
Wednesday, 21 December, 2011
Qasem Babaii
However, an essential issue considering democracy is that this type of governance has been organized, from the very beginning, according to processes and needs of Western societies and so its application in other societies requires some requisites that are mostly absent there. As a result of blind imitation, it is usually observed that establishment of democratic institutions in other countries has failed to bring the very same results obtained in Western societies and have remained as unoriginal methods incompatible with native structure of them
Tuesday, 20 December, 2011
Qolam Ali Soleimani
Because of tribe-centric society of Yemen, tribes play a fundamental role in political structure of this country. Multiplicity of tribes, their political, cultural, and religious tendencies, and the background of conflicts between them provokes struggle between current elites. While few evidences supporting the probability of a tribal conflict have been found during the revolution, Ali Abdullah Saleh and his advocates are trying, by turning the revolution of Yemeni people into a civil war, to create misgiving among masses that in case of any power vacuum in Yemen, tribal unrests will endanger security of people
Wednesday, 14 December, 2011
Ladan Akbari
Resolution 598 was a milestone in the flow of the UN Security Council’s positions on Iran-Iraq War, and given to the fact that in its introduction the Council had asserted its determination to terminate the war and had referred to Articles 39 and 40 of the UN’s charter, was regarded mandatory. Moreover, since the resolution had covered a great portion of Iran’s demands specially regarding introducing the invader and its obligation to pay compensation, and Iraq was, on the other hand, willing to put an end to war, it was adopted by the parties
Saturday, 03 December, 2011
Anatolian Islam and liberal neo-Ottomanism
Muhammad Saqafi
Years ago and during the rule of secularists over Turkey, a female MP of Turkish Parliament was at the threshold of cancellation of her letter of credential due to veil wearing. At those days which were coincident with the early days of Reformist Government in Iran, pro-Islamic Republic newspapers and tribunes advocated her for perseverance over this Islamic symbol, but later in an interview, she declared her dissatisfaction with this support and called Islamic Republic of Iran an enemy of freedom
Thursday, 01 December, 2011