Bahrain's most prominent cleric has censured normalization with Israel, saying the process runs contrary to the fundamental principles of the Palestinian cause.
In 2009, well before the Arab Spring began, Iranians rose up against their regime in what became known as the Green Revolution. Their uprising failed. So how do they and the Iranian regime feel about the wave of uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year? Mona Sarkis met Ali Granmayeh, a former Iranian diplomat, to find out
Bahrain’s top Shia cleric emphasizes that the burring of a copy of Holy Qur’an in Sweden by an extremist and radical individual has “nothing to do with freedom of opinion and speech.”