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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21770/iran-agents-sweden

The “Iran Experts Initiative” (IEI)… was first proposed in 2014 by… a member of the internal think tank of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, the “Institute for Political and International Studies” (IPIS).

Ali Vaez and Ariane Tabatabai… were also members of the IEI.

How can all these prominent think tanks and influential experts enter into cooperation with IPIS, which — apart from being an integral part of the Iranian regime — organized a Holocaust conference in 2006 featuring Holocaust deniers such as David Duke and the neo-Nazi German National Democratic Party (NPD)?

The purpose of the IEI for the Iranian regime has been to establish a number of reputable and knowledgeable contacts who support the idea of a “nuclear deal” — which, in the long run, means that the regime in Iran will get nuclear weapons — and to promote Iran’s perspective on this nuclear deal and its desired structure in Western Europe and North America.

[T]he Swedish Security Service considers Iran to be one of the three countries that pose the greatest threat to Sweden.

Does anyone seriously believe the mullahs’ lies that they do not want to build nuclear weapons?

If the mullahs truly wanted peace, they would dismantle their support for terrorist organizations, abandon their ambitions to build nuclear weapons, stop pouring resources into fueling conflicts in neighboring countries, and cease spreading hatred toward the Western world.

The door must be closed to these lobbyists for the Iranian regime…. The mullahs’ regime is an enemy of the West, but the mullahs’ lobbyists must be treated as enemies, too.

On January 31, Sweden’s TV4 reported that leaked documents from Iran’s Foreign Ministry linked Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi, head of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, to a network initiated by Iran’s Foreign Ministry, with the aim of increasing the country’s influence in the West. Since 75% of the funding for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs comes from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard (pictured), demanded more information regarding these allegations. (Photo by Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)

On January 31, Sweden’s TV4 reported that leaked documents from Iran’s Foreign Ministry linked Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi, head of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, to a network initiated by Iran’s Foreign Ministry, with the aim of increasing the country’s influence in the West.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21773/designate-al-jazeera-terrorist-organization

Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, Al-Jazeera has been openly serving as the unofficial mouthpiece of Hamas and its military wing, Izaddin al-Qassam.

Even before the war, Hamas’s political and military leaders often chose Al-Jazeera to spread their propaganda and call for jihad (holy war) against Israel.

Hamas knows it can trust Al-Jazeera: the two share the same radical Islamist ideology that calls for the elimination of Israel and replacing it with an Islamist terror state.

Hamas does not need its own television station. It has Al-Jazeera, one of the most influential and wealthiest TV networks in the Arab world. This is what happens when most of the funding comes from Qatar, which has used its ties with Islamist groups, especially Muslim Brotherhood, as soft power to boost its regional and global influence.

Al-Jazeera, for its part, has been extremely protective of its friends in Hamas. The television station does not allow any criticism of Hamas or Qatar. When a Palestinian dares to criticize Hamas during a live interview, Al-Jazeera quickly cuts off the interview.

Last year, Israeli security forces disclosed intelligence information and numerous documents found in the Gaza Strip that confirm the military affiliation of six Al-Jazeera journalists with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the second-largest terror group in the coastal territory.

One does not have to be an expert in journalism or the Middle East to understand that Al-Jazeera is nothing but a terrorist organization masquerading as a media outlet.

A number of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain understand the dangers of Al-Jazeera.

That is why they have shut the offices of Al-Jazeera, blocked its websites and demanded that Qatar curb the television station. Even the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Mahmoud Abbas… suspended Al-Jazeera’s broadcasting in the West Bank….

Why do some Americans and Westerners still consider Al-Jazeera a credible and professional media station if so many Arabs view it as an organ of Islamist terrorists and Jihadis? … It is time to designate Al-Jazeera as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

On June 18, the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera TV network (in Arabic) broadcast another “exclusive” video of a speech by Abu Obaida, the masked spokesman of the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas.

This is the group that started the current war in the Gaza Strip, when thousands of its members invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and wounding thousands. Another 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 50 are still held captive. At least 20 of those hostages are believed to be alive.

It did not come as a surprise that the video of the Hamas spokesman was first broadcast on Al-Jazeera. Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, Al-Jazeera has been openly serving as the unofficial mouthpiece of Hamas and its military wing, Izaddin al-Qassam.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/20/we-are-coming-apart/

It’s been almost a year since the Southport massacre. That sunny morning, etched forever in infamy, when Axel Rudakubana committed his barbaric, depraved murders of three young girls at a dance class in the Merseyside seaside town. It sparked the worst anti-migrant riots Britain has seen in modern times, fuelled by false claims Rudakubana was a Muslim, small-boats asylum seeker. But to anyone who had been paying attention, the seeds of that horrific unrest were sown long before that.

Before Southport, Middlesbrough, Rotherham and many more towns and cities descended into nihilistic violence last summer, with peaceful protests being overrun by racists and opportunists trying to burn down migrant hotels and pelting mosques with bottles and bricks, there were plenty of signs that something was about to snap.

In Knowsley, also in Merseyside, in February 2023, a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers was leapt on by troublemakers and turned into a riot. The protest was called after a young girl was allegedly propositioned by a migrant on the street. This detail was naturally omitted in much of the mainstream media’s coverage, even though local media had covered it and the police were investigating. The true blame, the broadcasters piously intoned, lay with ‘misinformation’.

This pattern keeps repeating itself. A violent or sexual crime allegedly committed by a migrant causes tensions to flare, while the media and politicians play dumb. We saw it again in Ballymena last month, where the attempted oral rape of a girl by two Romanian Roma boys was followed by days of rioting, first targeting the homes of the alleged rapists before spilling over into undiscerning racist rage – visited upon innocent migrants, too. Heartbreakingly, members of the area’s thriving Filipino community took to putting signs on their doors, bearing Union flags and the words ‘Filipino lives here’, in the hopes they would be spared from the carnage.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/20/therell-always-be-an-england-but-will-it-be-free/

Sitting here in London, I wonder what Ross Parker and Hughie Charles would think if they could join me for a pint. I suspect that the authors of the famous 1939 song “There’ll Always Be An England” would be puzzled, not to say alarmed, over some recent developments in this green and pleasant land.

“There’ll always be an England,” these songsters wrote, “and England shall be free/if England means as much to you/as England means to me.”

But the question is, does it? Does England mean as much to the ruling establishment as it once did? The words “free” and “freedom” are repeated several times in “There’ll Always Be An England.” That’s the theme, the hope, the conviction: that Britain would triumph because of its native love of freedom.

How do things look now? Let me introduce you to two recent developments that would have astonished Messrs. Parker and Charles—police tracking of “non-crime hate incidents” and a so-called “banter ban” that is on the threshold of becoming the law of the land.

The practice of recording “non-crime hate incidents” by the police became law in June 2023. Ponder this:

Where there is no criminal offence, but the person reporting perceives that the incident was motivated wholly or partially by hostility, the incident will be recorded as a non-crime hate incident. Police officers may also identify a non-crime hate incident, even where no victim or witness has done so.

I added the italics to underscore the surreal, Orwellian nature of the practice. If you say something mean about somebody, prepare to have your remarks—or even just your “whole or partial” hostility recorded and put into an official database that might then be scrutinized by prospective employers.

Who or what oversees this database? The College of Policing, a private company that provides guidance for the police forces of England and Wales. Recording such incidents is not required by Parliament. Rather, it is part of the increasingly vast, quasi-governmental surveillance apparatus that has grown up in formerly free countries, such as the UK.

The College of Policing defines “hostility” as the expression of “ill-will,” “ill-feeling,” and “dislike.” This means, a paper for the Free Speech Union notes, “that certain thoughts are now being policed.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21756/europe-avarice-cowardice-iran

Iran’s reach does not stop “just” with assassinations and terror cells. The regime is now a key player in one of the most significant wars in Europe since World War II: the Russia-Ukraine war.

The “EU3” — France, Germany, and the United Kingdom — still have the legal authority to initiate this “snapback” mechanism. If they act before October 18, 2025, they can reimpose the full slate of UN sanctions on Iran that were lifted as part of the flawed 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “nuclear deal.” These sanctions include restrictions on Iran’s missile program, military exports and financial networks. Tehran has not only violated the JCPOA — it has blown it to pieces

Europe is actually pretending to stand for democracy and human rights while doing business with the “world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.”

It took decades to build the international sanctions regime that US President Barack Obama tragically dismantled in 2015 with the JCPOA. Letting that structure collapse completely would be… an invitation for Iran to continue rebuilding its path toward nuclear weapons without consequence.

Beyond the snapback mechanism, the EU might sever all diplomatic and economic ties with the Islamic Republic; close every Iranian embassy in Europe; expel every Iranian ambassador; cut all trade deals, freeze all assets, and sanction every official linked to the regime’s terror apparatus. Maintaining business as usual with Iran only emboldens its rulers by signaling to them that the EU is unwilling to confront danger when it sees it.

The European Union has remained in a state of diplomatic paralysis, watching from the sidelines as the United States and Israel have shouldered the burden of confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran.

While American and Israeli leaders are taking real, tangible risks to counter the threat posed by Tehran and its vast global network of terror, European officials have chosen the path of appeasement, delay, cowardice and greed, all the while bashing Israel for coming to its rescue instead of thanking it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/18/calls-for-charges-over-lord-balfour-portrait-vandalism/

Campaigners could push for a private prosecution of the pro-Palestinian activist who vandalised a portrait of Lord Balfour at Cambridge University.

The portrait of the former British foreign secretary, who famously supported a homeland for the Jewish people, was spray-painted red and slashed with a knife by a protester last year.

Trinity College said at the time: “[We] regret the damage caused to a portrait of Arthur James Balfour during public opening hours. The police have been informed. Support is available for any member of the college community affected.”

Roderick Balfour, the fifth Earl of Balfour and the great-nephew of Lord Balfour, told The Telegraph last year: “It’s very alarming that we have people who feel entitled to attack the totems of our culture and history.

“There appears to be no respect for the country that has educated them, that has allowed them the lives they have.”

The Telegraph has approached Trinity College for comment.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/17/the-world-woke-up/

In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.

The unthinkable has become the banal.

Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden?

Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.

Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration.

It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws—and a new president.

How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?

Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?

And now?

In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.

Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans—especially white males—that they were not systemically racist after all.

Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?

Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to five percent.

Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance.

What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly fifty years?

Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates—Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis—were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.