Tag Archives: Iran

What To Make of China “Brokering” the Saudi-Iran Deal

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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Al-Qaeda and Global Terrorism: What is the Current Threat?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 February 2023

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Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022

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Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2022

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Islamic State Announces That Caliph Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi Is Dead

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2022

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Western Self-Hatred and the Iranian Revolution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 November 2022

The late Bernard Lewis recorded in his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian (2012), meeting the Shah of Iran “a year before” the Islamic Revolution that felled him, thus, some time in early 1978:

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The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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The Third Speech of Islamic State Spokesman Abu Umar al-Muhajir

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2022

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