. MALCOLM: Sen. Frum stands tall against Iran's apologists A handout photo provided by the office of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shows him (C) during visit to the earthquake-hit area of Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran's western province of Kermanshah, where he promised on November 14, 2017 that the government would move swiftly to help those left homeless by the disaster. Tens of thousands of Iranians spent a second night in the open after a 7.3-magnitude quake struck near the border with Iraq, killing more than 400 people. (Handout photo/AFP/Getty Images) Handout photo/AFP/Getty Images The Islamic Republic of Iran is, without a doubt, a malign  regime. If you think that’s a controversial statement, consider the following facts. Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world, directly funding jihadist organizations, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Taliban.  Iran has had its hand in deadly terrorist attacks against civ...

FSA rebels: We would have won if not for Iran Iranian soldiers have been training Syrian militias since 2012 [Atta Kenare/AFP Photo] In the summer of 2012, the leading commanders of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were confident that momentum was with them. A bomb blast deep inside central Damascus had just taken out four senior commanders of the Syrian army, including the country's defence minister, Dawoud Rajiha, and his deputy, Dawoud Rajiha, who was also President  Bashar al-Assad 's brother-in-law. The explosion, believed to have been carried out by an insider sympathetic to the opposition cause, gave hope to rebels that it was only a matter of time before Assad met a similar fate. WATCH 25:02 What is Iran's endgame in Syria? That hope was bolstered by successes on the battlefield, as ragtag groups of fighters coalesced into more effective armed groups, large swaths of the country started to come into rebel control.  Fateh Hassoun, wh...

ANALYSIS , Iranians,  neighbouring ,  theIranian,  alsothe ,  Bashar al-Assad,Houthis. Supporters of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the JCPOA) have been very active on social media this afternoon claiming that Secretary of Defense James Mattis broke with President Trump when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the United States should remain in the Iran deal. JCPOA supporters are worried that President Trump will not certify to Congress by an October 15 deadline that the JCPOA is in America’s national-security interests and that Iran is in compliance. But after the president called the agreement “an embarrassment to the United States” in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last month, JCPOA advocates are even more worried that he will withdraw the U.S. from the agreement, possibly using a plan drafted by Ambassador John Bolton, which National Review published on August 28. Prodded by JCPOA supporters, the media is playing up Mattis’s state...

ANALYSIS : The disintegrating moral fabric of Iranian society Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had nothing but contempt for the ordinary citizens of Iran. In his own words, he saw them as “ignorant, incomplete and imperfect”. Such was his contempt for those he was destined to enslave that he described them as nothing more than brutes, who would eventually destroy each other if left to their own devices. In his arrogant mind, he believed that it was only through his astute and strict leadership, they could be moulded into a unified nation. He never really recognized the people’s part in bringing him to power, such was his egotism. He believed that it was he had reached the pinnacle through his own devices, having judiciously chosen his goals by unveiling the truth of religion, through which he was able to attain a position of absolute power and would lead Iran toward eventually dominating the world. Iranians shop in a supermarket in north Tehran, Iran, on April 29, 2015. (AP)...