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Why Iranian Sufis Do Not Believe in Tehran’s ‘New Diplomacy’

  The ascension of Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani supposedly represented a “period of hope.” That may be true for Western negotiators hoping to spend more time in Geneva, but not for the Sufis and other religious minorities of Iran, whom the regime in Tehran continues to repress. Sufis, let us first observe, are not the […]

The stream of love and the adherence to ancient traditions

  We live in the time of global communication with access to plenty of information and still we have so little knowledge on certain subjects or because we have access to plenty information we sometimes are confused by various interpretations and deliberate misinformation. This speech contains material that resulted from more than 20 years of […]