February 8, 2025
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The Italy/Islamists files: File 2. The Sala/Abedini exchange and the relations between Italy and the Iranian regime – December 2024/January 2025

by Giovanni Giacalone Mohamad Abedini Najafabadi’s arrest On December 16th 2024, Iranian citizen Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi was arrested by the Italian authorities on US request after landing at Milan’s Malpensa airport. As indicated in the press release of the DOJ, Abedini and his colleague Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi (who was arrested in Massachusetts) have been charged […]

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The Italy/Islamists files: File 1. Najeem Almasri and the GNA connection – January 2025

by Giovanni Giacalone On January 19th, 2025, Libyan police chief and director of Tripoli’s infamous Mitiga detention center, Najeem Almasri, was arrested by Italian authorities on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Libya from February 2015 onwards. On January 21st, three judges of […]

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Everything you need to know about the Abedini/Sala deal

by Giovanni Giacalone The Sala-Abedini negotiation fiasco, certainly not a “diplomatic success” for Italy Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi (38), the Iranian engineer arrested on December 16th in Milan on US request was released shortly after 9 am on Sunday January 12th, 2025, at the request of the Italian Minister of Justice, Caro Nordio. The judges of […]

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The Abedini/Sala negotiations. Italy’s hash that could harm relations with the United States

by Giovanni Giacalone On January 3rd, 2025, Cecilia Sala’s family requested media silence regarding the case because the current stage is sensitive and the public debate on what should be done (or not) could extend the time and make a solution more complicated and distant. The 29-years-old Italian reporter Cecilia Sala was kidnapped by the […]

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Southeast Asia

The New Security Dilemma in Afghanistan Amid Race for Ascendancy

by Maryam Noureen Janjua The killing of Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister for Refugees and Repatriation, at the hands of ISIS (Islamic State of Khorasan Province or ISKP), underscores the growing and evolving security dilemma facing Afghanistan. This assassination, carried out by a terrorist group that the Taliban had previously tolerated, reflects not only […]

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Europe Israel Middle East

The New Italian Communist Party: the “clandestine” group with a public website threatening US military facilities

by Giovanni Giacalone An unusual case has been taking place in Italy lately and it directly influences the safety of many, including the US military installations located on Italian soil. A far-left clandestine formation known as “The New Italian Communist Party” (NPCI), certainly not new, but on sleeping mode for quite a few years, suddenly […]

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Hamas threatens Germany

by Stefano Piazza For a long time Germany seemed to be just a haven for Hamas. That changed after the attack on Israel. The federal prosecutor general has now indicted four men who apparently planned attacks.The four men, Abdel Hamid A and Ibrahim El-R, born in Lebanon, and two Egyptians, Mohamed B and Nazih R, […]

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Europe Russia

Interview with Craig McKay: Digging into the Mysteries of the Comintern

by Irina Tsukerman Recently, Craig McKay came out with a fascinating new volume with three major essays exploring the history of Comintern from a unique perspective. The blurb reads: “If you are curious about the clandestine world of the Comintern, you may find my new book, Three in One, Essays on the Comintern, of real […]

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Will Europe treat the Pasdaran as terrorists?

by Stefano Piazza According to some sources within the European Union there is a legal basis for declaring the Iranian Pasdaran a “terrorist organization.” It all starts with the sentence handed down on December 19, 2023, by the Sixth Criminal Senate of the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf, under the direction of Higher Regional Court […]

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The US DOT sanctioned Hamas fundraiser Mohammed Hannoun. Is Italy going to intervene?

by Giovanni Giacalone On October 7th, 2024, exactly one year after the massacre perpetrated by Hamas against Israelis in the south of the country, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three individuals and one sham charity that are prominent international financial supporters of Hamas, as well as one […]

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