Many Iranians take to the streets, to celebrate the election of Dr. Hassan Rohani.

The ongoing crisis in Syria clearly proves that the European Union has not yet found a correct answer to the question about its reaction to such crises as the one in Syria and how it is planning to overcome challenges that emanate from these crises.

Hassan Rohani has been declared the winner of the June 14 presidential election with 50.7 percent of the vote in an election which saw 72.7 percent voter turnout. 

As was expected, Iranian people created a new epic event through their massive turnout in presidential election on Friday. Although most analysts speculated before the election that as a result of inconclusive votes won by candidates, there would be a runoff, the final result clearly proved that Mr. Hassan Rouhani had won an absolute majority of the votes as a result of which the presidential poll reached the finish line in the first stage. 

June 14, 2013, is the day when the Iranian people will go to the polls for the 11th time after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in order to elect their new president for the next four years. Perhaps, this is one of those rare occasions when no expert or observer can surmise with an acceptable margin of accuracy that who would be the next president.

In recent days, supporters of Iranian presidential candidates have been taking to the streets to campaign for their favorite candidate.

I believe that the political demonstrations in Turkey do not conform to the known model of the Arab Spring, but are more similar to protests launched by the American people in what has come to be widely known as the Wall Street Movement.

After the beginning of Arab Spring, the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization has undergone an important change in strategy. As a result of that change, Al-Qaeda has excluded the United States and other Western powers, which it previously considered as “far enemy,” from its new strategy. Instead, the group has focused on the “near enemy,” that is the Arab countries in the region.

As armed conflicts escalate in Syria, the measures taken by the member states of the European Union with regard to crisis in the Arab country have gradually distanced from purely relief operations and the EU no longer seeks to end the crisis through peaceful means, but is bent on bringing about regime change in Syria. 

The possibility of a real military confrontation between Iran and Israel has been reduced to a minimum due to a host of obstacles and challenges. Therefore, it seems that positions taken by Israeli officials on a possible military attack on Iran are more for propaganda purposes and lack actual operational value.