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Is Iran the Winner of the War in Iraq?

Is Iran the Winner of the War in Iraq?

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By Sarah Wildman, Foreign Policy Correspondent
Source: Politics Daily
September 1, 2010
As Barack Obama appeared on television Tuesday [...]

SPIEGEL Interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister: ‘The West Lacks Political Maturity’

SPIEGEL Interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister: ‘The West Lacks Political Maturity’

Source: Spiegel Online
August 30, 2010
In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, 57, discusses the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of Western sanctions against Iran and the risk of a military strike against his country.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Foreign Minister, you are the senior diplomat of the Islamic Republic of Iran. You [...]

Arab Iranians suffer cultural marginalization

Arab Iranians suffer cultural marginalization

Ahwazi movie goers go for satellite channels
By Ramadan al-Saedi
Source: AlArabiya
August 30, 2010
LONDON – Several movie theaters in the predominantly-Arab Ahwaz city in Iran have been shut down as audiences preferred staying at home and watching Ramadan T.V. serials and programs on satellite channels.
The expansive prevalence of satellite channels in the southwestern [...]

Oh Lord: Why Iran’s National Search Engine Will Likely Fail

Oh Lord: Why Iran’s National Search Engine Will Likely Fail

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
August 29, 2010
August 29, 2010 According to various reports, Iran will launch its own national search engine by 2012.
From “The Jerusalem Post”:
Hadi Malek-Parast, Director General for Research and Development at the Iranian Information Technology Company, told the Iranian Mehr News Agency on Sunday [...]

Neda’s mother appeals for help in finding killer

Neda’s mother appeals for help in finding killer

Source: CNN
August 30, 2010
Tehran, Iran – The mother of the 26-year-old woman whose videotaped shooting last year in Tehran sparked anti-government demonstrations throughout Iran appealed Monday to international human rights organizations and to the international court in The Hague for help in prosecuting her daughter’s killer.
“I have kept my silence [...]

Beneath Iraq, Afghan, Israel Policy: Iran, Iran, Iran

Beneath Iraq, Afghan, Israel Policy: Iran, Iran, Iran

By Gerald F. Seib
Source: The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
August 31, 2010
When President Barack Obama speaks to the nation Tuesday night about Iraq, he’ll be marking the removal of American combat troops from that nation, an important milestone. But his address will signify something much broader as well.
This week’s Iraq moment means that [...]

Iraq’s Remains of the Day

Iraq’s Remains of the Day

By Ambassador Marc Ginsberg
Source: The Huffington Post
August 30, 2010
On Tuesday evening, President Obama will address the nation to mark the end of America’s official combat role in Iraq. He will speak from the Oval Office as Vice President Biden — hurriedly dispatched to Baghdad yet again — is warning squabbling Iraqi [...]

Secretary General of the Kurdish Democratic People: The Lesson of the War in Kurdistan

Secretary General of the Kurdish Democratic People: The Lesson of the War in Kurdistan

By Khaled Azizi
Source: Rooz Online
August 28, 2010
On the Occasion of the 31st anniversary of the war in Kurdistan
These days offer excellent and instructive reminders in the history of the people of Kurdistan and Iran. Thirty one years ago a war that later came to be known as the “Kurdish War” began. It [...]

Obama’s policy on Iran’s nuclear project will work fine. Until the nukes go off

Obama’s policy on Iran’s nuclear project will work fine. Until the nukes go off

By James Corum
Source: Telegraph
August 28, 2010
Since the founding of the republic, the consistent objective of American foreign policy has been to safeguard the national security and to further vital national interests. Often there was a lack of understanding as to the nature of the threats to the nation, and there [...]

KAHLILI: Iran goes nuclear

KAHLILI: Iran goes nuclear

The West vacillates while Armageddon approaches
By Reza Khalili
Source: The Washington Times
August 27, 2010
Russia turned on the switch to Iran’s first nuclear power plant on Aug. 21 after repeated delays and more than 15 years of construction. The hard-liners in Iran celebrated it as a victory over “the Great Satan,” repeating the famous phrase by Ayatollah [...]

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