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The US drive to isolate Tehran is unrelenting but there is little evidence Iran’s leadership will change its ways By Simon Tisdall Source: Guardian October 21, 2010 The US is quietly ratcheting up economic and financial pressure on Iran amid signs that talks about Tehran’s suspect nuclear programme could resume next month. These two developments [...]
By Dieter Bednarz, Markus Brauck and Antje Windmann Source: Spiegel Online October 18, 2010 ozens of Iranian journalists are languishing in prison with scores more having recently fled the country. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime has been aggressive in its pursuit of critics — and increasingly, foreign journalists are being rounded up as well. Mohammad Ghouchani, [...]
Thousands of Hezbollah sympathizers welcomed the Iranian president in Lebanon, but at home, even his supporters are questioning his economic policies. By Zvi Bar’el Source: Haaretz October 20, 2010 On his trip to the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was greeted by thousands of Hezbollah sympathizers who held [...]
By Reza Taghizadeh Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 19, 2010 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is due to visit Tehran this week in the wake of visits to Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. While Chavez unveiled a host of new deals while in Moscow, in Tehran the best that awaits him is reconfirmation of agreements [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 18, 2010 In February, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced the arrest of seven members of “counterrevolutionary satellite network organizations and Zionist media,” whom it said were affiliated with the opposition Green Movement. The ministry said the detained, whom it accused of having been trained in “various soft subversion and [...]
By Ahmed Al-Jarallah Source: Arab Times October 19, 2010 THE recent visit of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to Saudi Arabia was a step in the right direction. It was aimed at strengthening coordination between the two nations through an in-depth discussion of ways to stabilize the region. It was a clear manifestation of the high [...]
By Michael Ledeen Source: Pajamas Media Faster, Please! Blog October 18, 2010 I’ve received many questions about the recent explosion at a Revolutionary Guards base near Khorramabad (near the Iraqi border) that reportedly killed nearly twenty Guardsmen and, according to some accounts, destroyed several new Shehab missiles. The regime described it as an accident, but [...]
By Amir Taheri Source: Asharq AlAwsat October 18, 2010 No one knows what political epitaph would eventually describe Mahmound Ahmadinejad’s colourful tenure as President of the Islamic Republic in Iran. However, judging by his Panglossian optimism, which borders on naiveté, one may suggest the following: ‘ He was undone by his illusions.’ To hear him [...]
By Tariq Alhomayed Source: Asharq AlAwsat October 16, 2010 Ahmadinejad’s first visit to Lebanon has adjourned, and we saw how Hezbollah’s guest did not throw any stones at Israel, and did not even visit Fatima Gate [former border crossing between Lebanon and Israel]. In fact, other than Ahmadinejad’s defense of Hezbollah in the face of [...]
