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Nasrallah’s dangerous strategy
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“Islam seeks believers that are aware and intelligent, not zealots who are slaves to their hallucinations.”
The quotation comes from an address by Musa Sadr, an Iranian-born cleric, who, until his mysterious disappearance in 1978, acted as a key leader of Lebanon’s ...DETAILS |
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Iran’s moment of truth
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Is it still interesting? This question concerns the forthcoming presidential election in Iran. Some believe that the decision to prevent “heavyweight” candidates from standing has emptied the exercise of whatever significance it might have claimed. This is specially the position of ...DETAILS |
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2 men who frighten the supreme guide
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It is easy to dismiss the presidential election in Iran as a charade. The exercise is flawed from the start because of the pre-selection of candidates. It is further undermined by the fact that the process is conducted from start to the finish by the government rather than an independent ...DETAILS |
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Tehran nervous as election process starts
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On Tuesday, Iran’s presidential election kick-started with would-be candidates beginning to register at the start of a 40-day sprint to polling day. By all accounts, the Tehran leadership is nervous about the whole exercise. On the eve of registration, “Supreme Guide” Ali ...DETAILS |
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Elections? Yes, if I like the results
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During a recent series of talks I gave in the United States on the Arab Spring, I was often criticized for arguing that the newly elected governments in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen should be given a chance before being subjected to a definite judgement.
In that context, Egypt, because of ...DETAILS |
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The “cursed 3” and the “supreme leader”
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During pre-television times, Iranians, especially in smaller towns, owed much of their entertainment to bands of clowns roaming the countryside. Any spot could be used as a stage: a village square, a bazaar shop-front or the courtyard of a “holy” shrine. Sometimes, the pond in a rich ...DETAILS |
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Leaders who swim against the tide
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“A voice in the desert!” was the phrase that came to mind after I interviewed Margaret Thatcher in Tehran in April 1978. The new leader of the British Conservative Party was visiting as part of a foreign policy exploratory tour that included Washington, Paris and Bonn.
The ...DETAILS |
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The art of turning neighbours into enemies
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By all accounts Azerbaijan should be Iran’s closest ally.
The tiny republic on the Caspian Sea is home to nine million people with strong ethnic, historic, and religious ties to the Iranian people. Almost 80 percent speak Azeri, an Altaic language with a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, ...DETAILS |
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Egypt: To fail, or not to fail? That is the question
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‘Let Egypt fail!’ This is the message relayed by some analysts and policymakers in Western capitals. It is countered by another message from other analysts and policymakers: ‘Egypt is too big to fail!’
Advocates of the ‘Let Egypt fail’ approach argue that ...DETAILS |
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Iran: A Clash of Religion and Nationalism
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Over the past year or so, the choice between two adjectives has developed into an important theme of the power struggle within the Khomeinist ruling elite in Tehran.
The adjectives are “Iranian” and “Islamic”.
Under the Pahlavi shahs who promoted a nationalist ...DETAILS |
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