21 posts tagged Irán
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Israel Can Stand Up for Itself
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=19499By Zev Chafets, who served as director of Israel’s government press office under Menachem Begin and he is the author of A Match Made in Heaven, about American evangelical support for Israel (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13/04/08): The failure of diplomacy to stop Iran’s nuclear program became obvious this
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The Holocaust Declaration
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=19463By Charles Krauthammer (THE WASHINGTON POST, 11/04/08): On Tuesday Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges — they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon — in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world yawned.
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The Iran Problem
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=19459By David Ignatius (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/04/08): The language that Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker used yesterday to describe the Iranian role in Iraq was extreme — and telling. They spoke of Tehran’s “nefarious activities,” its “malign influence” and how it posed “the greatest long-term threat to the viability” of the Baghdad government.
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Unpopular populist
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=19186By Robert Tait, the Guardian’s former Iran correspondent (THE GUARDIAN, 15/03/08): Forced absence may make the heart grow fonder and, for me, reports about yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Iran intensified what were already poignant emotions. I should, after all, have been there covering them.
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Suffering and suffrage in Iran
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=19046By Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 (THE TIMES, 03/03/08): The suffragettes have been an inspiration for countless women around the world. This month it will be exactly 80 years since their momentous struggle led to the Bill for full women’s suffrage being presented to Parliament.
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Iran’s Small Boats Are a Big Problem
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=18518By David B. Crist. He served in the Marine Corps reserves in Iraq in 2003 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/01/08): The confrontation this month in the Persian Gulf between Navy warships and small boats of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard may have come as a surprise to the public at large, but not to me.
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Bush: Iran threat to world security
http://jonkepa.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 01/ 13/ bush-iran-threat-to-world-security/George Bush, the US president, has described Iran as the “leading state sponsor of world terror” that must be confronted “before it’s too late”. Speaking in Abu Dhabi on the fifth stop of his Middle East tour, the US president accused Tehran of undermining peace in Lebanon, sending arms to the Taliban, defying the UN and destabilising the entire Middle East.
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The Right Way to Engage Iran
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=18238By Michael McFaul, a professor of political science at Stanford University and Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian studies program at Stanford. Both are fellows at the Hoover Institution (THE WASHINGTON POST, 29/12/07): As the year draws to a close, it’s important to note that the U.S.
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How to Defuse Iran
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=17997By Flynt Leverett, a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and Hillary Mann Leverett, a former director for Iran and Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council, is the chairman of Stratega, a
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Third World War cancelled
http://www.almendron.com/ tribuna/ ?p=17929By Gerard Baker (THE TIMES, 07/12/07): This just in: the Third World War has been cancelled. Iran, a founder member of the Axis of Evil, once deemed to be bent on world domination at the point of a nuclear weapon, turns out to have been about as threatening as a teddy bear.