January 21, 2012
The badly kept secret of Israel’s trade throughout the Muslim world An Haaretz article by Shuki Sadeh Motti (not his real name ), a businessman with connections in Arab countries, was stunned several months ago when representatives of a well-known Israeli food company asked him [...]
Tags: Allot Communications, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Israel, LinkedIn, Saudi Arabia, United States
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January 14, 2012
A policeman checks the remains of a bombed car belonging to Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan on a blood-stained ground at the blast site outside a university in northern Tehran January 11, 2012. (Reuters/Fars News/Meghdad Madadi) If you are one of those who thrive on watching spy and action propaganda that the US dishes up [...]
Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Central Intelligence Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Iranian Revolution, Israel, John Sawers, Tehran, United States
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December 13, 2011
Where is Iran’s nuclear program going? I do not know. By Deepak TripathiA few days ago, I revisited a lecture given by Fred Halliday, FBA, an intellectual giant among scholars of Middle East and Cold War history, at the London School of Economics in 2009. His topic was “The Islamic [...]
Tags: BBC World Service, Central Intelligence Agency, Fred Halliday, Iran, Iranian Revolution, London School of Economics, middle east, Tudeh, United States
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December 1, 2011
Suggested Topics UK Europe Robert Fisk: Sanctions are only a small part of the history that makes Iranians hate the UK ROBERT FISK WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2011 inShare7 PRINT A A A EMAIL Latest in Robert Fisk Robert Fisk: ‘The real fight for democracy in Egypt has yet to begin’ Robert Fisk: Sanctions are only [...]
Tags: Iran, Iranian Revolution, Kurt Waldheim, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Shah, Tehran, United States
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November 9, 2011
Enlarge The reactor building of Iran‘s Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen in this 2005 file photo. (Vahid Salemi/AP/File) Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979. Breathless predictions that the Islamic Republic will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability, or – worse – acquire an actual nuclear bomb, [...]
Tags: Bushehr, Enriched uranium, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Islamic Republic, Israel, middle east, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, New York Times, Nuclear program of Iran, Shimon Peres, West Germany
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August 11, 2011
Iran has named a street in central Tehran after Rachel Corrie, an American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed in 2003. Photograph: Denny Sternstein/AP Tehran city council has named a street after an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, a local newspaper has reported. [...]
Tags: Gaza Strip, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Israel Defense Forces, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Rachel Corrie, Tehran, United States
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July 6, 2011
Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona. (Photo by Getty Images) Despite being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), since its 1979 revolution and especially over the past 10 years, Iran has come under unprecedented scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear [...]
Tags: Atoms for Peace, Enriched uranium, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Nuclear facilities in Iran, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear program of Iran
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July 3, 2011
Death Doctrine by John Tirman July 2011 Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and Angola were the three rings of the Reagan Doctrine, the war by proxy, and none turned out well. The former president’s support of despots and violent insurgencies guaranteed a future of errant, and deadly, U.S. foreign policy. Photograph via Flickr and Marion Doss, by Michael Evans, [...]
Tags: Iranian Revolution, Khmer Rouge, National Archives and Records Administration, Reagan Doctrine, Republican, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, United States, United States Armed Forces, Vietnam
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June 22, 2011
Hezbollah and the Arab revolution The group’s leader keeps his ear close to the ground, bonding with the dispossessed and speaking their language. Heralded by millions of fans as ‘the mastermind of the resistance’ – and demonised by the US and Israel as a ’terrorist’, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah‘s rhetoric towards Syria is equally divisive [GALLO/GETTY] Is [...]
Tags: 2006 Lebanon War, Arab people, Bashar-al Assad, Gamal Mubarak, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Iranian Revolution, Lebanon, Musa Al-Sadr, Ruhollah Khomeini, Syria
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