http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090624/FOREIGN/706239830/1002 The embattled Iranian regime is orchestrating a campaign to scapegoat “the perverted government” of Britain and other western powers for its worst crisis since the founding of the Islamic republic in 1979. The invective has mostly been aimed at…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB124563005022735881.html President Barack Obama did not “lose” Iran. This is not a Jimmy Carter moment. But the foreign-policy education of America’s 44th president has just begun. Hitherto, he had been cavalier about other lands, he had trusted in his own…
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read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-nuclear20-2009jun20,0,3004472.story Even if presidential contender and relative moderate Mir-Hossein Mousavi were to come to power, Iran’s commitment to its nuclear program wouldn’t change. But he could ease dialogue with the West. Reporting from Cairo — The widespread protests in Iran,…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1245184891821&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Many Arab governments, including the Palestinian Authority, are quietly hoping that the latest crisis in Iran will mark the beginning of the end of the radical regime of the ayatollahs and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Frustrated with Teheran’s long-standing…
read morehttp://diepresse.com/home/meinung/gastkommentar/488408/index.do Solch ein Ausmaß von andauernden Ausschreitungen gab es im Iran in den letzten 30 Jahren nicht. Nun stellt sich die Frage: Warum erst jetzt? Es gab in der Geschichte der „Islamischen Republik Iran“ kaum Wahlen und Stimmenauszählungen, die korrekt…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/iran+aktuell/136553/wer+wird+iranischer+revolutionsfuehrer Im Iran geht es nicht um die Frage, wer Präsident wird, sondern hinter dem aktuellen Konflikt steht die Frage, wer der künftige Revolutionsführer wird, meint Abol-Hassan Banisadr, der seit 1981 im Exil lebt. Abol-Hassan Banisadr wurde im Januar 1980…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1245184859050&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Yehuda Alkalai is one of Jewish history’s remarkable figures. Fifty years before Theodor Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Alkalai was agitating for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Alkalai, a rabbi who served…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061502658.html To far more people than we would like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held such weird and depraved views about Jews and the…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB124536741783129309.html SPME Editors’ Note: This Opinion piece represents the views solely of the author and is printed as a public service to the SPME Faculty Forum readership. President Barack Obama’s seminal address in Cairo marked a turning point in America’s…
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