http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/opinion/19iht-edhooglund.html?_r=1 Is it possible that rural Iran, where less than 35 percent of the country’s population lives, provided Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the 63 percent of the vote he claims to have won? That would contradict my own research in Iran’s villages…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/opinion/15mon1.html There is no transparency or accountability in Iran, so we may never know for sure what happened in the presidential election last week. But given the government’s even more than usually thuggish reaction, it certainly looks like fraud. Although…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061402399.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 NO ONE outside the inner precincts of Iran’s power structure knows who won that country’s presidential election Friday. It’s possible that a majority voted to reelect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as he claims. It’s also possible, as much of his opposition…
read morehttp://www.slate.com/id/2220520/ For a flavor of the political atmosphere in Tehran, Iran, last week, I quote from a young Iranian comrade who furnishes me with regular updates: I went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what…
read morehttp://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2009/06/death_of_the_islamic_republic_in_5_acts.html?hpid=topnews The Islamic Republic of Iran is dying a sad, angry death. In its place, we will probably get what one cleric has called the “Islamic Government” of Iran. The difference is not merely semantic. The genius of the Islamic…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=3007&TTL=Is_the_Palestinian_Authority_Stable_Enough_for_Peace_Talks ? Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s agreement to remain as PA prime minister defied the unprecedented opposition to his new PA government by both Hamas and the Fatah movement. While Fayyad’s stellar reputation in the West as a…
read morehttp://diepresse.com/home/meinung/kommentare/leitartikel/486892/index.do Wien (OTS) – Der Triumph von Präsident Ahmadinejad riecht nach Betrug. Das wäre nicht nötig gewesen. Denn auch ein Sieg der Opposition hätte die wahren Machtverhältnisse in der “Mullahkratie”kaum erschüttert. Demokratie sieht im Iran so aus: Erst sorgt der…
read morehttp://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092466.html According to reports emerging from Iran’s election supervisory agencies, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad garnered at least twice the number of votes compared to that of his main rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi. Even when factoring in the number of forgeries, irregularities,…
read moreWohltuender Eklat im Pariser Prozess um den Foltermord an Ilan Halimi: Daouda Fofana, der Bruder des Hauptangeklagten, Youssouf Fofana, richtete einen moralischen Bannstrahl gegen den bekennenden Judenhasser und Mörder von Halimi. Gleichzeitig erlitt die „Anti-zionistische Liste“, die bei den EU-Wahlen…
read morehttp://www.inss.org.il/research.php?cat=5&incat=&read=2980 President Obama’s June 4 speech in Cairo continued to illustrate his basic approach towards the international arena. In previous speeches, particularly those in Europe, Latin America, and Ankara, the president explicitly or implicitly apologized for past American mistakes, promised…
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