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Wikileaks Exposes Iran’s Secret Revenge on Iraqi Pilots For 1980s War
ABC News: A brief paragraph in the mountain of Wikileaks documents shed a sliver of light on what officials claim is a viscious and coldly efficient Iranian campaign of revenge on Iraqi air force pilots who bombed Iran during the … Continue reading
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The Cables that Call for Attacks on Iran: An Alternative Analysis
My recent Tehran Bureau article: With WikiLeaks’ release of over 250,000 confidential diplomatic cables between the US and its allies, politicians and specialists on Iran are falling over themselves to highlight Iran’s regional isolation and the threat posed by its … Continue reading
Sanctions pinch UAE-Iran trade (video)
See the al-Jazeera video here.
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Ahmadinejad Visits Lebanon
[There is a rally organized in south Beirut, a Hizbullah stronghold. There is no footage of the event yet, but it should be interested. I went to one such rally 2 years ago when I was in Lebanon and it … Continue reading
Iran and Iraq remember war that cost more than a million lives
The Guardian: Nostalgia is not the right word to describe how Iranians and Iraqis feel when they look back at the epic war they fought – one of the longest and bloodiest of the 20th century. It began 30 years … Continue reading
Neocon War Plans Undermine Iranians’ Quest for Democracy
The Huffington Post: The “Bomb Iran” crowd, fresh off their historic blunder in Iraq, is now at it again with Iran. As if the daily drumbeat of articles and op-eds advocating war with Iran was not enough, Republicans in the … Continue reading
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Forget Harvard—one of the world’s best undergraduate colleges is in Iran
Newsweek: In 2003, administrators at Stanford University’s Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult Ph.D. entrance exam, getting some of the highest scores ever. That the whiz kids weren’t American wasn’t odd; … Continue reading
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Documentary: “For Neda”
This highly emotional HBO documentary on the death of Neda Agha Soltan is a must see.
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Iran Time Magazine Covers
Speaking of Iran being on magazine covers (see the post below this one)… here are most though not all of the issues of Time Magazine with Iran on the cover. Did I mention that when I was an undergraduate, I … Continue reading
Fareed Zakaria on the possibility of regime change in Iran
This is one of the few times you’ll see me agree with Fareed Zakaria. Here he speaks about the possibility of regime change in Iran and sharply and convincingly criticizes McCain’s wishful thinking.
Green Movement: One Year On
My friends in Iran say that Iran was dead today and that nothing happened on the streets. Of course, they couldn’t be everywhere at all times. Here’s footage of a protest at Sharif University. Here’s footage of a protest at Tehran … Continue reading
Iran: The Twitter Devolution
Foreign Policy – Excerpt: But it is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right. Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran. As Mehdi Yahyanejad, the manager of “Balatarin,” one of the Internet’s most popular … Continue reading
World Cup 2010
Football fans of the world unite! World Cup 2010 is here at last. For us Iran football fans, disappointment occurs often, yet we will never forget 1998, the underdog story behind Iran’s bid to qualify for the tournament and it’s … Continue reading
The World Economic Crisis and an Insulated Iran?
al Jazeera – Excerpt: However, Iran’s nuclear technology has advanced faster than expected and a 2007 report by the US government accountability office (GAO) found that “since 2003, the Iranian government has signed contracts reported at about $20bn with foreign … Continue reading