Tag: foreign
group name: irantalk
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September 26, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
Transcript of Ahmadinejad's U.N. Speech
NPR.org, September 19, 2006 · The following is a transcript of remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the United Nations General Assembly . . . more
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April 11, 2008 11:51 AM EDT --
Iran is indicating it is more inclined than it has been to dialogue with the United States. The Iranian regime has consolidated its strength domestically. The Supreme Leader Ayatollah . . . more
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October 23, 2007 12:29 AM EDT --
The silencing of informed critics is in keeping with a deliberate policy obfuscation. There is still no official policy in place within the administration concerning Iran. While a more sober-minded national . . . more
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September 17, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
"Why was "sheik" Abu Risha so important? As the New York Times put it this morning, "Abu Risha had become a charismatic symbol of the security gains in Sunni areas that . . . more
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October 03, 2007 04:04 AM EDT --
'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508394,00.html
CHARLES HAWLEY and DAVID GORDON SMITH, Interviewers . . . more
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October 16, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
William S. Lind is one of the best American military analysts I know, a worthy pupil of Martin van Creveld, the Israeli military historian and theorist . Both have . . . more
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July 04, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
Michael Gordon (NYT co-writer with Judith Miller on hyping the Iraq War ) has another blame and hate-Iran piece in NYT: U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.’s
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/world/middleeast/02cnd-iran.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=world&pagewanted=print . . . more
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December 05, 2007 05:47 AM EST --
Defiant Bush says Iran still poses a threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2222038,00.html
December 5 2007: " President Bush insists that US foreign policy towards Iran will . . . more
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November 02, 2007 07:04 PM EDT --
3. An Arab view.
A sense of uncertainty over the effectiveness of diplomacy to avert further conflict is common in the Middle East. David Ignatius writes from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates . . . more
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November 02, 2007 07:07 PM EDT --
4. Russia's diplomatic role.
Russia considers the Middle East its traditional sphere of influence and under Putin's leadership it is re-asserting its power.
Little reported in the western . . . more
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April 07, 2008 02:26 PM EDT --
Historian Sir Michael Howard gave his farewell lecture on April 2, 2008 to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which he helped found in 1958, on the theme, 'Are we at war?' . . . more
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August 21, 2007 08:22 AM EDT --
On the weekend Pentagon adviser Stephen Biddle said the British had 'cut and run from Basra and that US forces are likely to have to go down there to "sort the mess out", by defeating . . . more
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May 30, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
US forces in Iraq will peak at around 170,000 next month and GIs in the new units are being told they could be on operations for at least 15 months. The US has told the British it is considering introducing . . . more
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August 29, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
I took the questions from the article IRAN AGAIN by David McGill .
Q- "Does President Bush have a legitimate point in blaming Iran for interfering in Iraq? Is he just jawboning, or does . . . more
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January 10, 2008 03:43 PM EST --
The recent accounts of Iranian pilot boats circling US Navy destroyers differ and it isn't clear if the US was lying or the Iranians were lying or if there . . . more
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February 19, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has had 28 electoral contests, with most representing a challenge for "Islamic democracy". Next month's contest, on March 14th, may be especially . . . more
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June 19, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
The creation of a new moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank has been welcomed in the West. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas kicked Hamas out of the Palestinian unity government last week . . . more
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July 16, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Young Iranians are pushing for change. Words and pictures by Jason Athanasiadis
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=7760
Their parents redrew the political landscape of the region . . . more
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July 22, 2007 03:45 AM EDT --
On June 25, Richard Lugar, the most respected Republican voice on foreign affairs in Congress, spoke in the Senate about "connecting our Iraq strategy to our vital interests". He observed that . . . more
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October 31, 2007 05:30 AM EDT --
"Once America's cowboys have talked their crazy talk, they have to walk their crazy walk," concludes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times about the likelihood that the neo-cons are about to . . . more
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