theglobeandmail.com - 2/22/2009
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Enlarge Image Former Iranian president and Presidential candidate Mohammad Khatami reacts during a meeting Feb. 14 with supporters in Tehran. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)
atimes.com - 2/24/2009
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Sex, drugs and Islam By Spengler Political Islam
returned to the world stage with Ruhollah Khomeini's 1979...
revolution in Iran, which became the most aggressive patron of Muslim radicals outside its borders, including Hamas in the Palestinian ...
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The Enemy That Almost Isn't
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
... Fantastic article and push back on the meme that Iran is the next big enemy. Do yourself a favor and read this. Too bad it's not from an American paper. ...
Afghanistan: When Will the “Experts” Remember the Geneva Conventions?
Firedoglake —
... of the NSN statement also write those ISAF statements – or is this just standard “expert” language, language which ignores both our Geneva obligations and the suffering of the Afghan people.
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Three Must Reads for the week:
Dubhaltach's Oxdown diary When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains has some very useful resources as well as comments from his recent time serving there
Douglas Saunders's "Iran: the enemy that almost isn't" in the Globe and Mail and,
Gareth Porter's ...
Instahoglets Sunday
Newshoggers.com —
... - In 2003, G. W. Bush missed the biggest Middle East peace opportunity of the decade, just so he could keep saying ‘axis of evil.'” But, Doug Saunders writes, America might get a second chance at changing Iran from threat to friend. ...
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May: Please Squeeze the Mullahs
article.nationalreview.com 3/6/2009 — Need an idea on how exert soft power? A shortage of imported gasoline would further weaken Irans already unhealthy economy.
Omid Memarian: Is Dennis Ross Iran's real envoy?
huffingtonpost.com 3/1/2009 —
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But, but . . . We've DONE All That
corner.nationalreview.com 1/29/2009 — I'll keep this short, in the interests of my impressive blood pressure. There are two "stories" about Iran/U.S. relations bubbling around. One has to do with direct talks, the other with Ahmadinejad's demand that we apologize for our many past ...
The Obama administration finds a bomb in Iran
pajamasmedia.com 2/13/2009 — [The following is a guest post from "TigerHawk," cross-posted here with permission from Richard, who is on the road. The story seems important, and has received scant attention in the media or blogosphere.]
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Obama's Iran strategy —
L.A. Times - Politics 2/22/2009
The Obama administration is likely to opt for a policy of containment in the event that Tehran acquires nuclear capabilities.
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