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Conservative Factions Face Off In Iranian Elections

AP | BY NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Iran Elections 2012, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Video, World Elections 2012, Iran Hardliners, Iran, Iran Elections, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Ahmadinejad, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — The younger sister of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday failed to win a parliamentary seat in Ahmadinejad's hometown as the ...

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Iran's Oil Threat, "Deja Vu, All Over Again"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Energy, Europe, Iran, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, World, Saudi Arabia, Yogi Berra, Oil, International Energy Agency, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Parliament, Ayatollah Khomeini, Business News

Where is Yogi Berra when we need him? There is Iran going back to its old game plan, threatening to ban oil exports.

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Iran: To Bomb Or Not To Bomb, That Is The Question

Haggai Carmon | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: UK, Sanctions, Bomb, Germany, Mahdi, Oil, Iran, Un, Nuclear, US, Israel, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ahmadinejad, World News

Will the world be safe with messianic Ahmadinejad's fingers on the nuclear trigger while his other hand controls the spigots of 30% of the world's oil supply? Will reason direct his actions or will his messianic doomsday beliefs prevail?

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Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative

Ali Rahnema | Posted 10.03.2011

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Ayatollah Khamenei has now been promoted by his clerical followers to a super-human status. In certain circles, he is already being addressed as Imam Khamenei. But can combining ultimate religious and political powers guarantee tenure?

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Egypt's Power Transition: Changing Rooms On the Titanic?

Haggai Carmon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Egypt Speech, Egypt, Mubarak, Democracy, Protest, Egypt Protests, Eulogy, Middle East, Ayatollah Khomeini, Politics News

There are huge stakes in this game. Did the U.S policy makers think it through? Do they know who is riding on the back of the emerging Egyptian tiger?

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Why Historical Accounts Matter

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ayatollah Khomeini, History, Iran, President Jimmy Carter, Robert Wright, Tehran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Books News

In November 1979, while Iranian students took hostages after occupying the American embassy in Tehran, I was raising my four-year-old son and trying t...

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"Flame Off!": Hosni Mubarak and the Human Torch

Robert Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

Cairo. Midnight. The Presidential Palace. Good evening, Mr. President. Who are you? How did you get in here? And why are you on fire? The name's Jo...

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Don't Forget Iran

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Egypt, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Muslim Brotherhood, Sudan, Barney Frank, Navid Khanjani, Ali Salehi, Ali Larijani, Mahdi Akif, Zahra Bahrami, Ayatollah Khomeini, Baathist Assad, World News

There are many reasons to be skeptical that the Middle East is on the cusp of democratic transformation. But if that is the case, it's worth recalling that not every communist state in Europe was overturned in 1989.

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Mubarak's Turn

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011

Today, the situation in Egypt is not so dissimilar to that of October 6, 1981 at 1 pm. Back then, Mubarak was vice president and Anwar Sadat was president. Now, nearly 30 years later, it's Mubarak's turn.

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Reading the Shah, and Ayatollahs in Tehran and What the U.S. Should Learn From the History

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Cia, Ann Lamton, Ayatollah Khomeini, Reza Shah, The Revolutionary Guards, American Embassy in Tehran, Ali Khaenei, Mohammad Khatami, The Shah, William Sullivan, World News

What has been the root of the U.S'. inability to develop a sustainable strategy on Iran for the last 30 years? Dr. Abbas Milani, author of The Shah, and the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford answers.

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Hostage to the Past: Visiting the Former US Embassy in Iran

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, US Embassy, Ghosts of Past, Malcolm X, Wikileaks, Ayatollah Khomeini, Hostages, Spy Nest, Salt, World News

War is a profitable business, and as our economy continues its decline, we can anticipate more calls to "bomb, bomb Iran" so we can fight and spend our way to "recovery." Talk about insanity.

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Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe?

Nasim Novin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population Growth, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Youth Demographic, Demographics, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News

To anyone who is familiar with Iran's demographic troubles, the irony of Ahmadinejad's desire to increase the country's population is not lost. Rather than exacerbate Iran's demographic crisis, policymakers would do better to invest in Iran's youth.

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The Case for Attacking Iran's Nukes

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Amia, Mutually Assured Destruction, Washington, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Winston Churchill, Ayatollah Khomeini, Argentina, Middle East, Shia, Iran, Hezbollah, Cold War, UN Sanction, America, Barbara Tuchman, Nato, Arabs, American Defence, Islamic Republic, Tehran, Russia, Peace Accord, Benjamin Netanyahu, Un, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Preemptive War, Islam, Jerusalem, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, European Union, Khomeini, Hamas, Soviet Union, Palestinians, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Middle East Peace, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program, Israeli Embassy, MAD Doctrine, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Holocaust-Denier, Israel, Buenos Aires, Sunni, North Korea, World News

Some have argued that the Cold War-era mutual assured destruction doctrine would contain Iran. That is a big assumption -- specially in light of the Iranian regime's ideology.

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A Critique of Fareed Zakaria's Uninformed Commentary on Iran [Part 2]

Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Green Movement, John McCain, Iran-Iraq War, Hezbollah, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hamas, Fareed Zakaria, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News

Fareed Zakaria has been able to get more recognition for his name throughout his years as the editor of Newsweek, and now as the host of Global Public...

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Biased Journalism in The Guardian

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Islam, PMOI/MEK, Iran, Crime Against Humanity, Iranian Opposition, Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Montazeri, United Nations, Fatwa, Ayatollah Khomeini, Political Prisoners, 1988 Massacre, Amnesty International, Mujahedin-E Khalq, Media News

The Guardian recently took out the red pen and brazenly changed the wording in a piece regarding the MEK to say: "a guerrilla Sunni-Marxist movement" -- a label used by the regime to disparage the organization in the public eye.

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Who Are You Really Sanctioning, Mr. Obama?

Melody Moezzi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Islam, Iran, Iran Human Rights, Human Rights, Mehdi Karroubi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Election, United Nations, Iran Sanctions, Tehran, UN Security Council, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News

As the Iranian Green Movement plans for renewed protests marking the anniversary of the election and as the regime continues to censor media and block internet access, Obama should reevaluate his position on sanctions.

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Lessons from the Millions Mourning Ayatollah Khomeini

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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Offering something other than stark choices between American culture and Islamic totalitarian culture is incredibly important.

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Sanctions Will Make Tehran Take Notice

Meir Javedanfar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, South Korea, Middle East Politics, China, US, Meir Javedanfar, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, North Korea, World News

China has officially agreed to enter talks with Western powers about a new UN resolution against Iran, which aims to introduce new sanctions.

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Salman Rushdie Fatwa No Longer Affects His Daily Life, Author Says

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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TORONTO — Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie says the death sentence imposed on him by Iran's late leader no longer affects his daily life, but the...

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Dr. Hossein Ziai Says Iran May See Another Revolution

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Hossein Ziai is the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar chair at UCLA where he is also a tenured full professor of Islamic and Iranian studies and the d...

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Iran's Green Stubborn Streak

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran News, Iran Election, Iran Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Social Networking Sites, Twitter, Facebook, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khomeini, 22 Bahman, Islamic Revolution Anniversary, World News

what can the leaderless -- yet relentless -- opposition in Iran hope for? Without a leader, there is no revolution. Is there a fighting chance at reform?

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Iran's Impending Avalanche

Melody Moezzi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Iran Opposition, Iran Election, Imam, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News, Shiites, Politics, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Revolution Day, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Protests, Martyr, Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Home News

In addition to denoting this month in the Persian calendar, the word bahman also means avalanche. And this Bahman could set off the avalanche ultimately topples the Islamic Republic.

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Iranian Leaders Use Violence and Manipulate Legal System to Quell Opposition

Neil Hicks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi, Ayatollah Khomeini, World News

Leaders of the Islamic Republic hope to take control of the narrative of the post-election protests that have produced the deepest political crisis in Iran since the early years of the Islamic Republic.

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Cries for Democracy in Iran

Reza Pahlavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, Reza Pahlavi, Basij, Foreign Affairs, Iran Council of Guardians, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Pahlavi, Cries for Democracy in Iran, Cries for Democracy by Reza Pahlavi, Cries Democrcy in Iran, Reza, Reza Pahlavi Huffington Post, World News

The Iran issue is not about nuclear capabilities, but rather, whose finger is on the trigger. And currently, that finger belongs to a Holocaust-denying, brutal regime that kills its own people.

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The 21st Century's First Authentic Revolution

Mahmood Delkhasteh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamic Revolution, Iran Uprising, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Protests, World News

The violent confrontations in Iran this week, which resulted from widespread resistance to the brutality of the regime's various security forces, have shifted the balance of the struggle towards the people.

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