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The Gulf Can't Deal with Iran Until Iran Deals with Itself

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Cia, Iran Election, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Madeleine Albright, Mossadegh, Al Qaeda, United Arab Emirates, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

The GCC is looking at an Iranian government that has lost a great deal of credibility, both locally and internationally, and has yet to figure out how to deal with itself.

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CNN Praises a Dictator

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Kerry, Media, Sanjeev Bery, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Election, Khomeini, Bery, Media News, Shah of Iran, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah, Iran, Savak, Cnn, cnn.com, Iranian Democracy, John Kerry, Mossadegh, Cia, Operation Ajax, Media Bias, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.

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CNN's Navarrette Gets Iran Wrong

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Iran, Ruben Navarrette, Cnn, Obama, cnn.com, Barack Obama, Stephen Kinzer, Sanjeev Bery, Eisenhower, Iranian Democracy, Cia, Ayatollah Khomeini, All the Shah's Men, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, British Colonialism, Iran Protests, Reza Pahlavi, Decolonization, Britain in Iran, John Kerry, Iran Election, Shah of Iran, Operation Ajax, Savak, San Diego Union-Tribune, Ahmadinejad, Dwight Eisenhower, Mossadegh, Navarrette, Media, Shah, Kerry, Khomeini, Bery, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.

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Khamenei Crosses the Rubicon, Becomes the 'Great Satan'

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Eisenhower, Iran, Truman, Mossadegh, Khamenei, John Foster Dulles, Alan Dulles, World News
Paul Abrams

In order to understand the significance of Khamanei's decision, it helps to recall what the United States did in 1953 to earn the moniker of the "Great Satan".

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Facing the Bushes' Iranian Whirlwind

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stolen Election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah, Schwarzkopf, Iranian Election, Mossadegh, Politics News
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

The parallels between the stolen Iranian election of 2009 and the American of 2000 and 2004 are tempting. The histories -- and futures -- of the two nations are inseparable.

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Obama: The Roger Federer of Politics

Scott Malcomson | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Gdansk, Islam, Al-Andalus, Cordoba, Napoleon, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, Barack Obama, Mossadegh, Poland, Jena, The Holocaust, Kojeve, Solidarity, Roger Federer, Obama Cairo Speech, Andalusia, World News
Scott Malcomson

Each man raises the level of play with a cool focus and economy of gesture that make most other players look crude.

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