Tag: iran
group name: politicstoday
|
December 17, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
From the J-Post, on what I consider to be good news:
Rafsanjani, one of Ahmadinejad's main opponents, gained almost two times more votes than the presidential candidate Mohamad-Taqi Mesbah- Yazdi, . . .
more
|
|
December 16, 2006 01:21 PM EST --
If this article is anything to go by Ahmedinejad and his uber-conservatives are going to have a bad day in Tehran. It appears that Ahmedinejad's candidate for the Council of Experts is in sixth place . . .
more
|
|
November 01, 2006 06:14 AM EST --
Before Father and I left for Iran I told myself I would not post about politics. I'm still very hesitant to do so, mostly because people will think I have 'gone native' if I do. But sometimes . . .
more
|
|
July 22, 2006 08:03 AM EDT --
I guess that we all should have seen this coming, Iran's going to stop the war in Lebanon. And as Hizbollah is one or there puppets the attempt will also fail just to show the world that Hizbollah . . .
more
|
|
September 15, 2006 03:58 PM EDT --
Is Iran a legitimate and direct threat to the citizens of the United States of America? Why or why not?
more
|
|
December 14, 2006 12:17 AM EST --
Friday Iran will hold mid-term elections for the Assembly of Experts and municipal elections. Ahmedinejad was once mayor of Tehran, so municipal elections are important. This year's elections pit rival . . .
more
|
|
September 29, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON (SR) - Unidentified sources in the White House claim President Obama has drafted a series of escalating actions meant to pressure Iran into ceasing their uranium enrichment activities.
The . . .
more
|
|
December 19, 2006 04:59 PM EST --
Many people have asked me, in the wake of my recent trip to Iran, “do last week’s elections really matter?” Today, as the results pour in, they’ve begun asking “how are the . . .
more
|
|
September 17, 2006 11:53 AM EDT --
Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote an interesting article in the Washington Post on cronyism with Coalition Provisional Authority(CPA). The CPA ran Iraq's government from April 2003 to June 2004, the critical . . .
more
|
|
March 25, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
Here is a quote from Sunday's associated Press regarding Bush's reckless, arrogant, and out-of-touch attitude.
GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) of Nebraska, a member of . . .
more
|
|
January 10, 2007 11:35 PM EST --
There are just three brief points concerning the president's speech tonight that, it seems, call into question the level of judgment - or the motives - involved.
First of all, it has been reported . . .
more
|
|
May 28, 2007 11:40 AM EDT --
The fact that in recent news the U.S. government is using a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of 9/11 to carry out bombings in Iran undermines the . . .
more
|
|
April 06, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
I was reading some of the criticism thrown out by bloggers regarding how easily the Brittish soldiers "caved in" and disgraced their country by repeating what they were told to say on . . .
more
|
|
December 14, 2006 06:24 PM EST --
Steve Clemon's has a whopper of a story today:
While reports of how far Bandar has gone in supporting Cheney's desire for military action vary, insiders report that Bandar has "essentially . . .
more
|
|
May 29, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
In the heart of Baghdad's Green Zone, US and Iranian diplomats posed for the cameras yesterday. It was the biggest break in nearly three decades in the deep freeze between Washington and Tehran. But . . .
more
|
|
December 20, 2006 05:50 AM EST --
The war in Iraq will likely cost the American taxpayers $170 billion this fiscal year, if Bush requests another $100 billion in February, as he is widely expected to. That works out to $19.5 million per . . .
more
|
|
November 27, 2006 05:34 PM EST --
Here are two (here and here) recent Iran items worth discussing.
First, Maziar Bahari writes for the Washington Post's 'Post Global' blog. Aside from a few grammatical errors his post implies . . .
more
|
|
February 03, 2007 07:06 PM EST --
. . . by anyone or any politician on Iran is contained in this one simple headline from today's Los Angeles Times:
U.S. can't prove Iran link to Iraq strife
Same goes for the nuke program. . . .
more
|
|
September 18, 2007 09:18 PM EDT --
From the "no one should be surprised about this" file:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sep 18, 2007 13:54 | Updated Sep 19, 2007 0:56
'Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical . . .
more
|
|
January 29, 2009 12:42 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (SR) - At the direction of President Obama, the U.S. State Department is drafting a letter to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, conveying regret for past sins, and promising a new . . .
more
|
|
|
|
