…The problem is a political one, but sectarianism is a winning card for them," says Jasim Husain, a senior member of the Wefaq Shiite opposition party in Bahrain. Since March 14, the regional cold war has escalated. Kuwait expelled several Iranian diplomats after it discovered an...
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From: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Sent: 2/11/2013 5:45:09 PM To: Larry Summers_______________________ Subject: prep for dinner, israel pres briefing / The Wall Street Journal The Ayatollah Always Says No Editorial February 8, 2013 --The Farsi word for "no" is na h, wh...
a senior member of the Wefaq Shiite opposition party
From: Sent: To: Subject: rt cle 1. Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] 2/15/2013 12:42:34 AM Larry Summers as you asked The Washington Post In State of the Union address, Obama lays out his second-term agenda Editorial February 13, 2013 -- TWO DOMESTIC concerns towered above...
June 2017 Breaking Down Democracy: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians by Arch Puddington CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction: Modern Authoritarians: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook 5 Chapters 1. Validating Autocracy through the Ballot 10 2. Propaganda at Hom...
reality is often messier. In part, that has to do with compartmentalization of Hezbollah's covert activities. It is also, however, a result of the group's multiple identities -- Lebanese, pan-Shiite, pro- Iranian -- and the group's multiple and sometimes competing goals tied to t...
to openly discussing his intention to form a “majoritarian government” that would exclude the most important Sunni representatives. In mid- December he participated in creating a Shiite grand alliance as the launching pad for that government. The principal Sunni political leaders...
Perhaps it's not entirely surprising that Iran's Shiite fundamentalists -- not unlike their evangelical Christian, Catholic, Orthodox Jewish, and Sunni Muslim counterparts -- spend an inordinate amount of time pondering sexuality. They are human, after all. But the sexual manias...
bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, who is Sunni, arrested for alleged terrorist activities on Dec. 20 — almost exactly one year after he ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi’s security detail. Hashimi fled to Turkey and is unlikely to return s...
? began demanding a constitutional monarchy or even the outright ouster of the Al-Khalifa family. Many protesters saw these as reasonable responses to years of empty promises to give the majority Shiites a real share of power—and to the vicious government crackdown that had kill...
Ennahda, which captured 41 percent of the vote in the elections, promised to cooperate with secular parties and show respect for pluralism. Instead, it is sending muddled messages. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali made a conciliatory gesture by proposing a temporary non...
which has a large population of Shiite Muslim
the Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Lebanon was not just targeting Israeli
Saudi and Iran, powerhouses of Sunni and Shiite Islam respectively, presently support opposing sides in many of the Middle East’s major confrontations, and are often seen as having radically divergent and competing visions for the future of the region. Which is why, in Lebanon —...
bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, who is Sunni, arrested for alleged terrorist activities on Dec. 20 — almost exactly one year after he ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi’s security detail. Hashimi fled to Turkey and is unlikely to return s...