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the war was unscathed: Motta Gur. He, too, had been in Washington. Within days of the inquiry report, he was called back to replace Dado as chief-of-staff. My role changed, too. Not everyone emerged from the war with his reputation diminished. The lion’s share of the credit for...

…lah'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 these different identities. Hezbollah's ideological commitment to Iranian Ayatollah R...

CHAPTER 1 Tinker It’s like the boiling frog. You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty ... you can come to justify it. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 DWARD JOSEPH SNOWDEN was born on June 21, 1983, in Eliza- beth City,...

44 CHAPTER THREE Tinker “Tt’s like the boiling frog. You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty... you can come to justify it.” —Snowden in Moscow, 2014 Edward John Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 in Elizabeth City, N...

…me. Riyadh remains concerned that Iran is manipulating Shiite sentiments and the desire for reforms in order to further Iranian foreign policy objectives. Manal al-Sharif—an information technology expert—was detained for five days on Sunday on charges of disturbing public order....

…not always harmful. In fact, it is often highly adaptive. Angelic denial In a nationally televised address in 2005, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pronounced that the Jews had "created a myth in the name of the Holocaust and consider it above God, religion and the prop...

Tunisia and certain other countries have another sense for the Iranian nation.... This is the same as 'Islamic Awakening,' which is the result of the victory of the big revolution of the Iranian nation," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran also broadcast speeches by Hezbollah's le...

…ke any Western state. In this model the highest goal is regime survival, a notion that doesn’t necessarily apply to the Iranian clerical regime. Clerics, even Christian ones from an earlier age, have been known to take their otherworldly prerogatives seriously. All we can say, t...

…in 4Q12. However, a weaker USD due to QE3, ongoing social turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa and the risk that Iranian tensions have the potential to heat up after the US presidential elections are likely to keep the oil price at around USD 105-110/bbl in 6 months. In ad...

…hran not to pursue a nuclear weapon, Washington must reassure Khamenei that the United States merely seeks a change in Iranian behavior, not a change of the Iranian regime. What they fail to consider is Khamenei's deep-seated conviction that U.S. designs to overthrow the Islami...

…a cold that day. Before Michael and I flattened our recliner chairs for the big sleep, I told him I felt confident his Iranian film, "A Separation" was winning best foreign picture. He told me "The Artist" would take best picture and director. Actor was a tight race between Bra...

…'t frequent prostitutes and drink alcohol they would appear to be [terrorists] and raise suspicions.” In essence, the Iranian regime's approach toward sex, like its philosophy of governance, is marked by maslahat, or expediency, and used alternately as a tool of suppression, in...

…ourism mecca of Pattaya, one arm around a hookah, the other around a hooker. In its ongoing shadow war with Israel, the Iranian side’s lone “success” was the July 18 bombing of a Bulgarian bus carrying Israeli tourists — though European investigators last week officially attribut...

….S. leaders could persuade others to go along, which would mean convincing them that U.S. forces could shield them from Iranian and Iranian-proxy retaliation, or at least substantially weaken its effects. Coalition warfare would present a number of challenges to the U.S. governm...