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…aid. Fashi was executed in May 2012. About the same time, Iran’s intelligence minister announced the arrest of 14 more Iranians, eight men and six women dubbed members of the “Terror Club” in the subsequent_prime- time broadcast of that name. Filmed in shadow, and rich in atmosp...

… With sanctions appearing to work (Iran’s inflation, currency collapse, fewer buyers of its oil and a potential ban on Iranian banks from the global SWIFT payments network), won’t the US want to wait and see? Most of the US military establishment seems to take this view. The c...

…hout boots on the ground. Meghan O. 1. Iran’s reaction to fall of Assad. Look to 2007 actions agains Iran. Didn’t have Iranian ‘pay back’ rather, Iran slowed down its nuke activity 2. Post Assad, need a peace keeping force. That will be critical. Post assad Syria will be very, v...

…Arab Spring, only Saddam’s Iraq, Jordan, the elder al-Assad’s Syria, Iran-Iraq war, the bin Laden campaign in Iraq, the Iranian Islamic revolution and the Turkish-Kurdish conflict caused 1.65 million Muslim deaths by Muslims compared to less than 50,000 deaths in the Arab-Israeli...

…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 would win Best Foreign Film. He told me The Artist would take Best Picture and Director. Actor was a tight race between Brad Pitt, Jea...

…elieves that ever-tougher sanctions will cause Iran to cave in at the talks, it’s likely that they are badly misreading Iranian politics. For many observers, however, and for Iran, too, the nomination of Hagel for secretary of defense may be a sign that the White House is beginn...

…e, cruel, and unforgiving, particularly now that we know that members of his own cabinet clearly wanted to do more. The Iranian nuclear issue, the other potential tar baby in the SOTU, followed a pretty predictable rising arc of concern in the list of presidential foreign-policy...

…David Gregory announcing that he was going to eat a bagel before moderating Meet the Press) to international conflicts (Iranian citizens reporting on the uprising against their repressive government). It occurred to me that there could be classic haiku tweets—three lines consisti...

…cceed him. The corruption allegations levelled by Mr Ahmadinejad against the Larijani family are deeply damaging to the Iranian regime. Mr Morsi, meanwhile, has little to show Egyptians that he has improved their lot. Cairo is the scene of near-constant street battles and the ec...

…policy goals, and Iran's claim to regional hegemony. There are four likely outcomes to the nuclear issue: a unilateral Iranian decision to halt or dramatically slow its progress toward a nuclear weapon; a negotiated outcome, whether through the P5+1 (1.e., the five permanent mem...

…8-BEF5-63798EAC5103 Message: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-shipping/u-s-warns-merchant-ships- of-possible-iranian-attacks-in-middle-east-idUSKCN1SG1MX Sender: e:[email protected] Time: 05/10/19 11:42:57 PM (579249777) Flags: 1085445 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No G...

…iations between now and June than the United States was in 2012. But what is clear is that the sanctions have moderated Iranian behavior and rhetoric. At the same time, as the Times also noted, the economic pressure is not nearly great enough to compel concessions that the regime...

24 East. The Iranians evidently hoped that militancy against the west, above all on behalf of the Palestinians, could counteract the league-of- outsiders aspect of their alliance. For a while, this project appeared to be working. The Iran-created and sponsored Hezbollah movement...

…coln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in early May in response to intelligence regarding Iranian military activity. 11 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026955 Source: Investment Strategy Group, navy.mil, New York Times.

… lose?” But beyond this, there is a whole range of relatively moderate countries — and, as Sunni states, strongly anti-Iranian countries — which share with Israel a real, practical interest in putting in place a new political arrangement in the Middle East. So does the United St...