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Cold Winds in Cairo

From On November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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When I was living in Cairo, the transition to winter was sometimes smooth. The beastly oven of summer changed slowly into a bearable fall of cool-warm. The fall moved from the cool-warm to a few weeks of cold, or at least what was cold to Egypt. These were smooth changes. It [...]

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Khamenei Likely to Hold Onto Weakened Ahmadinejad

From On October 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Yasaman Baji

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Amid growing and increasingly harsh criticism of his handling of the economy, talk of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s removal has regained momentum in Iran in recent weeks.

But, according to most observers, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is unlikely to back any move to shorten Ahmadinejad’s term, [...]

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Yet Another Neocon call to arms by Playing Victim and Avoiding Responsibility

From On October 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The neoconservative hawk and deputy editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens, has once again figured it all out. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979, and no US president since then, including Ronald Reagan and George [...]

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