09/07/2009 Article

Tehran Troubles

The troubles that followed the Iranian Presidential elections have been misread by the Western press and policymakers.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Iran

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An edited version has been published by the LA Times syndicate and also appears in The New York Times. The troubles that followed the Iranian

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20/06/2009 Article

Liberty Leads the People, Even in Tehran

America did not elect Obama simply because we hoped he would be a realistic president. We elected him because he talked in ideals.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Democracy, Iran

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Bitter Lemons, June 18, 2009 We in the “the West” have a special place in our traditions for anniversaries. We celebrate two important ones just

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11/06/2009 Article

The Essence of Islamist Resistance: A Different View of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamists

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Article posted in New Perspectives Quarterly, June 2, 2009 Most Western analysts of political Islam make the same mistake. They instinctively assume that conflict with

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30/04/2009 Article

The Answer is Always Clausewitz

That war takes lives is not pertinent; organized killing is a specious fact undampened by good intentions.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration

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Bitter Lemons, April 30, 2009 The wry and oft-repeated saying among senior American military officers is always good for a laugh: “no matter what the

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07/02/2009 Article

Imagined Affinities, Imagined Enmities: The Strange Tale of Iran and Israel

Ben-Gurion evolved the concept of the “alliance of the periphery” aiming to balance the vicinity of hostile Arab states.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Iran, Israel, Middle East

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Le Monde diplomatique, February, 2009 The early Zionists never believed they would be accepted in the Arab world and pinned their hopes on the non-Arab

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01/01/2009 Publication

Western Media Representations, Iran, and Orientalist Stereotypes

/ Seyed Mohammad Marandi

Tags: Iran, Media

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The image of Iran is almost always negative in the western media. Whether it is the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, the International Herald

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22/01/2008 Article

Nasrallah Forecasts the Prospect of Coming Conflict

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Tags: Bush Administration, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria

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On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is

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14/10/2007 Article

Ticking Clocks and ‘Accidental’ War

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East, Syria

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An edited version of this article appeared in the October edition of US/ME Policy Brief, US/Middle East Project. Whilst Washington looks at the Iranian prospects

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17/05/2007 Article

Maliki and Sadr

/ Baghdad Correspondent

Tags: Bush Administration, Iran, Iraq, War in Iraq

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American troops entering Baghdad on April 9, 2003 noted the strange quiet that enveloped large parts of the city. While Baathist gunmen continued to launch

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