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Promoting democracy, particularly in the Middle East, has been a very important question in the Bush administrations through the Bush’s very courageous Forward Strategy of Freedom, as it also has been a controversial subject in the United States...
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Anyone trying to get on Twitter was in for a surprise last night when they were redirected to a page that was definitely not Twitter’s, although in my case, I was...
made popular Dec 19 2009
It’s not clear who the Iranian Cyber Army is, or if the group is actually responsible for sabotaging Twitter. During the unrest that followed Iran’s...
made popular Dec 18 2009
Fake “North Korean” missiles have been hurtling over the Pacific toward the U.S. for years, providing test fodder for the Pentagon’s missile-defense...
made popular Dec 18 2009
The failure of the international community to reach a deal with Tehran is sparking fears of an atomic arms race in the volatile and oil-rich region.
While the West may...
made popular Dec 17 2009
For many months now, American and European intelligence agencies have been trading theories about a spare, two-page document written in Persian that, if genuine, would...
made popular Dec 16 2009
When millions of Iranians took to the streets following June’s presidential elections, their main target was Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the hardline president they accused...
made popular Dec 15 2009
The Iranian state broadcaster, Irib, has been accused of faking dramatic footage of an anti-government protester setting fire to a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini,...
made popular Dec 14 2009
Tehran University students have been filing into their classes past giant posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and the stern slogans of the Islamic revolution for the last 30...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, urged Latin American countries on Friday to “think twice” about establishing links with Iran, which she said is...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Thursday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country’s most prominent university...
made popular Dec 9 2009
On Wednesday, November 24, Iranian demands that female nurses don the hijab in response to Iran’s providing $1.2 million for funding of the new El Alto city hospital...
made popular Dec 9 2009
Six months after Iran’s disputed presidential election the bloodied and battered opposition movement refuses to give up. On campuses across the country yesterday tens...
made popular Dec 8 2009
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, has introduced a “good neighbours” foreign policy that has tilted the axis of Ankara’s diplomacy in...
made popular Dec 7 2009
It is important to remember what Bush and the neo-conservatives promised in Iraq. Not only would Iraq be a flourishing democracy, but it’ll serve as a democratic...
made popular Dec 7 2009
His first impulse was to dismiss the ominous email as a prank, says a young Iranian-American named Koosha. It warned the 29-year-old engineering student that his...
made popular Dec 4 2009
A 26-year-old doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from a delivery salad laced with an overdose of blood pressure medication,...
made popular Dec 3 2009
It looks like makeup is now un-Islamic and therefore against shariah law, so Iranian women have been told they cannot wear makeup if they appear on tv. I wonder if that...
made popular Dec 3 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Tehran is reviewing the option of decreasing cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog after it issued a...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Iran’s paranoia never fails to amaze me. It seems anyone who happens to inadvertently stray into Iranian waters or cross the Iranian border is automatically...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Foreign and Commonwealth Office sources last night confirmed that five British sailors have been detained by the Iranian Navy while sailing a yacht from Bahrain to...
made popular Dec 1 2009
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The former Republican administration of President Bush put previously some conditions, particularly the suspension of uranium enrichment, for starting a direct dialogue...
made popular Jan 30 2009
Authoritarian governments and regimes always depend on concentrating national wealth and resources in their hands. This means to put those resources and financial...
made popular Nov 24 2008
It is a matter of fact that the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes fear the truth, therefore, they fear even the mere words and ban the free opinion and expression....
made popular Nov 19 2008
The current Middle East, which is sill living the era of Cold War and Soviet legacy with its stable authoritarianism, is suffering a sustainable situation of political...
made popular Nov 15 2008
It is indicative that the former U.S. Secretary of State Albright advised the democratic elected president to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq while Ahmadynajad was...
made popular Nov 8 2008
The totalitarianism constitutes one system. The totalitarianism has one nature in many aspects and shapes; it pragmatically develops a reciprocal structure and unified...
made popular Nov 6 2008
In my last piece, I suggested that the Middle East is going into uncertainty; especially that it has missed the chance of change immediately after the end of the Cold...
made popular Oct 25 2008
To understand the censorship system, we should understand the totalitarian and authoritarian systems, and the essential association between the censorship system and...
made popular Oct 13 2008
Americans, caught up in the daily struggles of their own lives would be astonished to discover the degree and amount of news coverage America receives in the press of...
made popular Jul 1 2008
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