Posted in Iran, Nuclear on Sep 30th, 2009 Comments Off on Secret of Qom
From MESH Admin The New York Times has produced this interactive graphic about the no-longer-secret uranium enrichment facility at Qom in Iran. Click here if you cannot see it below. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2009/0928-slug/BasicStepper.swf” width=”550″ height=”475″ wmode=”transparent” /]
Posted in Iran, Nuclear, Raymond Tanter on Sep 30th, 2009 Comments Off on Iran’s diplomacy of delay
From Raymond Tanter As the Obama administration prepares for October 1 negotiations with Iran, Tehran steals a page from Pyongyang’s playbook: escalate confrontation in advance of engagement. Why not? Escalation to win concessions and backtracking on promises have worked for North Korea. On September 27, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps conducted war games that included […]
Posted in Islamism, Soner Cagaptay, Turkey on Sep 29th, 2009 Comments Off on Free media will save Turkish democracy
From Soner Cagaptay Turkey’s experiment with Islamists-turned-democrats might be coming to a tragic end. When the Justice and Development Party (AKP), rooted in Turkey’s Islamist opposition, came to power in Turkey in 2002 and declared that it had become a democratic movement, nearly everyone gave it the benefit of doubt. At that time, the party […]
Posted in European Union, Gal Luft, Geopolitics, Iran, Oil and Gas, Pakistan, Turkey on Sep 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on How to beat Iran’s pipeline strategy
From Gal Luft While Washington is mulling over what to do next in order to weaken Iran economically, this summer the Islamic Republic has taught us a lesson in strategic maneuvering, taking major steps to bolster its economy and geopolitical posture by positioning itself as an indispensable energy supplier to hundreds of millions of people.
Posted in Iran, Mark N. Katz, Military, Russia on Sep 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on Russia, America, and Iran—Again
From Mark N. Katz Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s most recent statement that the Holocaust is a myth and denouncing Israel is an indication that he does not see U.S. President Obama’s call for dialogue and improved relations with Iran as desirable from his perspective.
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Raymond Tanter, United Nations on Sep 22nd, 2009 Comments Off on UN ponders, Iranians sacrifice
From Raymond Tanter The opening of the UN General Assembly in New York provides advocates of human rights an additional forum to embarrass President Ahmadinejad of Iran for his serial violations of the rights of Iranians at home and abroad. A hunger strike by 36 Iranian dissidents, taken hostage by Iraqi forces, continues into its […]
Posted in Books, Culture on Sep 14th, 2009 Comments Off on ‘From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Meir Litvak is senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, and Esther Webman is a research fellow at the Moshe […]
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