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Is Iraq shifting to Iran?
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
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A recent fact-finding trip to Baghdad and Najaf suggests that such fears are exaggerated. In 2003, the United States overturned the secular but predominantly Sunni Arab regime of Saddam Hussein and then presided over the installation of a more representative...
Tags: Iran, Shiite, Iraq, Tehrān, Fertile Crescent, Saddam Hussein, Najaf, Politics
Who are the citizens of Europe?
Dresden :: OH :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Europe needs a binding moral foundation not a pan-European referendum, argues Alfred Grosser The Irish referendum raises many questions. Now I don't mean the ones concerning the circumstances of the 'No' vote. Questions such as: Was the economy slowing...
Tags: European Court of Justice, European Union, France, Germany, Britain, Iran, Brussels, Paris, moral foundations, Dresden, Referendum, Accession of Turkey to the European Union, United Kingdom European Constitution referendum, Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland Bill, Politics, Treaty of Lisbon, Direct democracy, Elections
The Tortured Reasoning of Oppression
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility Since 1998 the 26 June has been set aside by the UN as a day to stand with the tortured, to feel their pain and to work towards eradicating torture. Torture, often excused by its perpetrators as a necessity, is nothing more than a tool for repression...
Tags: Israeli Occupation, human rights, hegemonic regime, Iran, Tehrān, Philosophy of law, Human rights abuses, Oppression, International Day in Support of Torture Victims, Uses of torture in recent times, Torture, Violence, Morality, Politics
UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility The Iranian boy, known for legal reasons as Child M, has been locked up in Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire, the UK's main immigration removal centre for women and families, since he was arrested with his mother and older brother in Manchester this week. They...
Tags: Yarl, Iran Mother, Islamic Republic of Iran, satanic verses, old boy, Iran, Tehrān, Immigration detention, Salman Rushdie, Bedfordshire, Immigration to the United Kingdom, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
MIDEAST: Turkey Gets Boost from Pipeline Politics
Ankara :: Turkey | 14 days ago
Credibility The political geography of the modern Middle East has been affected for one hundred years by the appetite of westerners and other outsiders for the region's hydrocarbons. On Monday, the region's "pipeline politics" took another step forward with the signing...
Tags: Turkey, Nabucco, Iraq, Muslim Middle East, Arab Middle East, Middle Eastern, Iran, nabucco project, AKP, Azerbaijan, Ankara, Kurdistan, Nebuchadnezzar II, Kurdish people, Nabucco pipeline, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Politics
Energy independence most important priority
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility The result will be a worldwide shortage of oil from which nations like Russia, Mexico and Venezuela will benefit, while the rest of the world finds itself in a catastrophic social and economic tailspin. What is the Obama Administration doing to mitigate...
Tags: America, Iran Nukes, energy independence, Middle Eastern, Iran, Tehrān, Arab-Israeli conflict, Presidency of Richard Nixon, oil crisis, Oil well, Chronology of world oil market events, Petroleum politics, Petroleum, Energy crises, Politics
LTO to conduct transport inventory in Boracay in a bid to solve traffic woes
Mālāy Sheykh-e Gīnklīk :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is set to conduct an inventory of land transportation systems in this resort island so it could study how to decongest the traffic. Valtimore Conanan of LTO-Aklan, said that he had received the green light from the...
Tags: resort island, Task Force Boracay, LTO, Land Transportation Office, Iran, Mālāy Sheykh-e Gīnklīk, Aklan, Radio-frequency identification, Ati, Visayan Islands, Malay Aklan, Boracay, Environment
H1N1 becomes marketing tool
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility Taking advantage of swine flu fears, companies are advertising products that make claims of being effective against the H1N1 virus and other germs. But doctors warn to be wary of unfounded claims made by some products in the marketplace, and to be aware...
Tags: SFDA, air purifier, market tool, Iran, Tehrān, Swine influenza, Influenza pandemic, Influenza, Pandemics, flu pandemic, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
Focus on arty Asian marvels at Tokyo's FILMeX festival
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility X is increasing its load from 39 films to 61 this year, to celebrate its 10th year. The flicks will be screened with English subtitles and the festival includes a newly added Korean film showcase. Solely selected for its creativity and originality, the...
Tags: Tokyo, Iran, Tehrān, Bahman Ghobadi, Cheang Pou-Soi, No One Knows About Persian Cats, Accident, Hong Kong, films, Filmex, Takeshi Kitano, Entertainment Culture
UN committee targets Iran's rights violations
Tehrān :: Iran | 14 days ago
Credibility A key UN committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election. Citing arbitrary arrests, detentions and the disappearance of Iranians exercising their...
Tags: Iranians, U.N. Committee Slams Iran, Brazil, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, presidential elections, president mahmoud, Venezuela, Iran, Tehrān, Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian presidential election, Government of Iran, Politics of Iran, Politics, Social Issues, Capital punishment in Iran, Canada￢ﾀﾓIran relations, United Nations Human Rights Council, Iran ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, International reaction to the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel, Antisemitism, Shimon Peres, Foreign policy of the Hugo Chￃﾡvez government, Foreign relations of Venezuela, Iran￢ﾀﾓVenezuela relations
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