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Understanding Bibi's Urgency: Israel is Only Target of Iran's Need for Islamic Apocalypse
Tehrān :: Iran | 8 months ago
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In fact, the need for an apocalyptic war against the Israeli state is the centerpiece of their religion and the key to unlocking paradise, in their estimation. The issue of the Shia's messiah brings to light perhaps the most important aspect of the
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India walking tightrope in intra-Islam cold war in West Asia
Tehrān :: Iran | 9 months ago
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India is trying hard not to take sides in what seems to be heading towards an intra-Islam cold war in West Asia. As Manmohan Singh heads to Iran later this month to participate in the NAM summit he is likely to be pressed to take the Tehran line on
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Bahrain to quit Arabsat to protest Iranian channels
Manama :: Bahrain | 12 months ago
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Bahrain will stop broadcasting its channels on satellite operator Arabsat to protest an Iran-led "hostile" media campaign, the state news agency BNA reported on Saturday. "The Information Affairs Authority [IAA] decided to stop broadcasting Bahrain
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Iran to sue Google over dropping Persian Gulf name
Tehrān :: Iran | 1 year ago
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Iran (AP) — Iran says it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. The threat comes after the famous search engine left the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula nameless on its
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Emboldened upper class rebels against Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi :: United Arab Emirates | 1 year ago
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The Persian Gulf is the part of the Middle East the Arab Spring forgot. In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, where revolution upended decades-old regimes, democracy is a work in progress...Rulers here have become increasingly paranoid and autocratic, gripped
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Focus: A new Cold War
Moscow :: Russia | 1 year ago
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A new Cold War As the international system that has prevailed over the past two decades draws to a close, what does the emergent global order hold for the Middle East, asks Galal Nassar powerful presence in the international arena. At the same time,
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Iranian forces kill four rebels in southeast, report says
Tehrān :: Iran | 1 year ago
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Jundallah (Army of God), whose leader Abdolmalek Rigi was hanged in June 2010, has waged a deadly insurgency in southeastern Iran for almost a decade. It has claimed a number of attacks against civilians and officials in the region. Overwhelmingly
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Patrick Cockburn: Syria in first stage of sectarian civil war.
In an article in the Independent Cockburn
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Turns out Hamas isn’t really an Iran proxy
Damascus :: Syria | over 1 year ago
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Turns out Hamas isn't really an Iran proxy by News Sources on February 1, 2012 Paul Scham writes : One of the most enduring epithets for Hamas, right up there with terrorist, is proxy...The idea that the relationship between Sunni Hamas, the Gaza
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Must Read: Egypt’s power struggle, China’s Mideast policy and Al Qaeda’s secret base
Beijing :: China | over 1 year ago
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An Egyptian soldier waves the national flag from atop an army vehicle during a February 2011 protest in Tahrir Square, Cairo. (Photo: Reuters) In the wake of dramatic changes in Egypt, writes Omar Ashour in Project Syndicate , the new parliament and
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