Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Omid Memarian SAN FRANCISCO, U.S., Feb 22, 2011 (IPS) – On Monday night, Iranian security agents raided the home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, separating him from his wife, searching his house and arresting his son, Ali Karroubi, according to the local media outlet Saham News. Karroubi’s [...]
How to ‘Iran-ise Egypt . . . and Others’
February 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Fareed Mahdy* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint ISTANBUL (IDN) – The recipe for pushing Egyptians and Arabs toward extremism is simple and has been tasted for decades. Its ingredients are easy to prepare and digest; they are already pre-cooked and the kitchens of both Western mainstream media and foreign ministries [...]
Iran’s resilient rebellion
February 19, 2011 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Read the original article on opendemocracy.net Nasrin Alavi, 18 February 2011 Tehran’s ruling elite proclaims Iran’s revolutionary experience as the inspiration for the Arab insurrections, yet seeks to crush demonstrators at home. Iran’s citizens can see through the lies, says Nasrin Alavi. The Iranian ruling elite is pushing [...]
Iran- lacking international scrutiny?
February 19, 2011 By
By, David Levine, human rights activist concerned with issues relating to Iran. The United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council’s (HRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) review of the world’s most severe abuses has once again failed to take any type of action or effort to monitor the human rights crisis in Iran. Accompanied by 30 years [...]
Behind the Spin, Egypt Gives Tehran Political Heartburn
February 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Barbara Slavin WASHINGTON, Feb 9, 2011 (IPS) – Judging from official propaganda in both Iran and much of the Arab world, the uprisings that toppled Tunisia’s dictatorship and threatens Egypt’s authoritarian regime is the direct descendent of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. For the Iranians, that analysis [...]
Iran Laptop Papers Showed the Wrong Missile Warhead
November 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Nov 19, 2010 (IPS) – The most important intelligence documents used to argue that Iran had a covert nuclear weapons research and development programme in 2003 – a set of technical drawings of efforts to fit what appears to be a nuclear payload into [...]
US-IRAN: Netanyahu Pounds War Drums
November 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Nov 8, 2010 (IPS) – Less than a week after Republicans made major gains in the U.S. midterm elections, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called on President Barack Obama to "create a credible threat of military action" against Iran. Initial official reaction was [...]
Obama Imposes New Iran Sanctions as War Chorus Rises
September 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – Amid new calls for Washington to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if its diplomatic efforts at curbing Tehran’s uranium-enrichment programme fail, the United States Wednesday imposed unilateral sanctions against eight senior Iranian officials whom it accused of committing "sustained and [...]
Iran’s "Blogfather" Gets 20-Year Prison Sentence
September 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Omid Memarian SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sep 28, 2010 (IPS) – A week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told heads of state gathered for the U.N. General Assembly in New York that his government does not jail its citizens for expressing their opinions, Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced Hossein [...]
IRAN: Ahmadinejad Aims to Provoke Constitutional Overhaul
September 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Farideh Farhi* HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Sep 14, 2010 (IPS) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s confrontational approach towards the Iranian parliament could turn into a wider systemic crisis and is provoking appeals for a much more resolute intervention by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But Khamenei’s attempts to [...]
