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Syria: Testing Time

Syria remains relatively calm as efforts to destabilise its government through orchestrated attacks by rebels fail.  Life in the Syrian capital, Damascus, seems to be

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Iran’s Lawyers Who Need Lawyers

Iranian human-rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was arrested in Tehran earlier this month—re-arrested, actually. This was Mr. Soltani’s third detention since 2005. Sometimes Tehran files charges

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How Nixon Courted The Shah

Anyone who’s ever driven down an American highway, idled in America’s city streets surrounded by gas-guzzling SUVs, or shivered in the Arctic-cold air conditioning of

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Bibi on Iranians

Yesterday, at the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, the Prime Minister of Israel, the lone Middle Eastern democracy, strategic and historic ally of

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شغالی که امام را خورد!

عنوان خبر را چند بار با حیرت خواندم. سرم را که بالا کردم، آقایی که چند متر آنطرف تر روی مبل نشسته بود، پرسید؛ حالتان

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کعبۀ گروهبان گارسیا

پیشتر در دو نوبت در مورد “همایش بیداری اسلامی ” چند سطری تقدیم گردیده بود، اینجا و اینجا. حیف است که ترهات رییس ستاد کل

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NATO’s Democracy

Cartoon   NATO’s Democracy   by Kritikal Point  Kritikal Point, a collective of artists, may be contacted at . 

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What is the US up to in Iraq?

  Washington’s game doesn’t fare so well when compared with those of Tehran and Ankara, even under the light of a lethal Shia-Sunni divide across

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The Iranian art of lying

A friend was enthusiastically recounting his run-in with a police officer in a Los Angles freeway. It turns out that my friend was doing 90

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