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Juan Cole’s blog has a guest writer today, Jim Crane, author of City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism. A paragraph from the guest blog notes, “In short, Dubai is an open city, a Hong Kong-style trading entrepôt with all the spies, smugglers and schemers inherent in that role. It just happens to [...]
Iran’s Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie told Tokyo Koyodu News Agency that President Ahmadinejad would welcome talks with President-elect Barack Obama, as long as the talks are held openly and their contents made fully available to the press. Ahmadinejad has stated that he believes face-to-face diplomacy to be the most successful means to achieving a [...]
The British government today accused Iran of failing to cooperate with a United Nations watchdog. This failure has contributed to the UK becoming increasingly concerned with Iran’s nuclear program and whether or not they are creating nuclear weapons. A report by the UN nuclear watchdog states that Iran plans to start installing an extra 3,000 [...]
Iran staged joint military operations between the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Monday in preparation for a possible Israeli attack. Israel and the United States have both threatened attacks on the nation’s nuclear facilities if Iran’s nuclear energy program is not halted. Iran tested its [...]
Drawing on its policy to deter future uranium enrichment in Iran, the U.S. government has placed further sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) under the pretext that it has previously been involved in illicit commerce. The Washington Post touched on the main strategies of the world’s major powers in dealing with [...]
Much talk about Iran in the West revolves around their potential development of nuclear weapons. The article “Iran Offers to Launch Satellites for Muslim Countries,” published by the New York Times, also raises this issue. While the United States seems to distrust Iran’s claim that their nuclear program is for “purely peaceful purposes,” some may [...]
