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Friends yet? No chance
30 Oct '09 | Politics & Economics / Features
... nuclear deal or a rapprochement with the United States. A defender of Iran’s nuclear programme, Khamenei has in the past dismissed Western charges ... in an upheaval that divided Iran’s religious and political elite stoked a crisis of legitimacy created by the storm over the recent election.In theory ...
Tweeting masses shine in new Hurricane Katrina
11 Oct '09 | Culture & Society / Comment
... on the region’s growth potential. First, don’t underestimate how Twitter Inc or Facebook can exert people power. Twitter, for example, played an unexpected role in protests after Iran’s recent election. China even blocked Twitter on June 4, the 20th anniversary of ...
Arab states gloat at Iran strife, but wary of its spread
26 Jun '09 | Politics & Economics / Features
... Washington so feared by Riyadh. "The status quo suits everyone to a degree," he said. Ahmadinejad's re-election, analysts said, would comfort many Israelis and some Arabs who have long sought international action against Iran and had been concerned by US President Barack Obama's offer of direct ...
Revealed: How Blair interfered in Iraqi election
13 Mar '05 | News
... we could to get more votes for Allawi. I don’t think anyone seriously thought we could actually get him elected, but he was looking at just getting a few hundred thousand votes before this election. So it was a case of re-branding him and getting the message out to the Iraqi people that this guy ...
Rise of the Shiites
3 Sep '06 | Features
... 20-25% turnout.
"The lesson is very simple: if you have no members in the council, you have no say in your own city, town or region, then an election is a good thing for you. The Shiites in the Arab world have the same problem as everywhere, the problem of being marginalized, they all are ...
The last stand
11 Dec '05 | Features
... that their representatives will have a realistic prospect of influencing the formal political process in a way they would favour”.
But whatever the turnout, the election of a national assembly is likely to have a significant impact on Iraqi politics in one form or another.
“The determination ...
UN re-hires Egyptian as nuclear chief
16 Jun '05 | News
... apparent disagreements in the past over Iraq and Iran.
ElBaradei urged Tehran to accelerate its co-operation with the agency, in comments made after his re-election.
“The Iran file will be closed when we close all the issues that are still open,” said ElBaradei. “We are inching forward, but ...
Bring it on
1 May '05 | Features
... opponents back home continue to snipe at him over the Iraq war, which has undoubtedly cost him dearly in votes, Arab leaders are likely to welcome the election of Blair for a third consecutive time.
Blair himself told Arabian Business: “Britain has been building a very strong relationship with ...
Opec will not cut oil production as prices soar
6 Mar '05 | News
THE ORGANISATION of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), supplier of more than a third of the world’s oil, will not consider cutting production at a meeting in Iran in a fortnight with prices higher than US$50 a barrel.
Oil closed at a four-month high of US$51.75 a barrel in New York last Monday ...
Sistani's Shia alliance on top
13 Feb '05 | News
... ’s landmark elections according to partial results released by the country’s election commission last week. However, there is still no clear indication on who will emerge as Iraq's next prime minister.
Provisional results released by Iraq’s election commission on February 7 showed Shia parties ...
A new future for Iraq?
30 Jan '05 | Features
... running non-stop election propaganda on its Al Furat satellite TV station. Many of its leaders spent decades of exile in Iran, ... Shias will have control of Baghdad and Kurds their autonomous region. Perhaps the biggest election losers will be those Iraqis whose genuine homegrown movements and moderate ...
Kuwait’s democracy troubles Gulf Arab rulers
2 Jul '09 | Politics & Economics / Features
... to cite Kuwait, unique in its wide, free vote for a parliament with teeth, as an argument for more dynastic and autocratic rule.The violence following Iran’s recent elections has also raised Gulf fears of instability, giving another reason for no change.Islamist and tribal deputies stand accused of ...
Rallying call
25 Jul '09 | Politics & Economics / Features
... holds $400bn in foreign reserves; most of it believed to be in dollar-denominated assets. Geithner also became the first senior US official since Obama's election to visit the UAE, where in Abu Dhabi he met foreign trade minister Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi and central bank governor Nasser Al Suwaidi, ...
The Reformer
19 Jul '09 | Politics & Economics / Interviews
... . In recent weeks, the Islamic state has also made headlines the world over in the wake of the disputed general election, and resultant street protests. "The West should not interfere in Iran's affairs, because you just give them an excuse to blame others for the problems," cautions Al Alawi. "On ...
Wild Wadah
5 Jul '09 | Media & Marketing / Interviews
... At the time of writing, Al Jazeera and other news channels and media outlets are facing tight restrictions on reporting from Iran in the wake of the country's disputed presidential election. Video footage of protestors on the streets of Tehran is reaching ...
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