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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 ...
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 ...
Iran in focus
17 Dec '08 | Energy / Features
... double the consumption, so we will be able to export the product." Improved relations with the West and in particular the US - something that has fresh hope thanks to the election of Barack Obama - would go a long way to ensure that capacity increases are met. "We understand that we are working in ...
Iran in focus
26 Jun '08 | Energy / Features
... up salaries. Much hope for the nation's energy industry, according to Ciszuk, will be pinned on the presidential elections of both the US and Iran. "I think, from an IOC point of view, everyone is waiting for two things to happen right now. They are first waiting to see what US policies will be ...
Fuelling concerns
16 Jul '09 | Energy / Features
... . More acutely, it showed that the political upheaval had spread into Iran’s energy industry.The post-election violence has come at a bad time ... of that negotiation a lot of the European companies are under pressure to withdraw from Iran,” says Mohammed Shakeel, of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU ...
Persian potential
12 Apr '09 | Technology / Features
... looking for a stable environment to do business in," he adds. Franca says that the next six months in particular could be difficult for business in Iran. "If you look at the overall economy there is a general perception that the next six months are going to be rough: elections are coming and the ...
You can’t please all the people
2 Feb '09 | Politics & Economics / Features
... that could not make that lunch.Ronald Reagan first came to office in 1980, with the US in a deep recession. Four years later, the recovery was so strong that he won re-election with the largest number of Electoral College votes in US history.They may come from opposite sides of the political fence, ...
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 ...
Dividing up the prize - Iraqi oil
8 Jan '06 | Energy / Features
... Washington’s powerful Israeli lobby. The combination of a possible Israel-Iran showdown, and the election of a Shia-dominated and perhaps pro-Iranian parliament in Baghdad, complicates calculating the Iraq investment risk. Iran’s president wants to “wipe Israel off the map” and go nuclear. Israeli ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Which way is ‘Big Oil’ headed?
1 May '07 | Energy / Features
Here is an apparent contradiction. After a couple of years of high oil prices, the world's leading private oil companies are raking in record profits. In 2006 the five top US and Western European companies reported an all-time record of US $120 billion in profits, equivalent in size to Ireland's ...
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, ...
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