APS Diplomat News Service articles from April 2006

APS Diplomat News Service archives from April 2006

Iran Hopes To Control The Levant; Syrian Influences Over Lebanon Will Decline.
April 3, 2006... *** If Syria Is Letting Iran Know That The Future Of Hizbollah As An Armed Militia Force In Lebanon Will Be Decided By Damascus, Rather Than By Tehran, Then The US-Iranian Dialogue In Baghdad Over The Future Of Iraq Will Be A More Complex And...

Arab Democratisation Processes Are Stalling; The Priority Is To Avert Civil Wars.
April 17, 2006... *** Will The US Bomb So Many Nuclear Targets In Iran, As Seymour Hersh Says In The New Yorker? *** Will There Be A US-Iranian 'Dialogue Over Iraq', Instead? *** Will The US Do Both As The Same Time - With Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad...

Arab IPOs Raised Over 10% Of The World's $71 Bn; The Trend In Iran Is In Reverse.
April 24, 2006... *** Ahamdi-Nejad Seems To Want War, While The Theocrats Under Ayat. Khamenei Are Working On A Direct Deal With USA Which Would Give The West A Guarantee That Tehran's Nuke Plans Are Only To Produce Energy For Civilian Use, In Return For Aid To...

Arab Stock Markets Fall.
April 24, 2006... The Saudi stock market plunged another 8% on April 18, taking its fall since April 9 to 26%. Other Arab markets were hit, with the Dubai Exchange falling 3.1%, Qatar 2.1% and Egypt 2%. The Tadawul All Share index in Saudi Arabia was trading at...

The Fate Of Arab Reforms.
April 24, 2006... "Only in stifling reform do Arab regimes display initiative". This was the headline of a commentary published on April 14 written by Bahey Eldin Hassan, director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. Hassan wrote: "If some of the...

Iran In Cold War Environment.
April 24, 2006... A defining feature of the Cold War was the proxy battles and regional tension fostered by a bipolar world order which demanded of nations that they take sides. Both the US and the Soviet Union, in dividing up the world into spheres of...