APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from March 2008

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from March 2008

Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 27 - Ahmadi-Nejad In Iraq.
March 10, 2008... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad on March 2-3 became the first regional head of state to visit Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, underlining Tehran's close relations with its former enemy and staging a symbolic show of defiance of the...

Iranian Dialogue Team Turned Back.
March 10, 2008... Thus, a delegation of Iranian diplomats linked to the theocracy's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which arrived in the Iraqi capital two days after Ahmadi-Nejad left Baghdad was told to return to Tehran as there was to be no...

What Ahmadi-Nejad & His Critics Said.(Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
March 10, 2008... On March 3, Ahmadi-Nejad wrapped up his visit with a call on US-led foreign forces to withdraw from Iraq, saying: "People have not seen anything from the foreign presence in this region but more destruction and division. Without the presence of...

Tehran Says No To New Border Treaty.
March 10, 2008... Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad 'Ali Hosseini on March 2 said Tehran would not re-negotiate the 1975 Algiers border treaty with Iraq, after President Talabani caused a political stir in December by saying the pact was void. A row...

Sadr's Withdrawal & Inter-Shi'ite Wars Ahead.
March 10, 2008... Experts in Baghdad on March 8 told APS that Sadr's withdrawal from Iraqi politics was one of the signs of inter-Shi'ite wars looming ahead. Boston-based Professor Kan'an Makiye, a prominent Iraqi Shi'ite, on March 7 told the US...