APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from July 2005

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from July 2005

IRAN - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 4A - Iran & The Main Regional Issues.
July 25, 2005... Despite the best efforts of the administration of US President George W. Bush to make Iran an international pariah, the Shiite theocracy keeps wracking up one diplomatic victory after another. On all regional issues affecting Iran, Tehran seems...

IRAN - The Domestic Issue.(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... The US hawks, who welcomed Ahmedi-Nejad's victory in the belief that an ostentatiously hardline president would put to rest the notion that there was a "moderate" faction the West could deal with, have still not given up hopes for achieving...

IRAN - The Issue Of US Military Presence Next Door.
July 25, 2005... While Washington's military campaign in Afghanistan and invasion of Iraq have been seen by some as designed in part to intimidate Iran, Tehran has actually emerged as a winner, according to regional observers. Anatol Lieven, an analyst at the...

IRAN - A Reformist's View On Threat To Democracy.(Said Hajjarian)
July 25, 2005... It is five years since Said Hajjarian, prominent among Iran's reformists, was shot in the head. Every day since then has been a long, hard struggle from coma and partial paralysis through physiotherapy to speech therapy and hours on a treadmill...

IRAN - The Fate Of Khomeinism.
July 25, 2005... The following is how an article by Amir Taheri, a prominent Iranian journalist opposed to the theocracy, on July 23 described one aspect of the situation in Iran: "Just over a month ago Sa'id Mortazavi, the Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor in...