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The Iraq Effect.
Like a meteor crashing into a lake, the American invasion of Iraq made a lot of waves last year. Every one of the leaky, rotting regimes afloat in the Middle East had to worry it might be swamped by the cataclysm. Which would be next? Syria? Iran? Perhaps even Saudi Arabia? The old elites shuddered to think. But in geopolitics, as in physics, for every action there's an opposite reaction-- and 10 months after the first U.S. bombs were dropped on Baghdad, what we're seeing in the Middle East is nothing like the spreading circles of American influence, reform and democratization hoped for by some of the Bush administration's idealists.
There's change, to be sure, ...
- Iran supreme leader says US promoting terrorism.
- Newspaper article from: Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia) May 18, 2009 700+ words
Summary: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...Khamenei's Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...stability in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. Khamenei...western region close to Iraq where security forces...
- The Rise and Fall of Saddam: Getting into the Supreme Leader's mind.
- Magazine article from: National Review Pryce-Jones, David March 24, 2003 700+ words
...All it cost him, as Supreme Leader and Father of Iraq, was the lives of...town in the provincial Iraq of 60 years ago. Dr...wrong), and finally Supreme Leader of his country. Post...responsibility for Iraq in the Clinton administration...
- IRAN: SUPREME LEADER RULES OUT RESTORING IRAN-U.S. RELATIONS.(Supreme Leader...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database May 22, 2003 700+ words
Supreme Leader Khamenei, addressing students at Shahid...in Geneva to discuss Afghanistan and Iraq. Both Powell and Rice said the restoration...around issues such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Iraq-based Iranian opposition group Mujahedin...
- How Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, sees the world.(WORLD)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Murphy, Dan June 23, 2009 700+ words
...then therea*os the supreme leader, who, in practice...hierarchy in Iran.] The supreme leader today is Ayatollah Sayed...on the power of the supreme leader, called for this in...talks about the Iran-Iraq war as a war of the...
- Shun pro-west candidates: Iran supreme leader.
- Newspaper article from: Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia) May 17, 2009 700+ words
Summary: Iran's Supreme leader urged his people on Monday not to...in the run-up to next Iran's Supreme leader urged his people on Monday not to...minister during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, and those of reformist Karroubi...
- Iran's defense dignified -- supreme leader.
- News wire article from: UPI Emerging Threats October 8, 2009 700+ words
...but an example of progress and dignity, the supreme leader of Iran said. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei spoke before graduating military...military commemoration of the start of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, and renewed concerns over Iran...
- A reformist in conservative clothing? If hard-liners are routed in today's...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Peterson, Scott February 18, 2000 700+ words
...different message. "The supreme leader says: 'For the time...Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader for a decade who created...early days of the Iran-Iraq war resulted in an assassination...Interviewed in 1981 on the Iraq front line, wearing...
- IRAN: KHAMENEI NIXES U.S. TALKS AGAIN.(Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database May 8, 2002 700+ words
In a fiery 1 May speech, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei again ruled...the cost of its independence. The Supreme Leader's words stand in sharp contrast...in the context of Afghanistan, Iraq, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Tajikistan...