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Would Obama end the U.S.-Iranian Cold War?
via TIME: Middle East Blog by (author unknown) on April 20, 2008
After a week in Tehran speaking with politicians and analysts across the political spectrum, I came away with conclusions on two important issues. Iranians are confident if not over-confident in their overall strategic position, and are not so worried about a military strike before the Bush administration leaves office nine months from now. And, as I have written in a time.com piece today,...
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Beirut Demo Turns Violent
via TIME: Middle East Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Soldiers separating Shia Muslim neighborhoods from Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in West Beirut where a trade union demonstration and strike over wages tuned into an opposition protestOn a Beirut scale of civil disturbances, today's demonstration by labor unions demaninding better wages was relatively mild. Still, the sound of rifle fire and rocket explosions ecohing through the streets of...
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