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Turnout holds the key in finely-poised Iran vote The matter of voter turnout will play a large factor in determining who the next Iranian president will be. If a majority of voters boycott the elections, the hardliners will benefit the most, if how... Read More...

Iran's passive participation The failures of past Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, have left the people very apathetic to voting in the upcoming Iranian election. This signals that as long as they are left alone, Iran will e... Read More...

Iran election not only about who wins The current election in Iran, regardless of its outcome, will force the ruling conservatives to make more changes and concessions. Already the disenchantment amongst the younger voters has forced the... Read More...

Disillusioned Iran Although Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will most likely win the Iranian presidency, even if it takes multiple votes, the power of the ruling conservatives is waning. Events ranging from Iranian unemployme... Read More...

As Iranians head to polls, a lesson emerges for U.S. Despite previous US failures to shape Iran in a way deemed fit by the West, the Islamic Republic is slowly becoming more and more democratic. Although the Guardian Council is still denying true freed... Read More...

Iran's sham election Iran’s elections are nothing more than a sham. Although the people hate the theocracy, the Guardian Council retains complete power, and who ever becomes president will do their bidding. (Washington ... Read More...

Iran's ballot box Whatever the results of the election, Iran is going to continue being a “split nation” with half its population under 24 and yearning for democratic reforms. (San Francisco Chronicle, 15/06/05) Read More...

Women hold the key Women are the key to this upcoming Iranian election. Since the Revolution of ’79, Iran’s women have becoming increasingly better educated and have gained the right to vote. They will be a very power... Read More...

Hold the boos for Khatami Even though outgoing Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has been routinely criticized as a failure in the United States, if one simply looks at some of his accomplishments one will see his reign wasn’... Read More...

Iran’s giant question: To vote or not to vote The question regarding the Iranian elections is not “who will win?,” but rather who will vote? Many reformists in Iran see the election as fraud and therefore are urging the populace to boycott votes... Read More...

Iran's sham election The Iranian elections are a complete sham. All the candidates are basically the same, and the ruling Guardian Council has basically ensured who will win. (Jerusalem Post, Free Registration Req. 15/0... Read More...

Iran Said To Admit Tests On Path To Atom Arms An IAEA official stated that Iran has admitted to continuing a plutonium development program, as long as five years after it claimed to have stopped such programs, after being confronted with laborato... Read More...

Beyond ayatollahs The upcoming elections in Iran could lead to a critical change in current Iranian-American relations. While Iranian democracy is far from a perfect western liberal democracy, these elections will det... Read More...

A Not So Totalitarian Iran Contrary to Condoleezza Rice, Iran is not a totalitarian state. Why there is still along ways to go before Iran establishes a true democracy, the theocracy is slowly making the transition. By Chris... Read More...

In Iran: Hope battles apathy Politics of violence can mean politics as usual in Iran. But the cuts and black eye sustained by reform strategist Behzad Nabavi - attacked by 30 hard-line militants last Thursday in the holy city of ... Read More...

The Right Path to Arab Democracy Albright and Weber recommend a democratic evolution, not a revolution, in the Middle East. Middle Eastern leaders should outline clear paths to reform, with benchmarks along the way. By Madeleine Albr... Read More...

Fighting Blind in Iraq The author writes the Iraqi insurgency and the American-led counterinsurgency is essentially an intelligence war, with each side needing in-depth information on the other to stage successful attacks. ... Read More...

U.S. Says It Intercepted Nuclear Material for North Korea, Iran The United States and its allies have intercepted 11 shipments of nuclear materials destined to North Korea and Iran. The US is claiming that their anti-nuclear weapons trafficking program is continu... Read More...

RUSSIA WRITES OFF ABOUT 75% OF SYRIA'S DEBT Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is to sign in Damascus an Agreement on Settlement of Syria's Debt to Russia. (Novosti, 5/28/2005) RIA Novosti MOSCOW (May 28) Read More...

Interview With Iranian Presidential Candidate Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former Iranian president and presumed front runner in the June 17 presidential race, was interviewed on Monday by Neil MacFarquhar. Mr. Rafsanjani spoke for an hour ... Read More...

Bombs Won't 'Solve' Iran When contemplating how to respond to Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. should remember what happened when Israel attacked Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981. By Joseph Cirincione. (Washington Post, 5/11/2... Read More...

A New American Century? The crises of imperial visions for America, past and present. By Zia Mian (FPIF Commentary, May 4, 2005) Read More...

Reaping What It Sowed Friedman writes that the spate of suicide attacks in Iraq and across the Arab world is the outgrowth of the anti-Israel suicide bomb movement, now turning against Arab masters. By Thomas L. Friedman. ... Read More...

I may not be sure about God or the Devil, but I still believe in the United Nations The author of the ground-breaking book on Lebanon "Pity the Nation", also award-winning Middle East correspondent for the UK's The Independent, makes the case for the UN by drawing upon recent Iraqi &... Read More...

Beyond the Bomb, all Iran Wants is a Little Bit of Respect The chair of the political science department at California State University, Northridge makes the case that Iran's real ambition is for political influence, not nuclear weaponry. By Mehran Kamrava. ... Read More...

Rooting for the Good Guys Friedman writes that political turmoil in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Iraq, and Lebanon all pose the question of whether democracy can take root and thrive in the Middle East. By Thomas L. F... Read More...

Lebanon heads financial watchdog group Arab banks get set to toughen up on money laundering (Daily Star, April 19 2005) Read More...

What the West Owes the Iranian People Think back seven years to 1998, when the main hope for political reform in the broader Middle East was in Iran. A reform-minded cleric had swept aside the establishment's candidate in presidential ele... Read More...

Power Sharing Vital to Unite Iraq New hope has sprung in Iraq for the end of the disorder that has prevailed since Saddam Hussein's fall, writes the author. By Wu Yixue. (China Daily, 4/15/2005) Read More...

What the West Owes the Iranian People The potential for democracy in the Middle East has taken a strange course. Iran, which once seemed to be the model for Islamic democracy, has failed in its reform attempts and has slipped back into it... Read More...

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