Iran Round-Up, Oct 24: Parliament Passes Revised Budget With an “Empty Treasury”
Iran’s Parliament passed a revised version of the 2013/14 budget on Wednesday, after the...
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Syria Analysis: Fight Within Obama Administration — Officials Crticize Him as “Uncertain”
More than six weeks after Barack Obama pulled back from military intervention in Syria, officials...
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Iran Analysis: Trouble Ahead? Tehran Lashes Out at US Nuclear Negotiator Sherman
Have last week’s promising nuclear talks in Geneva between Iran and the 5+1 Powers already...
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Iran Round-Up, Oct 23: Ongoing House Arrest “Seriously Damaging” Opposition Leader Karroubi
LATEST: Before and After — The State of Activist Arash Sadeghi After 21 Months in Prison...
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Syria Political Round-Up, Oct 23: Opposition Repeats “Assad Must Step Down”
The head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba (pictured), has repeated that the...
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Iran Flashback: The Speech That Put Majid Tavakoli in Prison for 4 Years
On Monday, leading student activist Majid Tavakoli was released on $200,000 bail after almost four...
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