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Iran and the Disappearing Deadline
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Jan. 5) – In the parlance of diplomacy, there are soft deadlines and there are hard deadlines. And then there is Iran. The Obama administration's autumn threats to impose new sanctions if Tehran didn't compromise on its nuclear program by year's end have all but disappeared now that 2010 is here. That underscores the strong impression that the United States and its allies lack the leverage to carry them out. But it may also signal new patience with a regime that is increasingly under fire at home. The administration, backed by Britain, France and Germany, has been trying to rally the ...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Torture Not My Department
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAhead of his appearance at the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with MSNBC's Ann Curry, who asked him about allegations that prisoners -- both men and women -- had been tortured and raped. He was expected to issue a standard denial. Instead, there was this bizarre exchange:Ahmadinejad: I'm not in a position to answer or to judge whatever you are claiming. But are you – does your heart really and sincerely go out to the people? Are you really – is that really the truth? Curry: I know people, Mr. President Ahmadinejad: I don't believe that.Curry: ...
Iran's First Female Cabinet Member a Setback for Women
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyFirst the good news: On Thursday, the BBC reports that Iran approved its first female cabinet member since the revolution 30 years ago, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi. The bad news: Dastjerdi is a long-time proponent of sex-segregating medical care, so that Iranian women can only be seen by female doctors -- a move that reduces women's access to medical care, particularly to specialists. In Iran's hotly contested elections this year, opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard (once a political adviser herself to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami) ...
Iran's Protests: Why 2009 Won't Be a Repeat of 1999
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyTen years ago Thursday, the world watched as students from Tehran University in Iran took to the streets in protest. It seemed to many as though history were repeating itself when protests -- which seemed to have been cooling in the face of a government crackdown -- began anew in Iran, both in commemoration of 1999 and in reaction to the recent election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. CNN estimates that Thursday's protest at Tehran University had 2,000-3,000 people when a clash with the state militia began. The protests in 1999 lasted a week. The dissidents were jailed and some were ...
Iran: A Government on the Verge?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAs the rest of the world has watched the turmoil in Iran unfold, one of the takeaways for many people has been the ideological splits between Iran's government and Iran's people. But, as the crackdown has accelerated, the future of the dissidents has been looking more and more uncertain. Now, a split between the government and the politically pivotal clerics may be the critical leverage that finally forces not only the overturning of the election results, but maybe of the ayatollah as well. The New York Times reports that Iran's politically influential group of clerics, the Association of ...
Ahmadinejad, Neda, and the Politics of Misdirection
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyMahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered a public investigation into the death of Neda Soltan -- but don't expect a turnaround from claims that the state militia had nothing to do with it. "Interference by enemies of Iran" was among the culprits that Ahmadinejad cited, as well as "propaganda by the foreign media," and -- according to Iran's ambassador to Mexico -- maybe the CIA. The timing of Ahmadinejad's sudden interest in Soltan's death is no coincidence, nor is it likely the result of the incumbent stumbling upon the video while browsing YouTube -- it comes just as officials finish their recount ...
Iran's Election - The World Reacts
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyYesterday, with our partner, the international news site GlobalPost, we brought you reports of the aftermath of the Iranian elections from the street level in Iran.Today, GlobalPost has reached out to their correspondents in a dozen locations around the world who have been decoding the official (and unofficial) reactions to this dramatic story – from the mosques of Jakarta, to the teeming Arab capital city of Cairo, to Baghdad, Moscow, Beijing and beyond. Here's a taste of what they're finding (Click on the countries below to read the full articles): ...
Zahra Rahnavard: Not Iran's Michelle Obama, But Its Hillary Clinton
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyZahra Rahnavard, wife of Iranian presidential reform candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, is by all accounts a stirring speaker, an energizing personal presence, a respected force in her professional field and someone who enjoys high approval ratings in Iran. For those reasons, many are comparing her to Michelle Obama. But they're looking at the wrong first lady. Zahra Rahnavard is really Iran's Hillary Clinton. ...
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