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Who killed Neda? Not us, Iran claims
(National Post Comment) … according to Iran’s Press […]

BBC Iran country profile ; Iran on Wednesday-Night.com ; Search NYT for Iran ; Slate: Why the Islamic republic has such a youthful population ; Juan Cole’s Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion ; Stratfor Iran Situation Reports and Analyses ; More on Iran
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the […]

(BBC) Afghanistan country profile ; Pakistan post 2008 elections - Updates
U.S. deploys 4,000 Marines in major Afghan offensive
With the backing of helicopter gunships, nearly 4,000 U.S. Marines and 650 Afghan soldiers launched a ground campaign in the volatile Helmand River valley, where poppy crops provide the Taliban with a significant source […]

See also Iraq 5 years later ; U.S. Foreign Policy ; Iraq news on Wednesday-Night.com
Bidding war for Iraq’s huge oil contracts sputters into life
(The Independent) Iraq is locked in a struggle with the world’s largest oil companies over contracts that would see “Big Oil” return to the Iraqi oilfields for the first time in almost […]

(Reuters/Planet Ark) Member states of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) voted to locate their headquarters in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said on Monday. … IRENA’s innovation and technology center would be located in Bonn and that an office for contacts to the U.N. would also be set up in […]

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers about the Presidential elections and the subsequent events
 
1) We, a group of Iranian bloggers, strongly condemn the violent and repressive confrontation of Iranian government against Iranian people’s legitimate and peaceful demonstrations and ask government officials to comply with Article 27 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution which […]

For a long time, we resolutely abstained from publishing a page dedicated to Israel because we find it impossible to formulate a definitive opinion on the rights and wrongs of the sixty-year-old question, let alone advocate with conviction a solution to the problem that is at the root of so much of what ails the […]

Canada-U.S. post 2008 elections ; Israel
I believe that American leadership has been wanting but is still wanted. We must use what has been called ‘smart power,’ the full range of tools at our disposal — diplomatic, economic, military, political, legal and cultural, picking the right tool or combination of tools for each situation. …  Foreign […]

Update on Hungary
Although the member nations of the European Union have benefited enormously from the elimination of physical and trade barriers and the establishment of a strong common currency, the rejection of a proposed constitution has led some local politicians to make extravagant promises that they are no more able to fulfil than were their […]

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