Tag: Iran

As I wrote yesterday, Obama’s Arab Spring is the result of firm ties between the White House and the Muslim Brotherhood–ties which exist despite the stark differences between Islamists and the West.  And the Muslim Brotherhood movement to which Obama

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi declared President of Egypt Is Egypt following the path of Iran? Turkey invokes Nato charter over Syria’s downing of Turkish jet Turkey says that Syria ‘should pay’ for its

Both Iran and the White House hailed the victory of Egypt’s president-elect Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood this weekend. For it’s part, the White House believes it represents a “milestone in (Egypt’s) transition to democracy,” while Iran views it as a “revolutionary

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Greece seeks two-year delay on new austerity measures Egypt may announce Muslim Brotherhood candidate’s victory on Sunday Turkey says ‘We are 100% right’ in blaming Syria for shooting down plane Syria’s pilots may be

Next week, Russian President Vladimir Putin will do something President Obama has not: namely, visit the country of Israel. President Putin will be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Shimon Perez and other officials. Talks are likely to focus on

A Syrian air force colonel won political asylum after landing his MiG fighter in Jordan, as a watchdog reported the deadliest day of fighting in Syria since the battered April ceasefire. The pilot, who reportedly flew his jet under the

Cuba on Tuesday accused Google of “outrageous censorship” after the US Internet giant blocked access to a web traffic analysis tool to comply with US sanctions against Havana. Google Analytics, a free tool allowing website operators to see when people

A newly formed al-Qaeda group known as the Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack across the Israeli-Egyptian border on the Sinai Peninsula. The claim, made by video posted on an al-Qaeda website, confirms Israel’s assertion

An Iraqi Kurdish editor of a magazine that advocates relations between the Kurdistan region and Israel has been missing for more than 10 days, a journalist from the publication said on Wednesday. Mawlud Afand, the editor-in-chief of the Israel-Kurd Institute’s

Today, the Obama administration leaker, who has been distributing information about American and Israeli security for weeks, struck again. This time, the leaker went to the Washington Post, prompting the Post to run a piece crediting Israel and the United

According to Germany’s newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitun, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will step down when his second term ends and will not pull a Vladimir Putin, returning to power later. When asked why he was leaving, Ahmadinejad was quoted as

(AP)By GEORGE JAHN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVMOSCOWIran became more adamant Monday that the world must ease the sanctions choking off its oil sales before it will curb activities that could be used to make nuclear arms, diplomats said. But with six

(AP) One Egyptian’s surrender: The revolution failedBy SARAH EL DEEBAssociated PressCAIRO Mahmoud Abou Adhma’s despair over Egypt’s course the past 16 months has turned him from an avid revolutionary who camped out in Tahrir Square for most of the 18

By HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROIran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in countries whose autocratic leaders long shunned Tehran’s ruling clerics. But it is finding

By GEORGE JAHNAssociated PressVIENNAIran’s oil minister on Thursday shrugged off the tightening international squeeze on his country’s oil exports, declaring that Tehran was not feeling the pinch and warning that an energy-hungry world could not do without Iranian oil and

According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russia is supplying attack helicopters to the Syrian regime in its war with Syrian rebels. Clinton made the charges Tuesday along with a warning that Russia’s new military aid could escalate the war “quite dramatically.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov flew into Iran on Wednesday for a brief visit to discuss upcoming international talks over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme. The trip preceded a new round of negotiations between Iran and the major powers that is

The question about giving armed support to the Syrian people has now come front and center.  As is usually the case, if America doesn’t lead, nobody will.  It has become clear that the Obama Administration, has no stomach to do

Since the day Egyptians began gathering in Tahrir Square, pundits have declared that an Arab Spring has given the region a new hope for self-determination, democracy and individual rights. This so called “Spring” has yielded little fruit but many weed

The United States said it would exempt seven emerging economies including India from tough new sanctions after they cut back on oil from Iran, but the punishment still loomed for China. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton added India, Malaysia, South

Israeli officials who were placed at risk by the Obama administration’s leaks about the Stuxnet virus are disputing American claims that the cyber-weapon was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. Rather, they say, Israeli intelligence first started developing cyberspace