Search Results for: Iran

The Point of No Return

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For The Obama Administration, The Prospect Of A Nuclearized Iran Is Dismal To Contemplate: It Would Create Major New National-Security Challenges And Crush The President’S Dream Of Ending Nuclear Proliferation.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 39 minutes (9,908 words)

After the Crackdown

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Talking to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — and the opposition — about Iran today.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 16, 2010
Length: 29 minutes (7,427 words)

Obama’s Bad Cops

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Clinton’s played the heavy with Iran, Russia, and even Israel—and her sometimes hawkish views are finding favor with the president.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Apr 23, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,091 words)

The Professor of War

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At 57, General David Petraeus has revolutionized the way America fights its wars, starting with the surge in Iraq and continuing into his current command, with responsibility for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Yemen.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: May 1, 2010
Length: 45 minutes (11,270 words)

Watching Shrek In Tehran

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The Seen And The Unseen In Iranian Cinema

Source: The Believer
Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,177 words)

118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes

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On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant paranoia underpins an ever more fractured regime.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Nov 21, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,021 words)

Persian Puzzlement

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Iran: What our spies don’t know

Author: Eli Lake
Source: New Republic
Published: Jul 15, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,142 words)

Scheme of Rivals

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Egypt versus Iran.

Published: Jul 1, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,437 words)

Dispatch from Tehran: Blood and defiance in Azadi Square

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On Monday, huge crowds braved violence to protest the Iranian election results.

Author: Anonymous
Source: Salon
Published: Jun 16, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,091 words)

The Hidden Censors of the Internet

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Journey with us to a state where an unaccountable panel of censors vets 95 per cent of citizens’ domestic internet connections. The content coming into each home is checked against a mysterious blacklist by a group overseen by nobody, which keeps secret the list of censored URLs not just from citizens, but from internet service providers themselves. And until recently, few in that country even knew the body existed. Are we in China? Iran? Saudi Arabia? No – the United Kingdom, in 2009.

Author: CJ Davies
Source: Wired
Published: May 20, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,012 words)