Frontline: Showdown With Iran “In this report, that focuses on the tumultuous U.S.-Iran relations since 9/11, FRONTLINE examines how U.S. efforts to install democracy in Iraq have served to strengthen Iran’s position as an emerging power in the Middle East.”
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Shifting Targets
October 1st, 2007
Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker: Shifting Targets “The shift in targeting reflects three developments. First, the President and his senior advisers have concluded that their campaign to convince the American public that Iran poses an imminent nuclear threat has failed (unlike a similar campaign before the Iraq war), and that as a result there [...]
Tags: iran · iraq · seymour hersh · usa
Iran keeps Picassos in basement
September 24th, 2007
For a 2005 exhibition, authorities issued an order to remove the central panel of Francis Bacon’s triptych “Two Figures Lying on a Bed With Attendant” because of its purported homosexual overtones. “Ruled by one of the most vehemently anti-Western governments in the world, Iran is, by many assessments, home to the most extensive collection of [...]
Call that humiliation?
March 31st, 2007
Terry Jones: “No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch.”
Tags: humor · iran · iraq · terry jones · uk · usa · war on terror
The Redirection. A Strategic Shift
February 25th, 2007
&tSeymour Hersh;/a>: “In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open [...]
Tags: al qaeda · iran · iraq · middle east · seymour hersh · shiite · sunni · usa
links for 2006-04-02
April 2nd, 2006
Telegraph | News | Government in secret talks about strike against Iran “It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is “inevitable” if Teheran’s leaders fail to comply with United Nations demands to freeze their uranium enrichment programme.” (tags: uk us iran war un)
links for 2006-03-15
March 15th, 2006
Women Police in Iran – Google Video “… how islamic countries train their women police” In burka. (tags: video iran women) hinke | suds and soda | notes on art: Charlotte Schleiffert in Akinci “Intussen vond ik juist die meer-dan-menshoge tekeningen krachtig en prachtig als altijd – waar de doeken aan de oppervlakte blijven hebben [...]
Tags: charlotte schleiffert · china · iran · urban · video · women