Update below. Finally, Tehran has positively responded to a request, or invitation, from Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, to revive talks in Vienna on the nuclear issue. The meeting is supposed to be held on November 15-17. Another swap proposal is expected. As a matter of fact, the American President Barack Obama wasn’t [...]
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Resuming the Talks
Posted in IAEA, Iran, NPT, P5+1, tagged Bushehr nuclear plant, Catherine Ashton, Eric A. Brill, Flynt Leverett, hypocrisy, ISIS, LEU, medical isotopes, Safeguards Agreement IAEA-Iran, Tehran Research Reactor, UN Charta, Vienna Talks on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hiking In the Danger Zone
Posted in Iran, Iraq, USA, tagged As Sulaymaniyah, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, Joshua Fattal, Julian Assange, Kurdish-Iraq, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, WikiLeaks on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update below. It is hoped that the enormous amount of data on the Iraq war 2003-2010 which have been made public by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks this week will keep analysts busy for the coming weeks. Amazingly, the leaked 391,832 military documents, the so called Iraq War Logs, contain a note about the three American hikers, Shane [...]
Eric A. Brill’s Arguments
Posted in Academics, Iran, tagged Benford's Law, election fraud, Eric A. Brill, Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett, Iran's presidential election 2009, peer review, scientific method on October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I have foretold the final result of last year’s presidential election in Iran already early in May 2009. I wrote at that time, “Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei can’t help but only endorse ‘his’ president Ahmadinejad. And when he is going to do that, he will be elected. Such are things in dictatorships.” I have also pointed [...]
Freedom of Press
Posted in Iran, tagged crack down, dictatorship, freedom of press, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, opinion polls, presidential election, Tehran University, WorlPublicOpinion on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update below. According to Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders), a France-based non-governmental organization, latest Press Freedom Index (covering the period between 1 September 2009 and 1 September 2010), Iran ranks 175, with 178 countries assessed. Only Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea rank lower. The brutal crackdown of press, media in general, the internet, even mobile [...]
They Should Be Tried
Posted in Iran, Iraq, USA, tagged As Sulaymaniyah, Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer on October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
That U.S. citizens Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are being tried in Tehran for illegally trespassing Iran is a logical decision of Iran’s judiciary. That they had been ‘hiking’ in Kurdish Iraq in July 2009, allegedly unintentionally crossing the border, is not very credible, although possible. It is not acceptable, though, that they had to spend in [...]
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