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Good Timing?

President Barack Obama’s video message to the Iranian people has surprised everybody in the West as well. It was launched on Nowruz, as New Year greetings. So far, reactions in Tehran were not really enthusiastic though, rather precautious instead. Was … Continue reading

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Credibility

President-elect Barack Obama has given his first press conference and confirmed that he had received congrats from the Iranian President (heavily criticized by the Majlis, by the way). In his further response to the specific question he re-iterated standard formulations … Continue reading

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From Aradan

    Kasra Naji. Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader. University of California Press, Berkeley 2008, 312 pages.  There is an urgent need for an unbiased and more detailed analysis of the origins of this son of a … Continue reading

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