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INDIA/IRAN: Course Correction
Analysis by Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI - Relations between India and Iran, which deteriorated over the past three years from traditional friendship and warmth into mutual suspicion and tension, have started looking up again.
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US/IRAN: Changing of the Guard Key to Talks
By Omid Memarian*
BERKLEY, California - A week after Senator Hillary Clinton's harsh remarks that if hardliners in Tehran were to launch an attack on Israel, it would result in the "total obliteration" of Iran, a Republican member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Peter Hoekstra, suggested on CNN that "engaging in a full-court diplomatic press with Iran is a good thing to begin the process" of reaching out to Tehran.
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POLITICS-US: Petraeus Promotion Frees Cheney to Threaten Iran
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to be the new head of the Central Command not only ensures that he will be available to defend the George W. Bush administration's policies toward Iran and Iraq at least through the end of Bush's term and possibly even beyond.
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MIDEAST: Israel Sees Iran Threat Recede
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - In the clearest indication yet that Israel now believes Iran's nuclear aspirations will be curbed, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that efforts being undertaken by the international community will ensure that Tehran does not acquire nuclear capability.
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POLITICS: Can the U.S. and Iran Share the Middle East?
Analysis by Trita Parsi*
WASHINGTON - By negotiating a Shiite truce, Tehran embarrassed Washington last week and arguably proved itself to be a more potent stabiliser of southern Iraq.
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POLITICS: Petraeus Hid Maliki Resistance to US Troops in Basra
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - In testimony before Congressional committees last week, Gen. David Petraeus portrayed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's late March offensive in Basra as a poorly planned effort that departed from what U.S. officials had expected.
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IRAN: Nuclear Crisis - No Progress at Shanghai
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Tehran’s defiant position on its nuclear programme has precluded any significant progress at talks among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany on how to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis.
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POLITICS: Attitudes Toward U.S. Worsen in Arab World
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Despite renewed U.S. efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement this year, popular views of the United States in the Arab world have actually worsened since 2006, according to a major new survey of public opinion in six Arab states.
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US/IRAN: Tough New Sanctions Could Backfire, Experts Warn
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - In the more than five years since the George W. Bush administration's misdirected adventurism in Iraq, the fundamental balance of power in the Middle East has shifted.
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POLITICS: Iran's Engineered Elections
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - The results of Iran's eighth parliamentary elections were never meant to be a cliffhanger -- the hard-line camp of fiery President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came out on top; moderate conservatives maintained their stake; reformists were demoralised.
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POLITICS: Iranian Public Sees Reduced U.S. Threat
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While still distrustful of U.S. intentions, the Iranian public believes that the threat posed by Washington has diminished over the past year and favours increased exchanges between the two countries, including direct talks on stabilising Iraq and other issues, according to a major new survey released here Monday by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO).
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US/IRAQ: Petraeus Testimony to Defend False "Proxy War" Line
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - A key objective of the Congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus this week will be to defend the George W. Bush administration's strategic political line that it is fighting an Iranian "proxy war" in Iraq.
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POLITICS-IRAN: Ahmadinejad Faces Stormy New Parliament
Analysis by Kimia Sanati
TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can expect considerable opposition in the newly elected parliament -- set to be installed on May 27 -- that has a considerable number of representatives from rival hardliners, conservatives and a stronger reformist minority.
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News in RSS The Parthian shot was a military tactic of the ancient Parthians, inhabitants of what is now Iran. The Parthian archers, on horseback, would feign retreat; then, riding at full gallop, they would turn their bodies back to fire on the pursuing enemy...

Is there anything Parthian about Iran's tactics today? What may worry the international community more than Iran's nuclear programme is its involvement in Iraq. When the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, as it eventually must, Iran will be the dominant power in the neighbourhood. But at home, there are more and more dissenting voices as the Iranian people react to the country's deteriorating economy, repressive laws, tough regime, and the growing sense of being in the U.S. firing line.

US, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz Incident
How the Pentagon Planted a False Hormuz Story
   Analysis by Gareth Porter
MIDEAST: Iran Looms Large in Bush's 11th Hour Tour
   By Ali Gharib
Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
   Analysis by Gareth Porter
Will Naval Incident Undermine Bush's Iran Message?
   Analysis by Trita Parsi
Democracy Now! Interviews IPS's Gareth Porter

INDIA/US: Nuke Deal Set to Time Out
INDIA/IRAN: Course Correction
US/IRAN: Changing of the Guard Key to Talks
CHILE: Environmentalists Withdraw Backing from Government
MIDEAST: Israel Sees Iran Threat Recede
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IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat
POLITICS-US: Lawmakers Seek Probe of "Media Generals"
US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains "Surge"
RIGHTS-US: Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
POLITICS-US: Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
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THE DEMOCRATIC ILLUSION
  By Johan Galtung
EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK - RECLAIMING SCHOOLS AS ZONES OF PEACE
  By Helene-Marie Gosselin
CURRENT CRISIS HIGHLIGHTS FLAWS IN MARKET ECONOMICS, AND GDP
  By Hazel Henderson
WHAT'S BEHIND SOARING COMMODITY PRICES
  By Jose Graziano da Silva
BHUTANESE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR NEW PARLIAMENT
  By Francoise Pommaret
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