Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Saturday, May 05, 2018

OBITUARY: Iranian revolutionary leaves a complicated legacy

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The guy was the wiliest of wily politicians who co-authored the constitution that created the revolutionary government. Former Iran...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

OPINION: Bishop's mission to Iran raises more questions than it answers

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What a crazy few weeks leading up to Anzac Day period it's been. We've had Reclaim Australia holding rallies in most major ci...
Friday, May 28, 2010

OPINION: Rising trend of fearmongering on refugees and passports ...

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Coalition rhetoric now appears to slipping back to the worst practices of the Howard era, IRFAN YUSUF writes ... Tony Abbott wasn’t exactly ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

COMMENT: The columnist who wants to bomb Iranians accuses his opponents of not doing enough for them ...

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Back in January 2007, Greg Sheridan praised former US President George W Bush for defying conventional wisdom and popular sentiment in his...
Monday, July 06, 2009

BOOKS: Robert Baer on the Iranian superpower ...

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I’ve just finished reading a ripper-of-a-book by former CIA operative Robert Baer about Iran. The book is entitled The Devil We Know: Dealin...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

REVIEW: Ambitious cultural journey loses its way ...

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A Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands By Aatish Taseer Text Publishing, 323pp, $34.95 WE all inhabit the same pla...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

IRAN: Maz Jobrani's serious reflections on Iran ...

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Maz Jobrani is an American comedian of Iranian extraction who has toured with the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. He has also visited Australia ....
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

COMMENT: The Oz gives space to nonsensical analysis ...

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Some years ago, I had an interesting exchange in Crikey with a former opinion editor of The Australian concerning what I saw as his refus...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

IRAN: Post-election situation ...

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If I was able to read and understand Farsi, I'd be able to provide a more comprehensive analysis. Instead, like most readers, I'll h...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

OPINION: Repressive rule losing lustre in Iran?

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It's not often the leader of the free world publicly acknowledges his country sabotaged the democracy of another country. Yet this is ...

CRIKEY: Iranian elections: of mullahs, women and Jews

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If you believe everything you read in the op-ed pages of The Australian or watch on Fox News, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Iran is a...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

VIDEO/POLITICS: Miscellaneous reports on the Iranian Presidential Election ...

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Iranian reformists try new media to win votes Political reformists in Iran have long accused Irib, the state-run broadcaster, of biased repo...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

OPINION/CRIKEY: Khatami: a case for dialogue ...

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Last night, I was among the crowd who filled a large lecture theatre at the Australian National University in Canberra to hear a presentatio...
Friday, February 27, 2009

UPDATE: Elsewhere on the planet ...

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The far-Right Little Green Footballs blog has decided that far-Right blogger Robert Spencer is a wacko. Yep, like they've discovered Am...
Monday, October 31, 2005

COMMENT: Iran's Infantile Attitude to Israel

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Recent comments made by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran have drawn international condemnation. President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s...