Tag: iran
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November 12, 2006 10:30 AM EST --
We left Yazd early in the morning for our date with the Dasht-i-Kavir. We made good time; stopping only once for a picnic in the middle of some salt flats 300 kilometers outside Yazd. Bread, feta cheese, . . . more
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December 17, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
From the J-Post, on what I consider to be good news:
Rafsanjani, one of Ahmadinejad's main opponents, gained almost two times more votes than the presidential candidate Mohamad-Taqi Mesbah- Yazdi, . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . . more
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August 30, 2006 08:13 PM EDT --
Confused about Iran? Read these two (here and here) excellent (but short) posts by Matthew Yglesias. I've yet to see anything remotely resembling such sanity from anyone in the punditocracy. And thanks . . . more
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April 08, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
The AFP has gotten wind of an upcoming article in the New Yorker exposing the Bush administration's plan to use extensive bombing, particularly nuclear bunker busters, against Iran.
Participants in . . . more
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April 21, 2006 04:40 PM EDT --
Sometimes I read stuff that just amazes me, especially as it is clearer and clearer that Ahmed-i-Nejad is Bush's doppelganger. Seriously, just read it and insert Bush for Ahmed-i-Nejad and it sounds . . . more
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December 26, 2006 02:14 PM EST --
Competition has been fierce this year for the fifteenth annual P.U.-litzer Prizes.
Many can plausibly lay claim to stinky media performances, but only . . . more
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December 14, 2006 12:17 AM EST --
Friday Iran will hold mid-term elections for the Assembly of Experts and municipal elections. Ahmedinejad was once mayor of Tehran, so municipal elections are important. This year's elections pit rival . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Tradition has it that Isfahan's Friday mosque sits on what was once a Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Now, I have been inside mosques that used to be Fire Temples, most notably the Maggak-i-Attari in Bukhara . . . more
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November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . . more
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November 11, 2006 11:20 AM EST --
We passed through the Qeysarieh gate (see previous post for location), a pair of Parthian horsemen turning backwards, bows drawn, ready for a final shot, stand at opposite ends of the tympanum. Was the . . . more
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December 16, 2006 01:21 PM EST --
If this article is anything to go by Ahmedinejad and his uber-conservatives are going to have a bad day in Tehran. It appears that Ahmedinejad's candidate for the Council of Experts is in sixth place . . . more
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June 09, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
This is excerpted from a new Borowitz Report from humorist-columnist Andy Borowitz:
Conservative Pundit, Iranian Madman to Face Off on Live TV
By Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report
Conservative pundit . . . more
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December 19, 2006 04:59 PM EST --
Many people have asked me, in the wake of my recent trip to Iran, “do last week’s elections really matter?” Today, as the results pour in, they’ve begun asking “how are the . . . more
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April 12, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
An activist and progressive organizer friend of mine writes in with this:
Over the next four months the drumbeat about Iran continues until most of the country thinks they're ready to bomb us. They . . . more
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April 17, 2006 09:48 AM EDT --
And here we begin yet another entry whose title was so very nearly something like, "How Stupid Are These Cretins!?" And I thought to myself, "Self, while it's true that the . . . more
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December 15, 2006 02:49 PM EST --
From Duetsche Presse Agentur:
The Experts' Assembly and municipality elections in Iran finished Friday after 12 hours, following a series of extensions.
Polling opened at 0530 GMT and was scheduled . . . more
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September 18, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
You know, it's one thing to read about our pending Iranian war plans in the pages of the New Yorker written by Sy Hersh. If you find them there, like we did several months ago, there is usually some . . . more
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December 03, 2006 12:56 AM EST --
Senior intelligence officer at CENTCOM Brig Gen. John Custer (yeah, I know, not the most auspicious surname in the world) had some very interesting things to say about those dastardly, evil, vile Iranians . . . more
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December 14, 2006 06:24 PM EST --
Steve Clemon's has a whopper of a story today:
While reports of how far Bandar has gone in supporting Cheney's desire for military action vary, insiders report that Bandar has "essentially . . . more
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