The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been waging an insurgency against Turkey for over 30 years for an autonomous if not an independent state in the country's predominantly Kurdish southeast. Dilek, a former staff officer in the Turkish military, feels unification with the energy-rich Iraqi K...
She is the fifth Scripps champion to be coached by Walters, a former speller, fellow Texan and student at Rice University who is considering bowing out of the coaching business. Harini also got help from Navneeth Murali, who handed her one of those runner-ups in the 2020 SpellPundit online...
Iranian rial Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ايران) is an Islamic fascist[1][2][3][4] theocratic dictatorship in southwest Asia. Its capital is Tehran and its official language is Farsi. A historical name for Iran...
US seizes three dozen websites used for 'Iranian disinformation' (June 23, 2021)The Drone Revolution Comes to England (May 4, 2021)As cities and towns are faced with rising poverty, homelessness and drug addiction, the authorities respond with more social control, using a technology that ...
Media's Top Meaning for 'Proxy' Is 'Iranian Ally' (April 21, 2021)"Proxy," defined as someone who works on someone else's behalf, is a term of delegitimation in international politics: It undermines the credibility of both those who are accused of being "proxies" and those accused of...
Iranians elected Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani as President in August 1997, hoping he would usher in a new era of freedom and reform. Khatami had modest successes in broadening the participation of Iranians in government and politics through initiating popular elections for local government councils and...
The article discusses why it would not be a good idea for Iran to develop nuclear weapons. In the author's view, those including former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski who claim Iran would not use such weapons because Iranian leaders...
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s speeches were smuggled back into Iran during the 1970s as an increasing number of unemployed and working-poor Iranians—mostly new migrants from the countryside, who were disenchanted by the cultural vacuum of modern urban Iran—turned to the ulama for guidance. The shah’s dependence on the...