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Persia or Iran had a crucial role in history for a variety of reasons, and Iran was not given that name until 1935. While Iranians had been calling their nation Iran since 1000 BC, this name change was only made so that the Western World would begin to refer to the country by the sa...
expressing concerns over the ineffectiveness of U.S. policy and predicting a likely continuation of the "protracted tug-of-war" in the region. He also said that while a direct war between the U.S. and Iran is improbable, the volatility remains high. ...
David Rothkopf
Since the start of the war, the situation in Syria became much more complicated, as other countries and organized fighters have entered the picture. Essentially, the Syrian government’s main backers are Russia, Iran and Hezbollah (a militia group based in Lebanon). The United States, Saudi Ar...
The threat emanating from the group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is so serious to the stability of the region -- and beyond – that even Iran said it would not oppose U.S. military intervention if it were aimed at the Islamists who have embarked on a rampage...
the real purpose. They’re saying very clearly, we can’t compete with the Chinese anymore. You know, they, we have our financialized economy, they have an actual industrial economy. We have to effectively begin to sabotage them if we’re going to be able to win...
OPEC could follow the recommendation of Iran that it switch to another reserve currency, like the recently appreciating Euro. Activists around the world, perturbed at various policies of the Bush administration, such as the war in Iraq and its refusal to sign the Kyoto accord on global warming,...
ally during the Iran-Iraq War—invaded neighboring Kuwait, a tiny, oil-rich nation that had friendly ties with the United States. In a move with consequences that continue to reverberate today, the United States would organize an impressive global alliance to drive the Iraqis out of Kuwait in...