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MIDEAST: As U.S. Winds Down, Iraq Tilts Toward Iran

MIDEAST: NEW YORK, Jul 30 (IPS) - A raid by Iraqi security forces on a camp of Iranian dissidents is widely seen as a sign that Iraqi authorities are establishing their independence as the U.S. occupation winds down and tilting instead ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Robert Gates,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  Nouri al-Maliki

US-IRAN: Waiting for the Dust to Settle

US-IRAN: NEW YORK, Jul 25 (IPS) - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is stuck between a rock and a hard place in its Iran policy. On the one hand, the recent unrest will take time to percolate into a reformed Islamic ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  25 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Gary Ackerman,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,  Ali Khamenei

US-IRAN: To Deal or Not to Deal, That Is the Question

US-IRAN: NEW YORK, Jul 17 (IPS) - In 2007, after eight months of detention in Iran four in solitary confinement in Tehran's notorious Evin prison Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari returned to the U.S. and held a press conference at ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  17 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

POLITICS: U.S.-Based Leading Rights Group Denies Improprieties

POLITICS: NEW YORK, Jul 16 (IPS) - After its May trip to Saudi Arabia recently garnered attention, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has come under a hailstorm of criticism by defenders of Israeli policy who claim that the trip ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: George Mason,  Wall Street Journal

U.S.: Obama Discredits 'Green Light' for Israeli Attack on Iran

U.S.: By Jim Lobe and Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Jul 7 (IPS) - Seeking to end speculation about whether his administration had eased its opposition to an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, U.S. President Barack Obama ...

From JIM LOBE AND ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Joe Biden,  Dennis Ross,  American Enterprise Institute,  George Stephanopoulos

POLITICS: Negative Views of U.S. Persist Despite Faith in Obama

POLITICS: WASHINGTON, Jul 7 (IPS) - A new survey of global opinion reveals strong negative feelings toward U.S. foreign policy, even as an average of 61 percent of those polled have at least some confidence in President Barack Obama to ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

US-AFGHANISTAN: Four Thousand Marines to "Drink Lots of Tea"

US-AFGHANISTAN: WASHINGTON, Jul 2 (IPS) - After months of planning and putting pieces in order, aspects of the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan are beginning to be concretely implemented including a surge of troops and attempts to curtail ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  2 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hamid Karzai,  NATO

POLITICS-US: Obama "Appalled" by Iran Repression

POLITICS-US: By Khody Akhavi and Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (IPS) - Facing a growing chorus of Republican criticism to speak out more forcefully on Irans disputed election results, the U.S. president made his harshest statement yet ...

From KHODY AKHAVI AND ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  23 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Mark Kirk,  U.S. Congress

POLITICS: Will "Changed" Iran Complicate U.S. Engagement?

POLITICS: WASHINGTON, Jun 18 (IPS) - As uncertainty persists about the results of the Iranian election last Friday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama remains quiet on just exactly what the next tack will be on engaging the ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  18 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Ali Khamenei,  Central Intelligence Agency,  Brookings Institution

U.S.: Report Blasts Terror Financing Laws and Investigations

U.S.: WASHINGTON, Jun 17 (IPS) - Muslim charities in the United States are subject to unfair treatment by the government under terrorism financing laws, according to a new report which says the effect has been a chill on charitable giving ...

From ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  17 Jun 2009
Related Topics: American Civil Liberties Union,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Congress,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

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