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A picture taken in Tehran on March 4, 2015 shows the front pages of Iranian newspapers displaying headlines in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United States Congress regarding Iran’s nuclear program. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)

How the nuclear issue divided the Iranian media

by Amir Taheri | Sep 21, 2015 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—For over a year one story has dominated the Iranian media: settling the dispute over the nuclear project and getting sanctions lifted. Having won the presidency with the smallest margin in the lowest turnout in the history of elections in the...

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Iraqi Vice-President Iyad Allawi speaks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq: Former VP Allawi calls for Abadi’s removal

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 21, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s former vice president Iyad Allawi, whose post was canceled by Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, has called for Iraqi MPs to remove the PM. Abadi canceled Iraq’s three vice president posts in August as part of a drive to weed...

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A picture taken on April 1, 2015 shows Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin talking to the press at the Yemeni embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

Yemeni government not informed of UN-brokered talks in Muscat: FM

by Arafat Madabish | Sep 21, 2015 | Middle East

Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Yemeni government has not been informed of UN-brokered talks currently being held in the Omani capital Muscat in order to resolve the crisis in Yemen, Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin said on Sunday. UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh...