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Opinion: US Election Day – Come Back America

by Amir Taheri | Nov 8, 2016 | Opinion

Millions of Americans will go the polls today to elect their 45th president at the end of an unusually bruising campaign. Though many have already voted through the post, the question remains: how many will go to the polls today? An estimated 250 million people are...

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Opinion: Clinton or Trump – Better or Less Bad?

by Amir Taheri | Nov 4, 2016 | Opinion

Hillary Clinton or Donald trump, which one might be better for the Middle East? This is the question friends have been asking me for weeks. It is not easy to answer because it assumes that both candidates are good and that one could be better than the other. However,...

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Opinion: Deceptive Leaders

by Samir Atallah | Aug 27, 2016 | Opinion

In the west disgrace afflicts those who deceive their own people, not those who are defeated. The Chilcot report on the Iraq war does not condemn Tony Blair because he lost the war, but rather because he, along with George W. Bush, was involved in one of the worst...

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Opinion: The Shock of the Russian Base in Iran

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 18, 2016 | Opinion

By granting the Russians their first military airbase in Iran, the Iranians have cut the distance that Russian bombers have to fly by approximately 1000 kilometres. However, the political meaning of the development in relations between the two countries is more...

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Opinion: The Syrians Are Waiting For November

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 18, 2016 | Opinion

Last Saturday, Asharq Al-Awsat mentioned that it had been informed by ‘Western diplomatic sources’ that Staffan de Mistura, the UN and Arab League Envoy to Syria, was coming under Russo-American pressures that aim at holding a new round of negotiations in Geneva....