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Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in Tehran on June 17, 2013 (AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI)

Rouhani pledges to re-establish trust on nuclear issue

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 17, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran’s president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, gave his first national press conference on Monday, answering questions on his plans for Iran’s foreign policy and economy, and pledged to re-establish trust in the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear...

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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holds up copies of the Quran and the Bible as he addresses the 65th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York in this September 23, 2010 file picture. Source Reuters/Mike Segar

Ahmedinejad’s About Face

by Alex Vatanka | Jun 14, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

On his eight trips to New York to attend the annual UN Assembly gatherings, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never missed a chance to present himself as a revolutionary. He thundered each time from the UN podium that Iran can help bring about a different kind of...

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President Barack Obama addressing a crowd in Chicago, Friday February 15 2013 (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Obama’s Outstretched Hand to Iran

by Tariq Alhomayed | Feb 6, 2013 | Opinion

Ever since Barack Obama assumed the presidency of his country he has pursued the ‘outstretched hand’ policy towards Iran, without success. Today, four years later, Washington has again renewed this policy towards Tehran, this time in the words of the US vice...

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

Iran’s Grand Designs

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 5, 2013 | Opinion

We must commend Iran’s ability to preoccupy the world, financing crises and initiating battles in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain. This is not to mention south-east Asian and Central African countries, in...