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By Imran Garda in Americas on January 31st, 2011
Photo by AFP.

Here’s a little help if ambition ever drives you to one day hope to be a spokesman for the US government. Alternately, if decoding why very similar events can be officially responded to in completely dissimilar ways gets you as excited as it gets me - read on.

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton - after the watershed popular uprising in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, authoritarian rule, where police have gunned down protesters from Cairo to Alexandra - urged "restraint on both sides".

 

By Marwan Bishara in Imperium on February 20th, 2010
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The following excerpts from a January Bloomberg report about 'Dubai helping Iran evade sanctions' is an indispensable read.

It provides an interesting background for US silence about the escalatory alleged Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader in a fancy hotel in the middle of Dubai, bordering on complicity. (The assassins wore tennis outfits, some say, a reminder to Dubai who rejected an entry visa to Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer this time last year.)

Dubai is seen as a major obstacle in light of Washington's serious efforts at imposing a new round of biting sanctions against Iran as a way of forcing it to freeze its nuclear programme.

Unless it shuts down its trade and other economic transactions with Iran, including investments, tourism etc, as explained below, no sanctions could work effectively.

By Teymoor Nabili in Americas, Middle East on December 29th, 2009

The National Iranian American Council despairs at the latest questionable editorial offering from the New York Times, authored by the director of the Asia programme at the Center for International Policy, Selig S. Harrison.

"Bizarrely, Harrison says the US should give material support (beyond what it already may covertly provide) to PJAK, Jundullah, Arabs in Khuzestan, and anybody else who might accept it."

Selig's advice to Washington on how to unseat the Iranian government centres on what the NIAC calls "two gigantic 'ifs'":

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