For those who don’t read Obsidian Wings or the other sites which have commented on it, our own Eric Martin has gotten married.
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I’d read about this somewhere else, but forgot to blog about it: “Several Shi’ite clerics have disagreed with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the date of Eid al-Fitr, the three-day Islamic celebration that marks the end of Ramadan, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports… “Khamenei announced that the fast finished on September 20, while [...] What is former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani up to? Last week, many interpreted his call for Quds Day protests as a clever means of supporting the opposition. Rafsanjani did not, however, mention the Iranian election in his call. He has also been calling for national unity behind Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i, [...] The sixth and last chapter of Juan Cole’s Engaging the Muslim World examines the United States’s relationship with Iran. The first part of the chapter is a look at Iran’s current political system, noting the ways in which anti-Iranian sentiments and fears are whipped up through distortions of evidence and even bizarre fantasies, such [...] At long last, the Obama administration has provided a draft of its objectives with respect to the ongoing military occupation of Afghanistan, as well as a series of metrics for gauging the success in terms of meeting those aims. Unfortunately, the enunciated objectives are themselves typical of the muddled and contradictory goals, tactics and strategies associated [...] James Joyner passes along some rather unremarkable news about India’s views on the ongoing US occupation of Afghanistan - unremarkable news given the regional dynamic that pits India (in support of the Karzai government) against Pakistan (who had strongly backed the Taliban as its proxy/ally in Afghanistan): India’s new ambassador to the United States, Meera Shankar, told the [...] One ongoing question in Iranian politics is the relative power of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, and the IRGC. In an interview with RFE-RL, Mahmud Tehrani, Khamene’i’s nephew, supports the view that the Supreme Leader might not be so supreme: “I think Khamenei — who is my uncle — is either [...] |
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