Tag: Iran

  • US and Iran Showdown Disastrous for the World

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    US and Iran Showdown Disastrous for the World

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Encircling Iran by maintaining its military presence in five of the seven countries sharing borders with Iran, the US is already working overtime to neutralize Iran’s nuclear programme with threats or coaxing. Whereas, Israel, all the time, is cajoling US for some tangible action beyond…

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  • Iran and the US: Regime Change Not an Option

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    Iran and the US: Regime Change Not an Option

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Anti Iran enthusiasts in the US hope that one day Iran will witness yet another homegrown revolution of its own and get rid of the Mullah (Clergy) enjoying sweeping powers there. A reality check, however, tells entirely a different story and reveals why regime change…

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  • US-Iran Relations Require Re-thinking

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    US-Iran Relations Require Re-thinking

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Popular perception in the lands of Islam regarding the US stance on Iran’s nuclear programme should be very unpalatable to American policy makers who, in their own right, believe they are trying to make the world safer to live. A dominant majority perceives that America’s…

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    Living with Nuclear Iran

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Anti-Iran passion seems to have befogged the Western intelligentsia to such an extent that far fetched and illusionary analogies are drawnbetween the collapse of the soviet empire and the opposition movement in Iran.Over ambitious sphinxes in the West think Iranian opposition iscomparable in many ways…

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    Impossible Regime Change in Iran

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Down the lane of history Western leaders have shown paucity, at times, rather absence of any moral standards while dealing with Islam or Islamic regimes. They usually claimed to uphold the standard of justice and fair play, however, in most cases whenever any Islamic regime…

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  • US Economic Onslaught on Iran

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    US Economic Onslaught on Iran

    Syed Javed Hussain

    The United States is cruising along a course to impose stricter sanctions on Iran but presently will be satisfied with the fourth set of sanctions that are not so biting.According to Paul Richter of Los Angeles Times reporting from Washington , the Obama administration signalled…

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    Iran’s Principled Stand on Enrichment

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Iran’s stand on nuclear enrichment at home is legally justified, morally and ethically correct, and if international relations are not run on any legal or moral grounds then it is not any fault of Iran to forego its right only because it has not been…

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    Mounting US Follies in the Gulf

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Since the fall of Baghdad in 2003 although the US is tied up rather completely bogged down in Iraq , all its regional policies, under the influence of powerful Jewish lobby at home, are Iran specific and anti- regional-peace and stability.The US expects the fluid…

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    Pattern of US-Israel Pressure on Iran

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Israel, through its lobbies in the US is trying to create a diabolical perception in which the US is being blamed for ‘America-Late-Syndrome’ as consistent American pattern for acting late when the world mostly needed it to act urgently on time with dire consequences.According to…

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    Escalating Rhetoric and Actions

    Syed Javed Hussain

    It took about six years for Bush administration to come to terms with realitiesin Korean peninsula and start direct negotiations with North Korea that it had been demanding all along. It took a lot of wrangling as well as adamant nuclear explosion by NK to…

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