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Iran's talking point: 'Dignity' in nuclear work
DUBAI: Days before Iran's just-completed parliamentary elections, the country's supreme leader gave what amounted to a pep rally on the Islamic Republic's nuclear views. Atomic technology is a pillar of "national dignity," boasted Ayatollah Ali (...)

07 - 03 - 2012
Saudi flexes Gulf grip with Bahrain 'union' plans
DUBAI: During a sermon last week at Bahrain's Grand Mosque, the pro-government prayer leader offered sweeping praise for one of the Arab Spring's counter-revolutions: Gulf rulers bonding together against dissent with powerful Saudi Arabia as their (...)

05 - 03 - 2012
Ahmadinejad seeks rebound in Iranian elections
TEHRAN: There's a Persian saying used to describe an under-the-radar political effort: "Driving at night with the lights off." Allies of embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be doing just that as they campaign in Iran's hinterlands in hopes (...)

09 - 02 - 2012
Arab uprisings reshape map of US influence
DUBAI: About 18 months before the Egyptian uprising that would doom Hosni Mubarak, a US diplomatic cable was sent from Cairo. It described Mubarak as the likely president-for-life and said his regime's ability to intimidate critics and rig elections (...)

12 - 12 - 2011
Bahrain hints at evidence of Iran protest links
MANAMA: Bahrain suggested Thursday that it has classified evidence that Iran was linked to Shia-led protests in the Gulf kingdom despite an independent commission that said it found nothing to back the claims. The allegations of Iranian (...)

24 - 11 - 2011
Options for Iran oil sanctions face economic risks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With Iran angrily defiant about a U.N. report accusing it of developing nuclear weapons, Western powers and allies face complicated questions on how to further tighten pressure on the oil giant without shaking the (...)

10 - 11 - 2011
Israel's warnings on Iran get quiet nods in Gulf
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Among the many alliances of convenience in the Middle East, one is so unusual that the partners can barely hint about it publicly: Israel and the Gulf Arab states linked by shared fears over Iran's nuclear (...)

07 - 11 - 2011
Iran's supreme leader ups fight with Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN: In the ongoing political skirmishes among Iran's leadership, it was the equivalent of bringing out the heavy ammunition: The country's most powerful figure warning that the post of elected president could someday be scrapped. Although no (...)

19 - 10 - 2011
Al-Awlaki: From voice for jihad to al-Qaida figure
SANAA, Yemen — The heavy black beard spoke of Islamic piety, the fashionable wire-rim glasses of Western style. Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born, a gifted Muslim preacher and savvy Internet operator, became a powerful al-Qaida tool for recruiting (...)

01 - 10 - 2011
Iran to Syria: Save regime and preserve alliance
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Two weeks after Egypt's uprising swept aside Hosni Mubarak, the presidents of Iran and Syria stood side by side in Damascus in a blunt message to the Arab Spring: The Syrian regime can count on its allies in (...)

30 - 09 - 2011
Iran's 'damaged' president heads for UN spotlight
CAIRO — There was a time when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used his annual trip to the United Nations for two big objectives: Basking in the attention of America's media hub and personally delivering the views of the Islamic Republic to (...)

16 - 09 - 2011
Arab Spring drifts into summer stalemates
CAIRO (AP) — Among the protest banners in Cairo's Tahrir Square was a hand-drawn map of the Arab Spring with black target symbols covering each country hit by anti-government uprisings since the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt were ousted earlier this (...)

14 - 07 - 2011
Top Al-Qaeda ranks are keeping footholds in Iran
DUBAI: On a cold March morning last year, an Iranian diplomat was flown home nearly 15 months after being kidnapped by gunmen in an ambush on the Pakistani side of the Khyber Pass. Iran hailed the release as a victory for its intelligence agents, (...)

10 - 07 - 2011
Saudi activist: 5 women detained for driving
DUBAI: At least five Saudi women have been taken into custody accused of defying the men-only driving rule in the ultraconservative Arab kingdom, an activist said Wednesday. The detentions mark the first major backlash by authorities since a (...)

29 - 06 - 2011
Saudi women tap road rage against driving ban
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi woman defiantly drove through the nation's capital while others brazenly cruised by police patrols in the first forays of a campaign that hopes to ignite a road rebellion against the male-only driving rules (...)

18 - 06 - 2011
Bahrain's king orders end to emergency law
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): Bahrain's king set a fast-track timetable to end martial law-style rule Sunday in a bid to display confidence that authorities have smothered a pro-reform uprising even as rights groups denounced the hard-line (...)

09 - 05 - 2011
Islamic world quiet as bin Laden age closes
DUBAI: In life, Osama bin Laden was burned into the Muslim consciousness in countless ways: the lion of holy warriors, the untouchable nemesis of the West, the evil zealot who soiled their faith with blood and intolerance. In death, however, the (...)

05 - 05 - 2011
US union group: End trade pact with Bahrain
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: A powerful U.S.-based labor organization is urging Washington to suspend a free trade pact with Bahrain in response to the Gulf nation's crackdown that includes purging union leaders accused of supporting pro-reform (...)

02 - 05 - 2011
Clashes in Bahrain before planned protest rally
DUBAI: Bahrain's security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protesters Monday in advance of plans to stage major rallies and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time, witnesses said. It was the (...)

14 - 02 - 2011
Iran exiles mourn shah's son after suicide
PARIS: The apparent suicide of the former shah of Iran's youngest son has shocked and saddened Iranian emigres, many of whom were forced into exile by the Islamic Revolution and hoped their country's monarchy could one day be restored. The death (...)

05 - 01 - 2011
Bahrain's embattled Shias keep parliament seats
MANAMA: Bahrain's embattled Shia-led opposition held on to all of its parliament seats in weekend elections, according to official results announced Sunday, but fell short of the majority it hoped to win as a show of strength against the island (...)

25 - 10 - 2010
Iraq's political gambits move to regional stage
BAGHDAD: Iraq's political bazaar is branching out. Envoys for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his chief rival crossed paths in Kuwait this week. Iraq's deputy prime minister just returned from Turkey and a top Shia powerbroker and others have (...)

08 - 10 - 2010
Iraqi Shia militia hints of Iran's hand in south
BAGHDAD: Nearly four minutes of shaky, hand-held video clips show roadside bombs hitting US convoys, a battery of Katyusha rockets and a soldier who appeared to be downed by sniper fire. And digitally burned into the left-hand corner is the (...)

30 - 09 - 2010
Iran's president brings political baggage to NY
DUBAI: Iran's president will likely swagger into New York next week in much the same style as past visits for the annual UN General Assembly: ready to take his jabs at America on its home turf. But any outward confidence on the big US stage (...)

17 - 09 - 2010
Mideast passions quiet over NY mosque showdown
DUBAI: On the streets of lower Manhattan, there's no mistaking how the passions flow: One side saying it's their patriotic duty to block a planned Islamic center and the other insisting America cannot curtail freedoms as revenge for the Sept. 11 (...)

24 - 08 - 2010
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