Soon after taking office in summer 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sacked most of his country's ambassadors. Many of the posts left vacant as a result have been slowly filled, but the resulting dearth of professional skill in the conduct (...)
When will the facts undermine the Bush administration's self-proclaimed certainties, asks Mehran Kamrava*
As the United States gears up for its forthcoming presidential elections it has chipped away at its own global moral power for generations to (...)