By Safa Haeri
Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the major Iraqi Kurdish organisations active in the north of the country, was in Ankara a few weeks ago for a "summit" meeting with his arch-enemy and political (...)
By Safa Haeri
America looks set to fan the flames of a new conflict in Central Asia by provoking divided, politically insecure Iranian clerics on the one hand, and the ultra-orthodox Taliban who now rule over Kabul on the other.
Take a lame-duck (...)
Kicking against Khatami
By Safa Haeri
The conservative-controlled 270-seat Iranian parliament last Sunday ousted Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri, considered to be one of President Mohamed Khatami's strongest supporters.
The impeachment was (...)