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... and a change in geopolitics in the Middle East. The structure of political actors in power has shifted from Arab Sunni-Shiite to Shiite-Kurdish, and this has led to the transformation of Iraqi identity from an Arab-Sunni political identity to Iranian Shiite identity, providing Iran with an opportunity...

.... In the Iranian political system the Speaker is the third most powerful man in the country, after the supreme leader and the president. If the conservatives failed to hold on to their parliamentary majority, as was predicted, then the next best thing for them was to secure the Speaker's chair, so went...

...Mohsen M. Milani Mohsen M. Milani IRAN'S ACTIVE NEUTRALITY DURING THE KUWAITI CRISIS: REASONS AND RAMIFICATIONS Abstract Since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Iranian foreign policy has become increasingly moderate. Iran's active neutrality during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait...

... leader of Iranians and that he is indeed fighting Western imperialism. Meanwhile, for the last forty years, Iranians from all backgrounds have tried everything not only to show their rejection of the ruling regime but also to bring it down. Even armed struggle has been continual throughout the last forty...

... activities of the Iranian "Green Movement" was considered so apparent and crucial that the protests were dubbed a "Twitter Revolution," while in Egypt internet-facilitated protests were characterized as a "Facebook Revolution." These struggles and the surrounding rhetoric also reopened a discussion...

... unionist and member of the Bay Area Kapstate Collective, who had been invited to Iran by Iranian students as part of a larger American' 'Grass Roots" delegation. Speakers from within our own ranks followed this precedent, giving presentations on their own work and on issues of current interest. Members...

... political practices. Foucault's remarkably contentious analyses of the Iranian revolution in particular have garnered a lot of attention over the last few years, even resulting in a booklength study-Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson's Foucault and the Iranian Revolution.1 Earlier versions of this article were...

... into pro- and anti-Iranian camps was also employed towards the end of the second Bush administration, particularly after the congressional elections of 2006, with the purpose of reinforcing historical alliances between the US and Gulf rulers and reaffirming the US commitment to Israeli security.67...

.... But with all this, one can still raise some very important issues, for example in relation to Negri's treatment of feminist concerns. His praise of the resistance to the theocratic establishment in Iran is a good example. Framing the Iranian situation as "anything but totalitarian" he writes of the "incredible...

... superpower, was the eInergcnce of US client states. The 1950s and early 1960s witnessed three important events which signaled the selection of these subordinatcs. In 1953, the US successfully reinstalled a deposed Shah back onto the Iranian throne and surgically removed the nationalist prilnc minister...

... challenged Western control of-though not access to-oil. The Iranian nationalization of Anglo-Iranian oil in 1951 was followed two years later by the covert Anglo-American coup, Operation Ajax, which toppled the Iranian prime minister and reinstated the shah, with CIA backing. Three years later, Egyptian...

... the guise of a transnational Islamic coalition, from the outset the OIC was destined to serve its progenitors' national agendas: a Saudi plan to contain Nasserite radicalism, a Pakistani desire for increased security and finance, and a Moroccan-Iranian public relations campaign in the face of increased...

... first massive influx of non-European communities in the modern era, composed of Iranians fleeing from the newly established Islamic 23Henriette Ruhrmann and David FitzGerald, "The Externalization of Europe's Borders in the Refugee Crisis, 2015-2016," Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, Working...

..., was informed by his engagement with the Iranian revolution. Foucault's late exploration of the practice of parrhesia-a form of "courageous truth-telling" in which both the speaker and listener expose themselves to the risk of a potentially hurtful, disruptive, or challenging truthwas, for Hoffman, the result...

... Biebricher, "The Practices of Theorists: Habermas and Foucault as Public Intellectuals," Philosophy & Social Criticism 37:6 (2011), pp.709-734; Alain Beaulieu, "Towards a Liberal Utopia: The Connection between Foucault's Reporting on the Iranian Revolution and the Ethical Turn," Philosophy & Social...

... the first full-scale revolt within the army. In March 1979, the main Afghan city on the Iranian border, Herat, rose in rebellion, led by an Islamist officer, Ishmael Kahn. Kahn became a famous mujahideen leader, was governor of Herat, and was said to run the province well. He is now in Kabul as Karzai's...

...-standing liberal-democratic tradition. My mother was Guatemalan; my father was Iranian; my younger brother was born in Tehran. A few months after I was born, my parents, who had courted and married while earning degrees at US universities, left for their home countries. Due to a geographic and romantic...

... the month before-only a few days after Chinese President Hu had finished up his own visit to Cuba. For his part, after putting on the summit for regional leaders, President Lula of Brazil would soon be hosting Iranian President Ahmadinejad on an official state visit. At the end of 2008, as President-elect...

...; second quotation: "Soviet Assails U.S. on War Chemicals," Ne'lv York Times, August 14, 1968. 56Tucker, War of Nerves, pp. 190-192. 122 Ido Oren and Ty Solomon chemical attacks against Iranian combatants. In late 1987 the Iraqi army began a chemical warfare campaign against hundreds of villages and towns...

..." should Egypt sign a treaty with Israel. l9 At 168 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE Tunis, the summit was visited by representatives from the new revolutionary regime in Iran, looking for Arab support of the Iranian takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran. The Iranians were barred from the conference hall while inside...