From the monthly archives:

December 2008

No Iranian Preference for Obama, McCain

by Abbas Djavadi on December 5, 2008

obiIt was the “news” the McCain campaign would probably love to be true, when AFP reported this week that the Iranian parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, would “prefer Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the White House next year.”

The story quoted Larijani at a press conference in Manama, Bahrain, as saying, “We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational.”

My immediate reaction was surprise, knowing Tehran’s policy that “the yellow dog is the brother of the jackal.” If true, it would have played into the hands of the McCain campaign.

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Tajikistan, An Open Country?

by Abbas Djavadi03.12.2008
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In his analysis of Central Asia published in Foreign Affairs, Charles William Maynes, President of the Eurasia Foundation, wrote that Tajikistan is “more open” than all other Central Asian countries. Other sources describe this mainly mountainous, small country of six million people as a “limited pluralism” with “low-level instability.”
After all, exceptional to other Central Asian [...]

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