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Ahmadinejad — An Embarrassment for Iran

by Abbas Djavadi on April 20, 2009

ahmadinejad3In a first reaction to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN conference in Geneva, Ahmad Moussavi from Iran wrote on Radio Farda’s Facebook page: “I am ashamed as an Iranian. And I don’t know what else to say.”

At the anti-racism conference on Monday, Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being “racist.” “Using the Jewish suffering and the Holocaust as an excuse [...] they created a racist government in the occupied Palestinian territories,” he said, pointing to the post-World War II Western powers.

Life proved right the U.S., Germany, Canada, Australia, and some other Western countries that had boycotted the meeting, fearing that the Iranian president would repeat his previous accusations against the Jewish state. Once Ahmadinejad started his speech at the conference with anti-Israeli attacks, representatives of 25 other countries including all remaining members of the EU walked out the meeting in protest.

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Turkey Doesn’t Deserve This

by Abbas Djavadi30.01.2009
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fiery exchange with Israeli President Shimon Peres on January 29 at the World Economic Forum in Davos may earn him votes in Turkey’s next municipal elections in March this year or sympathy on Arab streets. But it is hard to expect that it would not harm Turkey’s role as [...]

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Gaza War Over: And Now The Results…

by Abbas Djavadi18.01.2009
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First the news: Israel declared a unileteral ceasefire in the Gaza strip on Sunday meant to end three devastating weeks of war against Hamas militants who have been shelling Israel with rockets. Hours after the truce, militant fired a volley of rockets into Israel and Israel responded with air attacks against northen Gaza.
Now some facts:
Killed [...]

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Israelis and Turks — Far But Still Close

by Abbas Djavadi14.01.2009
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Israel waged the Gaza offensive to crush the extremist Hamas group that has been shelling Israel and acting as Iran’s “proxy.” One cannot avoid civilian casualties when the enemy has mixed with civilians in a densely populated small piece of land. But even Israelis have started to raise doubts: out of more than 1,000 Palestinian [...]

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Would Disabling Hamas Benefit All?

by Abbas Djavadi10.01.2009
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Last week, a few dozen militant Iranian “students” staged a sit-in at the Tehran Airport, demanding to be sent to Gaza to fight along with Hamas against Israel. OK, nobody asked how they wanted to fly to Gaza while the Yassir Arafat Airport is closed and Israel has sealed the whole border line. Even the UN [...]

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Iranian Reflections on Gaza, Hamas

by Abbas Djavadi06.01.2009
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Forget about all the fiery speeches at Teheran’s Friday prayers and the headlines of the daily Kayhan: “Hamas will win at last!” And Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament says: “Israel started the war, but they won’t be those who end it” (means they will lose, as they did in Lebanon). “Those who resist [...]

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Gaza: Oiling the Wheels of Conflict, Hate

by Abbas Djavadi05.01.2009
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How did it start? The easy answer is that Hamas last month decided not to extend a truce with the Israelis and resumed firing random rockets from Gaza into southern Israel. In turn, Israel launched a week of air strikes against Hamas positions and other areas of Gaza. After a week of aerial bombardment, Israel [...]

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