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Early reports suggest that in his testimony to a congressional committee today, General David Petraeus will claim that the Iranians assisted the Mahdi Army militia to fight the forces of Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in the recent week-long ...

Hiro: The Zero-Sum Fiasco

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Dilip Hiro
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Bush's woefully misguided invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, carried out under false pretences, has not only drained the United States treasury, but reduced Washington's standing in the Middle East in a way not yet fully grasped by most comm...

Hiro: How the Bush Administration's Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry

Znet Article, September, 27 2007 Dilip Hiro
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Here is the sentence in The Age of Turbulence, the 531-page memoir of former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, that caused so much turbule...

Hiro: The Sole Superpower in Decline

Znet Article, August, 21 2007 Dilip Hiro
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States stood tall -- militarily invincible, economically unrivalled, diplomatically uncontestable, and the dominating force on information channels worldwide. The next century was to be the...

Hiro: Nuclear Weapons Programs Are about Regime Survival

Znet Article, June, 10 2007 Dilip Hiro
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For countries -- small, middling, or great -- acquiring nuclear weapons is all about the most basic requirement: the survival of the regime or nation. Joining the "nuclear club" has proved an effective strategy for survival. The possession of city...

Hiro: Unholy Alliance

Znet Article, May, 12 2007 Dilip Hiro
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Recently Turkey came close to experiencing a soft military coup. In late April, faced with the prospect of the moderate Islamist Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul becoming president, the country's top generals threatened to overthrow the elected gover...

Hiro: Sadr's Rising Star to Eclipse Bush's Surge?

Znet Article, April, 15 2007 Dilip Hiro
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Public opinion polls are valuable chips to play for those engaged in a debate of national or international consequence. In the end, however, they are abstract numbers. It is popular demonstrations which give them substance, color, and -- above all...

Hiro: The

Znet Article, April, 11 2007 Dilip Hiro
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Throughout history, "wars of religion" have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. "Wars of religion" were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and...

Hiro: Another New Day In Iraq

Znet Article, May, 25 2006 Dilip Hiro
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On his first full day as the Iraqi prime minister, al-Maliki promised "maximum levels of force in confronting terrorists and killers". But if tough words alone could reverse Iraq's continuing slide into chaos, the country would by now be a haven o...

Hiro: The Rise of Political Islam

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Dilip Hiro
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By now, the voting will have begun in today's Palestinian elections. It's not clear how well Hamas -- the Arabic acronym which stands for Movement of Islamic Resistance -- will do, but opinion polls in the Palestinian territories show the Islamic ...

Hiro: Blair was warned

Znet Article, July, 11 2005 Dilip Hiro
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Thursday's bombings were not unexpected. Senior police officers had often warned that an attack in Britain was inevitable, a prediction they repeated as recently as last month. What the police officers and others did was to connect the dots, exami...

Hiro: The Iranian Nuclear Issue in a Global Context

Znet Article, May, 14 2005 Dilip Hiro
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With the Iranians threatening to resume some nuclear activities in the near future, their European Union (EU) interlocutors are threatening to break off their six-month long negotiations to resolve the nuclear issue diplomatically. They have calle...

Hiro: The Iran Nuclear Issue in a Global Context

Znet Article, May, 14 2005 Dilip Hiro
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With the Iranians threatening to resume some nuclear activities in the near future, their European Union (EU) interlocutors are threatening to break off their six-month long negotiations to resolve the nuclear issue diplomatically. They have calle...

Hiro: Playing the Democracy Card

Znet Article, March, 17 2005 Dilip Hiro
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The United States flaunts the banner of democracy in the Middle East only when that advances its economic, military, or strategic interests. The history of the past six decades shows that whenever there has been conflict between furthering democra...

Hiro: An Election That Sharpened Iraq's Fault Lines

Znet Article, February, 17 2005 Dilip Hiro
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An Election That Sharpened Iraq's Fault Lines

Hiro: Cul-de-sacs All Around:

Znet Article, January, 26 2005 Dilip Hiro
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Iraq's National Assembly poll on January 30 is already ...

Hiro: Iran's Nuclear Issue

Znet Article, December, 02 2004 Dilip Hiro
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Imagine a pious Muslim faced with a ban on fabricating a certain kind of weapon. He is committed to obeying unquestioningly the fatwas of his religious leader and yet discovers that producing such a weapon, or threatening to do so, is a strong lev...

Hiro: No Carrots, All Stick

Znet Article, November, 07 2004 Dilip Hiro
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With Vice-President Dick Cheney describing the presidential election result as "a broad, nationwide victory," secured on the platform of an unapologetically hard-line foreign policy, the world should expect more of the same from President George W...

Hiro: The Sarajevo of Iraq

Znet Article, July, 22 2004 Dilip Hiro
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The Sarajevo of Iraq

Hiro: Iraq Tipping Point

Znet Article, June, 25 2004 Dilip Hiro
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Iraq Tipping Point

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