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SAUDI ARABIA 09/05/2003 Riyadh Fears Shi'ite Peril The sudden resurgence of Shi'ites in Iraq has given a boost to their brethren in Saudi Arabia. Anxious to keep religious tension at bay, the royal family in Riyadh has agreed to meet with them. [...]
IRAN SYRIA 03/04/2003 Syria & Iran Rooting for Saddam? The Syrian and Iranian regimes believe their influence in the region could be destroyed if the U.S. Central Command wins a crushing victory in Iraq. [...]
IRAQ 06/02/2003 Operations Start in Iraq U.S. special forces are already operating in northern Iraq to pave the way for the arrival of the American forces. Working in league with the Turkish military, they are attempting to undermine the Iraqi regime's defense system. [...]
Spotlight IRAN UNITED NATIONS 24/10/2002 Veil Lifted on Iran’s Nuclear Program Diplomatic sparring in the United Nations Security Council concerning a possible military intervention in Iraq has had some unexpected fallout. The success of any military operation would depend partly on the participation of Shi’ite opponents of Saddam Hussein who are [. [...]
Spotlight IRAQ 26/09/2002 Who Will Control Iraq’s Oil in Future? The representative of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) in London, Hamid Al Bayati, has told Intelligence Online that the six components of the Iraqi opposition are to meet ?somewhere in a European city at the [. [...]
IRAQ 29/08/2002 Political Clout of Iraqi Dissidents With the U.S. apparently moving towards military action in Iraq, the many opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime who live abroad are lining up to take over the country's leadership. [...]
Spotlight IRAN 25/04/2002 The New Struggle for Caspian Sea Oil Although the Caspian Sea summit meeting held in Ashkahabad in Turkmenistan on April 23-24 resulted in a consensus between the five governments bordering the sea the very circumstances of the agreement could trigger future regional conflicts. [...]
GERMANY 25/04/2002 Tunisia's Fundamentalist Diaspora The West German investigation into the attack against the synagogue in Ghriba in Tunisia has gradually cast a spotlight on [...]
UNITED STATES IRAN 28/02/2002 Why U.S. Did a U-Turn on Iran For a number of weeks officials from the U.S. State Department conducted semi-official negotiations with Iranian moderates in offices lent to them by the Swiss embassy in Tehran. That was last October. [...]
IRAN 14/02/2002 Tehran Lines up with Axis of Evil A week after George W. Bush's state of the union speech in which he identified Iran as being part of an "axis of evil" Teheran seems to be taking him at his word. The country's reformists have seldom been so powerless. [...]
IRAN 31/01/2002 Bin Laden's 12 Men in Iran The hard line wing of Iran's Pasdarans headed by Mohsen Rezai is suspected of helping Al Qaeda in a big way. It reportedly assisted 12 of the terrorist movement's leaders to make their way from Afghanistan to Iran. [...]
UNITED STATES LEBANON 17/01/2002 Washington Gunning for Lebanon’s Hezbollah The U.S. administration has opened a full-scale offensive in Beirut and Damascus against Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The aim is to prevent Iranian fundamentalists from using the organization for operations beyond Lebanon’s borders. [...]
IRAN 29/11/2001 Akbar Dianat Far On Nov. 20 Iran’s spiritual leader, Ali Khamenei , named gen. Akbar Dianat Far as head of the Iranian army’s [...]
UNITED STATES IRAN 31/10/2001 Tehran and Washington Inch Closer Together The guardians of Iran’s revolution have taken an historic decision to dismantle most of their overseas networks. At the same time, the idea of forming an anti-terrorist partnership with Iran is gaining ground in the White House. [...]
UNITED STATES IRAN 18/10/2001 Iran and the U.S. Mending Fences For the first time in 22 years, the U.S. administration and the Iranian regime are holding top-level talks. The two have a common aim: get rid of the Taliban's Sunni regime in Afghanistan and install a new government in Baghdad. [...]
IRAN 04/10/2001 Tehran’s Influence Set to Grow with Crisis All the diplomatic information being rounded up in Arab capitals, [...]
IRAN 19/07/2001 Tehran Loses Key Arms Figure Iran’s religious leadership could view the death of Ali Mahmoudi Mimand in mysterious circumstances as tantamount to a declaration of [...]
IRAN ISRAEL 07/06/2001 Tehran Linked to Tel Aviv Bomb Attack According to sources close to Islamist circles in Beirut and Tehran, the suicide bomb attack by Hamas in Tel Aviv [...]
IRAN 07/06/2001 Ali Shamkhani A number of observers are still wondering about the reasons that led admiral Ali Shakhani, Iran’s defense minister, to run [...]
UNITED STATES IRAQ 22/02/2001 Who Will Overthrow Saddam Hussein? A tight endgame is being played out in London, Washington and Paris at present to plan the overthrow of Iraq’s [...]