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		<title>knowing the right beards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.&#8221; In the case of Iran and the U.S., Sun Tzu&#8217;s prescient advice &#8212; combined with the thorough research of &#8220;your correspondent&#8221; &#8212; suggest that peace might be an easier wager than recent history predicts. With their popularity on the wane, like-minded conservatives in their ranks, and religious ideology on their side, Bush and Ahmadinejad have more in common today than either care to admit&#8230;
They think they have right on their side
Nov 22nd 2007 &#124; TEHRAN, From The Economist print edition
Why the Iranians see themselves in a very different light
IT IS not hard to find examples of the peculiar divergence between how the world looks from Tehran, Iran&#8217;s capital, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>the enemy of my enemy</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/11/16/the-enemy-of-my-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an inhospitable welcome at Columbia University and a defense of Iranian intentions in the halls of the UN, it was up to Charlie Rose to coax a straight answer from the puzzling Persian President and his schizophrenic vacillations between coherence and crusade. Neither Rose nor Ahmadinejad disappoint&#8230;

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		<title>creature comforts</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/11/09/creature-comforts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece in the OpEd section of the Wall Street Journal could be written about any despotic regime in the history of humankind&#8230;except, of course, for the satellite dishes. Regime change rarely trickles from the top down, and when it does, it&#8217;s more like regime swap than any true social progression. In the case of Iran, a country with 70 million people &#8212; the majority of whom are under the age of 30 and two degrees removed from the last major revolution &#8212; the status quo isn&#8217;t all that bad. Those in the best position to pressure the powers that be are still too caught up in their sumptuous Middle Eastern lifestyle to vocalize any meaningful dissent, and that&#8217;s as ...]]></description>
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		<title>breakpoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often referred to as a &#8216;private CIA,&#8217; Stratfor just released an update on their coverage of the escalating violence in Iraq, the threat of another Sunni-Shi&#8217;a Civil War, and the challenge of unbridled Iranian imperialsm. Definitely worth a read if you haven&#8217;t been following the not-so-mainstream news&#8230;

Breakpoint: What went Wrong
By Dr. George Friedman
CEO, Security Consulting Intelligence Agency
On May 23, we published a Geopolitical Intelligence Report titled &#8220;Break Point.&#8221; In that article, we wrote: &#8220;It is now nearly  Memorial Day. The violence in Iraq will surge, but by July 4 there either will  be clear signs that the Sunnis are controlling the insurgency &#8212; or there won&#8217;t.  If they are controlling the insurgency, the United States will begin ...]]></description>
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		<title>no better way</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/05/09/no-better-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Described  as the first direct communication from an Iranian leader to an American  president since 1979, Ahmadinajad’s recent letter to President Bush touched on a  broad array of socio-political matters that strike at the very heart of the  current standoff between Tehran and Washington. Below is an exerpt of that letter &#8212; originally translated from Farsi&#8230;
Mr George Bush, President of the United States of America
For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena &#8212; which are being constantly debated, specially in political forums and amongst university students. Many questions remain unanswered. These have prompted me to discuss some of the contradictions and questions, in the ...]]></description>
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