Middle East Focus: Tag Archive for Iran

Jalili and al-Sistani in Najaf, Passion Plays and the Bush ‘Ardha in Riyadh……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/29/2012 6:31 AM

Nuclear Iran: the Return of Shahram Amiri…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/28/2012 12:04 PM

In Baghdad: Iranians Reject Demands Carried by Israeli Surrogates………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/24/2012 12:34 PM

UN and the Arab League on Bahrain and Syria: Nabil Elaraby El-Saudi……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/22/2012 8:46 AM

What Bahrain Wants from Iran and Saudi Arabia........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/21/2012 6:33 AM

The GCC as a NATO of the Persian Gulf?.........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/20/2012 1:08 PM

The Problem with Syria...............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/20/2012 9:52 AM

Ahmadinejad to Seek Gold in London, about Manhattan and Peoria and a Holy Goat……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/19/2012 10:00 AM

Ambassador Motormouth: U.S. Plans to Attack Iran and Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/18/2012 7:53 AM

Hosni Who? The New Old Saudi Influence in Egypt: “Are There Any Shi’as in Here?”..............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/17/2012 9:55 AM

More Iranian Delusions on Middle Aged Revolutions………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/16/2012 10:22 PM

Dhahi Khalfan on Leash: from the Gulf to Bismarck to North Dakota………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/16/2012 11:53 AM

The Next Bahrain: U.S. Fifth Fleet as another Occupation Force?……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/16/2012 8:03 AM

Iraq: Ali Sistani’s Successor, Iranian Mullahs, and the Saudi King in Bahrain………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/12/2012 10:18 PM

Cool Ahamadinejad: the Return to Alternative Rock, Iranian GOP……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/11/2012 10:09 AM

Ahamadinejad: the Return to Alternative Rock, Iranian GOP……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/11/2012 10:09 AM

History: al-Nahayan Take Aim at al-Afghani and Mohammed Abdu and British Intelligence and the Grinch……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/11/2012 9:07 AM

Power and Risks of the Political Cartoon: Humorless Iranians, Humorless Arab Despots……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/11/2012 7:27 AM

Netanyahu Raises Chutzpah to a New Level: Hiroshima Mon Amour…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/9/2012 2:16 PM

Iranian Rain in Spain: Oil Boycotts and Oil Deals, Beauty Queens…....

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/9/2012 6:17 AM

America and a Song of Persepolis: A New Tunisian Hypocrisy on Freedom………………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/9/2012 5:59 AM

Not Again! New Iranian Plot in Yemen, Plot against Lobbyists and their Johns.........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/8/2012 5:05 PM

Views of Occupied Bahrain: Ile du Diable, Sycophant Island, Mercenary Island………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/7/2012 12:05 PM

Syrian Bedfellows: Islamists with a Sorbonne Mask, a Race of Unsavory Alternatives……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/7/2012 7:05 AM

History: Mujahideen Khalq, Safavi Azerbaijan, Safawi Baathists, Wahhabis, and Emirates………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/3/2012 9:19 AM

Iran’s Space Program: "Who" Will they Send into the Thermosphere?.............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/2/2012 10:36 AM

Hormuz: Controversial Islands in the Gulf………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 5/2/2012 8:55 AM

A Gift of the Mullah-Net: Iranians and the Internet, Fools who Never Learn…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/30/2012 7:24 AM

Naked Netanyahu with Long Teeth: Israel Divided about Iran, America and the Salafis………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/28/2012 9:58 AM

Shameful Act in Iran: Former Foreign Minister Ebrahim Yazdi Ordered to Prison……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/27/2012 8:05 AM | Add Comment

Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Join Turkish Exercises in NATO Territory?………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/27/2012 7:47 AM | Add Comment

Bob Dylan's Hard Rain: How Obama Misrepresented Iran, How Carter Lusted in Poland.......

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/27/2012 7:13 AM | Add Comment

Israel’s Shia Ally: Penetrating Russian and Iranian Spheres……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/26/2012 1:48 PM | Add Comment

Obama to Sanction Saudi Arabia, UAE, GCC States, and PA, but The Thrill is Gone………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/23/2012 9:09 AM | Add Comment

Drill Baby Drill: OPEC Quotas, Iranian-Saudi Oil Rivalry, and the Obama Blockade……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/19/2012 9:49 AM | Add Comment

Iran Minister: Mullah-Net will not Replace the Internet………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/19/2012 6:46 AM | Add Comment

Plan B? Western Sanctions Tighten, Iran Launches Huge New Oil Tankers……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/18/2012 10:41 AM | Add Comment

Strait of Hormuz: a Visit to an Island for Lease, Liberation of Iran……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/17/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Strait of Hormuz: a Visit to an Island for Lease, Liberation of Iran……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/17/2012 8:58 AM | Add Comment

Shirin Ebadi on Human Rights in Iran, Exile……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/17/2012 8:10 AM | Add Comment

America, Asses of Evil, and Bush’s Old Saudi Policy Guru……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/17/2012 7:36 AM | Add Comment

Blond Turks, Iranian Issues, and the New European Maginot: Ils ne Passeront Pas………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/17/2012 6:26 AM | Add Comment

Obama Painted into a Corner on Iran: Why Hillary Clinton Should Leave State…..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/16/2012 12:02 PM | Add Comment

Appointment in Baghdad: Percentages of U-235, Netanyahu the Most Predictable………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/16/2012 7:12 AM | Add Comment

Israel Sets the Conditions for any Western Deal with Iran………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/15/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Lavrov and a Russian-Iranian Strategy in Syria………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/15/2012 7:51 AM | Add Comment

An Iranian Nuclear Message to the Wrong Ears……………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/13/2012 11:41 AM | Add Comment

The Ceasefire that Nobody Wants: Next for Syria.............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/12/2012 12:23 PM | Add Comment

Tehran as Pyongyang? Move Over Internet, Here Comes Mullah-Net………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/10/2012 9:32 AM | Add Comment

Istanbul Nuclear Talks will Fail: Real Stick but no Carrots…………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/10/2012 9:13 AM | Add Comment

Lieberman and the Mufti and Nuclear Inspections.....

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/9/2012 1:56 PM | Add Comment

Obama-Clinton Foreign Policy: Israeli Dog Wagging Two Tails…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/8/2012 8:50 AM | Add Comment

The Western War with Iran: Did it start in 2005 or in 2004?..............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/7/2012 12:37 PM | Add Comment

Silencing Günter Grass: Was gesagt werden muss ……………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/6/2012 11:01 AM | Add Comment

Larijani on Iran and Turkey: Friends of Syria, Bribers of Israel………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/6/2012 7:43 AM | Add Comment

A Royalist Islamic Republic of Iran?............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/5/2012 8:46 AM | Add Comment

Nuclear Musical Chairs in Istanbul or Baghdad or Beijing……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/5/2012 8:26 AM | Add Comment

Wily Coyote: Saudi Arabia and the Sharia-Based Salafi Nuclear Bomb………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/2/2012 8:49 AM | Add Comment

New Netanyahu Policy on Iran and Yukiya Amano and Horse Apples: Can't We All get Along?..........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/1/2012 12:12 PM | Add Comment

Iranian Leadership Reform Election Laws: Supreme Leader to be Elected......

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 4/1/2012 8:28 AM | Add Comment

Fact or Bait: Mossad to Stop Terrorist Operations Inside Iran?..............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/31/2012 9:23 PM | Add Comment

Blitz Ghazwa: Clinton to Dissuade Saudi King from Launching Iran War?................

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/31/2012 11:01 AM | Add Comment

Repression in Iran: (Not) a Film of Jafar Panahi………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/31/2012 9:12 AM | Add Comment

More on Azerbaijan: the Assad Clan of the Caspian………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/30/2012 9:43 AM | Add Comment

Azerbaijan and Israel and Iran and the Neighborhood…………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/30/2012 7:38 AM | Add Comment

Israeli Intelligence Feeding the IAEA……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/29/2012 12:20 PM | Add Comment

Honest Netanyahu in 2009: “Iran has Two Nukes on Missiles Ready to go”……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/29/2012 9:56 AM | Add Comment

Mamas and Papas in Dushanbe: Iran with Friends, a Hug from Susan Rice……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/26/2012 12:39 PM | Add Comment

Suicidal Iranians: Another Dastardly Terror Plot in the Suez Canal……....

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/26/2012 8:49 AM | Add Comment

The Usual Suspects: Hezbollah and Hamas in Yemen and Casablanca………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/25/2012 10:05 AM | Add Comment

American-Iranian Tug of War over Iraqi Skies and Syria………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/25/2012 8:18 AM | Add Comment

Tars Tarkas of Arabia: From Revolutionary Spring to Reactionary Sectarianism ……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/24/2012 10:44 AM | Add Comment

New Iranian Terror Plot Uncovered by, You Guessed it, NYPD………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/23/2012 1:26 PM | Add Comment

Cyber Espionage: is Iran Catching up with the West?...............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/22/2012 7:22 AM | Add Comment

Gulf War Games: Happy Nowruz, Happy Eid, Happy Human Rights, Happy All Options…....

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/21/2012 7:18 AM | Add Comment

Who Would Have Thunk it! Iranian Mullahs Quoting Little Satan and Big Satan for Alibi......

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/20/2012 7:02 AM | Add Comment

Syrian Air Defenses, Hezbollah Air Defenses...............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/19/2012 10:48 AM | Add Comment

Meshugenner American Evangelicals and the Rapture of Israel………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/19/2012 10:34 AM | Add Comment

Mutual Hypocrisy: Britain Bans “Press TV”, Iran Blocks “UK for Iranians” Site ………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/19/2012 6:59 AM | Add Comment

Iran and Pakistan and the Vanished Arabists of America………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/18/2012 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Kurds of Syria and Iraq: Victims of Baathist Racism and Chauvinism……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/17/2012 10:58 AM | Add Comment

Hamas Goes Shopping: from Iran to the GCC and back to Iran (and maybe Syria)……………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/16/2012 9:42 AM | Add Comment

New International Band: “Barack Obama and the Drones”………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/16/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

Iran in Yemen and Syria: Quds Force vs. Qat Force, Plot in DC with Mexicans and Islamic Heritage Revival Society…...

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/15/2012 9:56 AM | Add Comment

Building the Case for War: One More Questionable Brick………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/15/2012 7:36 AM | Add Comment

Iranian Anomaly: “Hitler” and “Dictator” Facing Impeachment in Parliament…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/14/2012 8:44 AM | Add Comment

Gulf War and Peace: Waiting for “Bibi and the Likuds”…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/13/2012 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Can Bashar al-Assad Survive in Syria?...........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/11/2012 12:46 PM | Add Comment

Nuclear Hubris: Netanyahu Becoming Repetitious and Boring on Iran.........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/9/2012 10:53 AM | Add Comment

Persian Purim: Netanyahu Evokes Esther and Haman, about Cyrus and Babylon……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/8/2012 1:13 PM | Add Comment

Sigheh (Mut’ah) and Misyar: Iran’s Hookup Marriage, Gulf’s Hookup Marriage………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/8/2012 9:57 AM | Add Comment

A Massacre of Journalists in Iran, Ayatollah and King at the Watergate……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/8/2012 7:57 AM | Add Comment

Of Iranian Mullahs, Saudi Princes, the Old Ikhwan, and Walled Cities on the Gulf.....

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/7/2012 10:18 AM | Add Comment

Brainwashing America: the Eternal Bogeyman under the Bed, of AIPAC and 9/11………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/5/2012 8:10 AM | Add Comment

Cocky Mr. Netanyahu Goes to Washington, Blackmails Mr. Obama…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/5/2012 6:16 AM | Add Comment

Arab Voters vs. the American Political Class: Deep Mutual Contempt…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/4/2012 8:50 AM | Add Comment

Petroleum Chat: from Tehran through Baghdad to Riyadh and Caracas…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/3/2012 12:50 PM | Add Comment

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