Tag: Iran

  • Iran and the US: Regime Change Not an Option

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    Iran and the US: Regime Change Not an Option

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Anti Iran enthusiasts in the US hope that one day Iran will witness yet another homegrown revolution of its own and get rid of the Mullah (Clergy) enjoying sweeping powers there. A reality check, however, tells entirely a different story and reveals why regime change…

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  • US-Iran Relations Require Re-thinking

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    US-Iran Relations Require Re-thinking

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Popular perception in the lands of Islam regarding the US stance on Iran’s nuclear programme should be very unpalatable to American policy makers who, in their own right, believe they are trying to make the world safer to live. A dominant majority perceives that America’s…

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    Living with Nuclear Iran

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Anti-Iran passion seems to have befogged the Western intelligentsia to such an extent that far fetched and illusionary analogies are drawnbetween the collapse of the soviet empire and the opposition movement in Iran.Over ambitious sphinxes in the West think Iranian opposition iscomparable in many ways…

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  • US and Iran Showdown Disastrous for the World

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    US and Iran Showdown Disastrous for the World

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Encircling Iran by maintaining its military presence in five of the seven countries sharing borders with Iran, the US is already working overtime to neutralize Iran’s nuclear programme with threats or coaxing. Whereas, Israel, all the time, is cajoling US for some tangible action beyond…

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    Mounting US Follies in the Gulf

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Since the fall of Baghdad in 2003 although the US is tied up rather completely bogged down in Iraq , all its regional policies, under the influence of powerful Jewish lobby at home, are Iran specific and anti- regional-peace and stability.The US expects the fluid…

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    Pattern of US-Israel Pressure on Iran

    Syed Javed Hussain

    Israel, through its lobbies in the US is trying to create a diabolical perception in which the US is being blamed for ‘America-Late-Syndrome’ as consistent American pattern for acting late when the world mostly needed it to act urgently on time with dire consequences.According to…

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    Escalating Rhetoric and Actions

    Syed Javed Hussain

    It took about six years for Bush administration to come to terms with realitiesin Korean peninsula and start direct negotiations with North Korea that it had been demanding all along. It took a lot of wrangling as well as adamant nuclear explosion by NK to…

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    Failure of International Diplomacy

    Syed Javed Hussain

    The US has finally succeeded in getting Iran referred to the UNSC for possible sanctions due to unsolved row over its Nuclear Programme, however, it has exposed many a weakness of international diplomacy that has always left much to be desired.The US hegemony in International…

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    Telling Aspects of Sailors’ Row

    Syed Javed Hussain

    British Sailors’ issue has reached its ultimate end, however, it has left many shadows in its wake that need highlighting. Although this had not happened for the first time, yet it was painted as if Iran had committed some felony capturing 15 UK sailors who…

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    Bull in a China Shop

    Syed Javed Hussain

    No one underestimates Washington ‘s immediate ability to deliver ‘shock and awe’ that mostly is time fixed in April-May this year, however, what one doubts is the US ability to deal with post ‘shock and awe’ scenario at regional and global level.Unfortunately protagonists of US…

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