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	<title>Welcome to Dr. Mahjoob Zweiri’s</title>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s endless crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s re-election sparked controversy inside and outside Iran. The reformist movement led by Mir-Hussein Mossavi and Mahdi Karroubi had announced that the elections were biased and the conservative forces had intervened in the election process to secure the victory of Ahmadinejad. Such claims opened the doors to criticise the whole process of the elections, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=364</link>
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		<title>Iran and the West, new escalation</title>
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The situation with Iran is changing and growing more complex before our very eyes.A confluence of events happened in the last few days and the situation must be reassessed accordingly.
First, United States President Barack Obama has announced the cancellation of plans by the previous administration to install a missile defence system in eastern Europe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=232</link>
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		<title>When the Arabs lose initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the shocking bombing of the finance and foreign ministries on August 19, the Iraqi government immediately scrambled for an answer to the deadliest bombing to hit Iraq in almost 18 months. Many inside the country pointed to lax security and said it was far too easy for the attackers to drive an explosive-laden truck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=223</link>
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		<title>Is it fear of diplomacy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When President Barack Obama first made it clear that he wanted to engage Iran in dialogue without preconditions, it sent shockwaves through conservative circles in the United States, fuelling criticism and having him labelled, by his critics, as naïve and inexperienced. But did these words actually have an effect in Iran?
Some have begun to float [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=218</link>
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		<title>Between pragmatism and identity in Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The results of the 2009 Iranian presidential election did not only surprise the world, they also surprised the Iranians.
For years, reform forces within Iran have broken their backs in an attempt to gain political power and influence, and it appeared that 2009 would be the year this group would receive the social and political rewards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=209</link>
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		<title>The “Three D’s” in Obama’s Policies: What is Missing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through Obama’s first 100 days in office, the administration has repeatedly called for the “three D’s”; Defense, Development, and Diplomacy, as a framework for implementing U.S. national security strategy. In his Defense efforts, the President has stressed the need to re-deploy American troops to Afghanistan to effectively combat the resurgent Taliban. In the realm of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=204</link>
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		<title>تأملات في نتائج الحرب الإسرائيلية على غزة</title>
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التطورات التي شهدتها الساحة الإقليمية والدولية في عقد الثمانينات والتسعينات من حيث اختفاء لاعبين مثل الاتحاد السوفيتي وظهور لاعب فاعل في القضية الفلسطينية مثل إيران مثلا نقطة عطف هام في التطورات السياسية المرتبطة بالقضية الفلسطينية. و قد رافق ذلك ظهور لاعبين آخرين داخل المشهد الفلسطيني ذو مرجعية إسلامية. إن ظهور تيار سياسي فلسطيني ذو [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=199</link>
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		<title>!قالوها قبلك يا معالي الوزير</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
تصريحات وزير الخارجية البريطاني ديفيد ميليباند حول الحرب على الإرهاب واعترافه الصريح بأنها  &#8221; كانت  خطأ.&#8221; تبدو هامة وجديرة بالتوقف عندها، لا سيما اذا ما أخذنا بعين الاعتبار توقيت هذه التصريحات، وكذلك القضايا التي من شانها أن تثار إذا ما تكررت تلك المقولات حول خطأ هذه الحرب الوهمية التي يعترف أميركيون وأوروبيون أنها حرب طويلة [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=194</link>
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		<title>العلاقات المغربية الإيرانية: إذا سقط المطر فستسيل الأودية</title>
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ليس هناك من مفاجئة تذكر بالنسبة للمتابع للعلاقات الإيرانية العربية بعد ـتأسيس الجمهورية الإسلامية فيما يتعلق بقطع العلاقات الدبلوماسية بين المغرب وإيران، فالأمر  الملفت للانتباه هو استمرار العلاقات بين كثير من الدول العربية وإيران وسط حقول الألغام غير المتناهية وأجواء عدم الثقة بين الطرفين. تعود العلاقة بين المملكة المغربية وإيران إلى أوائل عقد [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=178</link>
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		<title>The Iranian-Moroccan Relations: If it rains, it pours!</title>
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After the establishment of the Islamic Republic, it is not surprising for an observer to Iranian-Arab relations to come across the cutting off of the diplomatic relations between Iran and Morocco. What is most striking is that even amid the endless tension and distrust, the relations between many Arab countries and Iran were in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzweiri.com/?p=174</link>
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