This article was first published in the Journal of Turkish Weekly. JTW, Tibor Hargitai PM Netanyahu On November 8th Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the rumored details of the deal expected to emerge from the E3/EU+3 (P5+1) meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister and Chief Nuclear Negotiator Javad Zarif in Geneva…
On 14 June 2013, Iran voted Dr. Hassan Rouhani to be the new President of Iran, replacing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rouhani (Rowhani) is said to have been the most moderate of the candidates the Guardian Council allowed to run for office, and the only cleric among them. Will he change Iran? The answer is unclear, but…
I started reading Evgeny Morozov’s book “The Net Delusion” (though my version has an ugly cat on the front cover) yesterday. The first chapter starts off with Iran ‘Twitter Revolution’ in 2009, where Morozov criticises this notion on the grounds that in fact in Iran 1. Ahmadinejad got elected, rendering all the positive news about…
Mohammed El-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis wrote an article, analysing the role of social media in the successful revolution in Egypt and the unsuccessful protests in Iran — unsuccessful in terms of failing to prevent the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, instead of Hossein Mousavi. Egypt had in its recent history a number of attacks on the government of Hosni Mubarak, and other…
Alireza Nader sees the next Presidential elections in Iran in June 2013 to go either of two ways. A further consolidation of power of the Supreme Leader, through effectively preventing the Guardian Council of accepting any candidate which would be tempted to ride his own track. The next President should be very loyal and consult with…
Thinking politics 