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RT @blakehounshell: Says it heard? RT @ReutersIran: Iran agency says it heard Rafsanjani and Mashaie barred from vote reut.rs/ZaPqc7
Iran agency says it heard Rafsanjani and Mashaie barred from vote
reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Stringer Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani casts his ballot in a parliamentary election in Tehran March 2, 2012. If true, the exclusion of Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a former chief of staff to Ahmadinejad detested by the clerical establishment, would leave the presidential race dominated by hardline conservatives close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
However: "Their portrayal of the (Iran) as a prudent power in its forpol decisions is a needed antidote to ... 'the irrationality myth'”
"It often seems in these pages that Flynt and Hillary Leverett have drunk the Islamic Republic’s Kool-Aid to the last drop." via @nybooks
"The eerie effort to whitewash the Islamic Republic in Going to Tehran...would be comical if it did not stray close to obscenity."
The opening @nybooks takedown of the Leverett's "Going to Tehran" is so, so brutal: bit.ly/10RT5qE
Ruthless Iran: Can a Deal Be Made?
nybooks.com — Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett are unusual among former staffers of the CIA, the State Department, and the National Security Council in their deep affection for the Islamic Republic of Iran. This attraction, which knows few bounds, finds its apotheosis in Going to Tehran. Their stated goal is "the most objective analysis of Iranian politics."
Really stunning RT @joshuafoust My new favorite site: okcupidjuggalos.tumblr.com
RT "@tracey_shelton: @globalpost Alawite protesters for solidarity w/Sunni Turks to avoid sectarian bloodshed #Syria twitpic.com/cs5iwu"
Protesters, largely Alawite, called for solidarity with Sunni... on Twitpic
twitpic.com — Protesters, largely Alawite, called for solidarity with Sunni Turks to avoid secretion bloodshed like #Syria.
RT @loughrichard: Deja Vu. Congolese army, #M23 rebels clash for a second day near #Goma reut.rs/11UggHg via @ReutersWorld @jonnyhog…
Congolese army, rebels clash for a second day near Goma
reuters.com — Government forces and the M23 insurgents exchanged heavy weapons fire from early on Tuesday, with both sides reporting an unspecified number of dead and accusing the other of starting the clashes. "The M23 tried to overrun our positions and we're in the process of pushing them back," army spokesman Colonel Olivier Hamuli told Reuters.
RT @Melaniegouby: Fighting since this morning in Mutaho (Nth east of Goma) Army opened 2nd front 1hr ago in Kanyarushinya (straight Nth) to…
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