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day, things look different. Tehran is full of rumors that, deeply depressed, Ahmadinejad may be thinking of stepping down. The media controlled by Khamenei maintain a daily barrage of attacks against the president. The other day, the newspaper Kayhan ran this headline: "Ahmadinejad on Way to Anathema

ry- General Amr Moussa was leaving his post to contest the Egyptian presidency. After some hesitation, Egypt withdrew its initial candidate for the Arab League position and forwarded the name of a prominent politician, Mustafa El-Feki. When this nomination stumbled in the face of Qatari competition, it wa

day, things look different. Tehran is full of rumors that, deeply depressed, Ahmadinejad may be thinking of stepping down. The media controlled by Khamenei maintain a daily barrage of attacks against the president. The other day, the newspaper Kayhan ran this headline: "Ahmadinejad on Way to Anathema

ry- General Amr Moussa was leaving his post to contest the Egyptian presidency. After some hesitation, Egypt withdrew its initial candidate for the Arab League position and forwarded the name of a prominent politician, Mustafa El-Feki. When this nomination stumbled in the face of Qatari competition, it wa

gime's survival than the nuclear programme. The Islamic regime in Iran has not and will not live on its nuclear programme. It lives on its economy. Khamenei is worried that if he doesn't negotiate, the west will find it easier to justify isolating his country. This, in turn, will make it easier to gain

atmosphere conducive to negotiation and agreement, including by intensifying efforts to advance coexistence and normalization of relations between Arab League members and Israel. A creative and courageous approach to leveraging the Palestinian initiative will not end the conflict. But it could make it far

day, things look different. Tehran is full of rumors that, deeply depressed, Ahmadinejad may be thinking of stepping down. The media controlled by Khamenei maintain a daily barrage of attacks against the president. The other day, the newspaper Kayhan ran this headline: "Ahmadinejad on Way to Anathema

ry- General Amr Moussa was leaving his post to contest the Egyptian presidency. After some hesitation, Egypt withdrew its initial candidate for the Arab League position and forwarded the name of a prominent politician, Mustafa El-Feki. When this nomination stumbled in the face of Qatari competition, it wa

yahu and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, probably know how close the world stands today to a new war. The Israeli prime minister and Khamenei have "one thing in common," says Walther Stiitzle, a former state secretary in Germany's Federal Defense Ministry: "They enjoy conflict. If Israel

did not stop President Clinton from intervening in Kosovo, and it need not stop it in Syria, particularly if we can win the backing of NATO and the Arab League. Max Boot is a contributing editor to Opinion, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the forthcoming "Invisible Ar

day, things look different. Tehran is full of rumors that, deeply depressed, Ahmadinejad may be thinking of stepping down. The media controlled by Khamenei maintain a daily barrage of attacks against the president. The other day, the newspaper Kayhan ran this headline: "Ahmadinejad on Way to Anathema

ry- General Amr Moussa was leaving his post to contest the Egyptian presidency. After some hesitation, Egypt withdrew its initial candidate for the Arab League position and forwarded the name of a prominent politician, Mustafa El-Feki. When this nomination stumbled in the face of Qatari competition, it wa

hment." Iran's hardline rulers have put a positive spin on the Arab Spring, saying it will spell the end of U.S.-backed governments in the region. Khamenei has called it the "Islamic Awakening" and said it was inspired by Iran's 1979 revolution, which replaced the U.S-backed Shah with a Muslim theocrac

l. Five of the leading six candidates for president are responsible secular centrists; the runaway favorite, so far, is former foreign minister and Arab League general secretary Amr Moussa. Moussa may be a recent convert to liberal democracy, and he is known for striking populist poses against Israel. But