Epstein Secrets

ce" but to expand their own influence. In this context, full "alignment" is difficult to achieve. Fahad Nazer is a political analyst at JTG Inc. in Vienna, Virginia. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, CNN, Al Monitor and has been featured by the Carnegie Endowment for Int

that appears under the eye-catching headline, "The Man Who Broke the Middle East." The man in question is not Sykes or Picot or Nasser or Saddam or Khomeini or George W. Bush or Noun al-Maliki, but Barack Obama. I often agree with Elliott, but I could not let this one go by without a response. Don't wor

t respect — they feel the world has not accorded them their due. As Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, told me some years ago in Vienna, "We are a nation with 5000 years of history, the world should not speak to us like animals." The nuclear program is a EFTA_R1_00298513 EFTA018840

onversely, views the world as essentially hostile, and many hardliners argue for a national security policy based on the most atavistic elements of Khomeini's worldview: international institutions and diplomacy are symptoms of an inequitable world, and a farce — self-reliance is the only option. And if

nal Peace Institute (IPI) in 2005. IPI is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank headquartered in New York, with regional offices in Vienna and Manama. IPI is dedicated to the prevention and settlement of conflict. The UN Secretary-General is the honorary chair of the board of the Interna

leaves Iran after months of domestic turmoil. 26 March 1979 Signature of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in the White House. 1 April 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims the Islamic Republic of Iran after a national referendum. 2 April 1979 Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo. February 1980 Israel and Egypt