Epstein Secrets

f of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate, Salah Nasr, was convinced that the American Embassy in Cairo was behind the jokes going around about Nasser, by then the president. The directorate assigned dozens of offices throughout Egypt to collect the jokes and study their meaning. These were writte

d, perhaps, by Republican critics—has inserted Putin into that pantheon of demonic foes that includes Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. That has obscured past areas of cooperation, and made future cooperation much less likely. Kaiser Wilhelm was no bargain either, and Theodore Roos

ates in Cairo, innovative ideas were in short supply as nostalgia prevailed. There was talk about the villa on Hishmet Street in Zamalek from where Nasser's Egypt supported African liberation movements and leaders. Some participants proposed reverting to older policies and instruments: refusing foreig

02689800 Antele 7. Asharq Alawsat Iran: The fight at the top heats up Amir Taheri 03 June 2011 -- To jump or not to jump? For Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that has become the question. Not long ago, Ahmadinejad was regarded as the most powerful of the five presidents the Islamic Republic in its three

ates in Cairo, innovative ideas were in short supply as nostalgia prevailed. There was talk about the villa on Hishmet Street in Zamalek from where Nasser's Egypt supported African liberation movements and leaders. Some participants proposed reverting to older policies and instruments: refusing foreig

02689843 Antele 7. Asharq Alawsat Iran: The fight at the top heats up Amir Taheri 03 June 2011 -- To jump or not to jump? For Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that has become the question. Not long ago, Ahmadinejad was regarded as the most powerful of the five presidents the Islamic Republic in its three

ates in Cairo, innovative ideas were in short supply as nostalgia prevailed. There was talk about the villa on Hishmet Street in Zamalek from where Nasser's Egypt supported African liberation movements and leaders. Some participants proposed reverting to older policies and instruments: refusing foreig

02690501 Antele 7. Asharq Alawsat Iran: The fight at the top heats up Amir Taheri 03 June 2011 -- To jump or not to jump? For Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that has become the question. Not long ago, Ahmadinejad was regarded as the most powerful of the five presidents the Islamic Republic in its three

inistration regarded Egypt's new leaders as potentially important allies in confronting the Soviet Union. The U.S. embassy in Cairo cultivated both Nasser and Muhammad Naguib, who had been the Free Officers' front man. At the same time, Washington began helping Cairo develop its own clandestine intel

among them—and undermines important Western foreign-policy interests. This September, New York will be forced once again to host Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will undoubtedly use his speech before the U.N. General Assembly to spew anti- U.S. and anti-Semitic rhetoric. It is time for individual countr

about that outcome. The Israelis are always opposed to the rising regional force. When that was Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, they focused on Nasser. When it was al Qaeda and its sympathizers, they focused on al Qaeda. When it was Iran, they focused on Tehran. But simple opposition to a regiona

fling of Iran's long-standing and poisonous anti-Zionism. Perhaps Mr. Ban entertains a hope that he can single-handedly persuade Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to end their quest for nuclear weapons. That assumes that the United Nations leader has more clout than

ates in Cairo, innovative ideas were in short supply as nostalgia prevailed. There was talk about the villa on Hishmet Street in Zamalek from where Nasser's Egypt supported African liberation movements and leaders. Some participants proposed reverting to older policies and instruments: refusing foreig

00584789 AnICIC 7. Asharq Alawsat Iran: The fight at the top heats up Amir Taheri 03 June 2011 -- To jump or not to jump? For Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that has become the question. Not long ago, Ahmadinejad was regarded as the most powerful of the five presidents the Islamic Republic in its three