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ont runners for these positions are considered dovish on the =ssue. In the broader context of the region, unpredictability is the order of the =ay. Tunisia and Egypt seems to be roughly split in two with regimes leanin= to conservative Islam on one side and moderate, secular and liberals on t=e other. I
ugees and=displaced, a new Great Game of geostrategic importance is being played out= On the one side there is a regional axis of allies going from Teheran throu=h Baghdad to Damascus and to Hezbollah in Lebanon, with the diplomatic pro=ection of Moscow and Beijing. On the other side there is a block of
excluded from decision-making. Despite the new freedoms championed by the revolutionaries, women continue to be regarded as subordinate to men. In Tunisia, a mass protest called for all women to be veiled, which led to unveiled female professors being hounded off campuses. Mobs shouted at Tunisian wom
unding of the state. Even as Netanyahu and his Defense Minister, Ehud EFTA00713352 Barak, routinely speak of an imminent "existential threat" from Teheran, comparable to that of the Nazis in 1939, a growing number of leading intelligence and military officials, active and retired, have made plain the
by Arab League-UN mediator Kofi Annan on June 7. The venue, timing, and participants are currently under discussion. Trends in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen: • On June 10, opposition groups in Iraq lacked the necessary 163 votes to pass a no confidence motion to oust Prime Minister Nuri al-Ma
en the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran on June 8 were also unsuccessful, as Iran did not grant access to a military site south of Teheran that inspectors believe was used in tests related to Iran's nuclear program. The IAEA expressed concern over the Iranian demolition of buildings in
Entities connected to both Tunisia and Teheran

Barack Obama
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Middle East
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Bahrain
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
al-Qaeda
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