Signals that military action against Iran is a real danger have been multiplying over the past twelve months. Faced with external military intervention and internal repression, Arash Falasiri asks what course remains open to the Iranian people.
V stredu 2.novembra sa v Istanbule konala medzinárodná konferencia, na ktorej sa zúčastnili predstavitelia vyše 20-tich krajín, aby spoločne prediskutovali a dohodli sa na budúcom spoločnom postupe vo vojne zmietanom Afganistane. Konferencia sa konala v tento deň aj pre pripomenutie 10-ročného výročia „víťazstva nad Talibanom“.
In 2001 the territory of Afghanistan was the base and training ground for Al-Qaeda militants recently expelled from North Africa. The ruling Taliban movement offered safe haven for the organization and its leadership including Osama bin Laden1. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington eyes of the U.S. turned to Afghanistan in search for organizers of the attack.
Události na libyjské půdě zcela zastínily syrské národní povstání, které bylo rovněž z důvodu aktuálního dění na izraelsko-palestinské scéně odsunuto na druhou kolej; nutno říci, že však zcela nezaslouženě, ba naopak…
For the junta, the transition is not and maybe should never be a complete rupture with the old system, inevitably at their expense and a threat to their entrenched economic and social privileges.