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• Gaza LiveBlog: Israel Forces Attack Freedom Flotilla, Up to 19 Killed (31 May)
• Gaza Flotilla Video: Questions from Last Reports Before Attack (Turkish TV & Al Jazeera)
• UPDATED: Gaza Flotilla Attack: Israel Line "We Are Sorry but It Was a Life-Threatening Situation!"
• Gaza Video: "If You're Watching This, The Flotilla Has Been Attacked"
• The Latest from Iran (31 May): Mousavi & Karroubi Call for 12 June Demo
• Iran Document: Rahnavard "Honour Women, Release Political Prisoners"
• Gaza LiveFeed: Israel Warships Attack "Freedom Flotilla"
• Disqus Update: Please Sign Up!
• UPDATED Gaza Latest & Video: The "Freedom Flotilla" Sails
• The Latest from Iran (30 May): Pressure, Counter-Pressure, & a Letter from Majid Tavakoli
• How US Handles Afghanistan's Civilian Deaths: Blame the Button-Pushers
• Iran Report: The Fight on the Cultural Front (Erdbrink)
• The Latest from Iran (29 May): Statements for 22 Khordad/12 June
• Iran Document: Mousavi "Greens Will Not be Stopped by Arrests, Prisons, or Killing"
• Iran: A Poem for Executed Teacher Farzad Kamangar
• Gaza Latest: Israel Prepares Confrontation with "Freedom Flotilla"
• Matlin's America: So What is This "Special Relationship" with Britain?
• The Latest from Iran (28 May): A Pause in Discussion?
• Afghanistan Correction: US Military "Marjah NOT a Bleeding Ulcer"
• Friends or Obstacles?: Iran, Human Rights, & US "Concern"
• US Politics: The Tea Party and the Arizona BUYcott (Haddigan)
• The Latest from Iran (27 May): Cooperation and Feuds
• US Foreign Policy: Full Text of "2010 National Security Strategy"
• UPDATED Iran: Full Text of Karroubi Interview "Aligning the Green Movement"
• Afghanistan Analysis: The Taliban Return to Marjah (Carlstrom)
• Iran Analysis: When Allies Co-ordinate (Mousavi & Karroubi)
• Iran Analysis: When Allies Fight (Tehran and Moscow)
• Turkey Analysis: Is the Opposition Party Changing?
• Iran Document: Mousavi "On the Importance of Political Parties" (26 May)
• The Latest from Iran (26 May): Panahi Out But 100s Still Imprisoned
• Afghanistan, US Media, and Elections: Marching Orders to Protect the War (Mull)
• Israel: "The Ideal State: A Dream-Country Without Criticism" (Levy)
• Turkey Inside Line: A Political Warning from Business; Kurdish Connections
• Turkey's Diplomatic Dance: The Nuclear Two-Step Between Iran & the US (Yenidunya)
• Middle East Inside Line: Israeli Military Drills & Gestures, Palestinian Boycott of Goods, Syria's Assad v. US Congress
• Middle East/Iran (& Beyond) Revealed: US to Expand Covert Activities (Mazzetti)
• The Latest from Iran (25 May): Panahi Freed; Will There Be a 12 June Protest?
• Middle East/Iran Analysis: How the US Has Lost (Narwani)
• US Politics: The Arizona Immigration Law (Haddigan)
• Iran Analysis: Towards the Final Battle? (Zahra)
• The Latest from Iran (24 May): Rahnavard's Statement, Ahmadinejad Heckled
• Iran Document: The Mousavi-Karroubi Meeting (23 May)
• Latest Iran Video: Ahmadinejad Heckled During Speech (24 May)
• Middle East Inside Line: Israel's Settlements; Syria's Defiance
• Israel-Palestine Analysis: The 2nd Round of Proximity Talks (Yenidunya)
• Israel Revealed: Tel Aviv Offered Nuclear Weapons to South Africa
• The Latest from Iran (23 May): Is This The People's Month?
• Afghanistan: Obama Suspends the Rule of Law (Greenwald)
• Iran Document: Khatami "Khordaad is the Month of the People"(22 May)
• US Foreign Policy Video and Transcript: Obama Speech at West Point (22 May)
• The Latest from Iran (22 May): Karroubi's Letter, University Protests
• Afghanistan and Beyond: The Wicked Ideology of Counter-Insurgency (Mull)
• Iran Nuke Analysis: Reading the US-Turkey Discussions
• US "War on Terror" Math: Guantanamo Shutdown = More Pakistan Drone Strikes
• The Latest from Iran (21 May): Friday Rest?
• US Politics: The Tea Party and the Dangers of a "Leader" (Haddigan)
• Iran Analysis: Four Perspectives on the Uranium-Sanctions Dance
• Afghanistan & Pakistan Analysis: Obama on a Road to Ruin? (Englehardt)
• Turkey Inside Line: It's Not Baykal in Video!; Kilicdaroglu Steps In; A UN "Well Done" to Turkey
• The Latest from Iran (20 May): Back to Business
• Korean Warship Latest: Is This A Crisis? (BBC)
• Iran Document: Simin Behbahani's Poem for the Executed
• Thailand Latest: Curfew Extended, Violence Spreads Across Country (Al Jazeera)
• Thailand Eyewitness: Under Fire in Bangkok (Buncombe)
• Afghanistan-Pakistan Revealed: America's Private Spies
• Iran Videos: Former Diplomat Heidari Reveals the Regime
• US Politics Video: Campainin' in Sweet Home Alabama
• The Latest from Iran (19 May): Fallout
• UPDATED Thailand Latest: Fires and Curfew in Bangkok
• Iran's Uranium: Why Can't the US Take Yes for an Answer? (Parsi)
• Iran's Uranium: Washington "Can't Afford to Look Ridiculous", Makes Ridiculous Move (Emery)
• Iran's Uranium: US Shows a Middle Finger to Tehran...and Turkey and Brazil and... (Gary Sick)
• Iran Document: Iranian Labour Unions "This is Not 1979"
• Politics in America: The Tea Parties & The Religious Right (Haddigan)
• LATEST Iran Urgent: The Deal on Uranium Enrichment (and US Response)
• Iran Analysis: Washington and the Tehran Nuclear Deal (Parsi)
• The Latest from Iran (18 May): Getting Beyond the Uranium Agreement
• Thailand Latest: Protestors Ready for Talks? (Fuller/Mydans)
• Iran Analysis: The Contest at Home Over (and Beyond) the Uranium Agreement (Zahra)
• Middle East Inside Line: IDF Concern over Settlers, Israel's Warning to Europeans, Barak's Tactics, Chomsky on "Stalinist" Israel
• Iran Alert: Filmmaker Firouz Faces Deportation From UK
• Iran Analysis: Assessing the Tehran Nuclear Deal (Gary Sick)
• The Latest from Iran (17 May): Let's Make a Deal (But Not with You, Mousavi)
• Iran Document: Mehdi Karroubi "The Islamic Republic Depends Upon the People"
• Iran Document: Text of Iran-Brazil-Turkey Agreement on Uranium Enrichment
• UPDATED Iran Document: The Prosecutor on the Executions, "Leaders of Sedition" (15 May)
• Thailand Latest: Opposition General Dies, Fresh Fighting (BBC)
• Middle East Inside Line: Proximity Talks Continue; Israel's Lieberman & Palestine; Chomsky Barred
• The Latest from Iran (16 May): Intimidation After the Executions
• Thailand Latest: Curfew and Ultimatum (AP and BBC)
• Middle East Inside Line: Nakba Day/Independence Day; Deterioration in East Jerusalem; Israel's Lieberman "An Imbecile"?
• Afghanistan Analysis: Diplomatically Clinging to Guns and Counterinsurgency (Mull)
• Iran Blackout: Shutting Down the Movies
• Turkey Inside Line: Latest War between Government and Opposition; New Era in Turkish-Greek Relations
• The Latest from Iran (15 May): Executions, Detentions and a Cancellation
• MENA House: Mohammed al Fayed and How Harrods Became Egyptian
• Thailand: The Latest in the Crisis; At Least 16 Dead (Mydans and Szep/Ahuja)
• Iran: Last Words of Executed Alamhouli "For God's Sake, Let Me Hear My Mother's Voice" (Ghazi)
• Middle East Analysis: Russia's Strategy on Israel, Palestine and Beyond
• The Latest from Iran (14 May): The Meaning of the Strike?
• Iran Analysis: The Economic Squeeze and the Real Sanctions Story (Colvin)
• Afghanistan: Obama & Karzai Split Over Talks with Taliban? (Porter)
• UPDATED Iran Special: Executions, Politics, and the Attack on Nazila Fathi and The New York Times
• The Latest from Iran (13 May): Justice, Legitimacy, and a Strike in Kurdistan
• UPDATED Iran Video: Strike in Kurdistan (13 May)
• Afghanistan Analysis: Karzai 2, Obama 1 (Cole)
• Turkey Inside Line: Ankara & Russia Press Israel on Hamas Issue
• Iran Transcript: Mousavi "Do Iranian Mothers Have Rights?" (12 May)
• Iran Document: A Letter from Majid Tavakoli About the Executed (11 May)
• Israel Analysis: The Expansion of Construction in Jerusalem
• The Latest from Iran (12 May): Defending the Indefencible?
• Afghanistan: Revealing the US "Black Site" Prison at Bagram (Fisher)
• Matlin's America: Is the US Constitution Fit for Purpose?
• Iran Update: The Aftermath of the Executions
• The Latest from Iran (11 May): Opposition Surfaces
• Iran Document: Maziar Bahari's Response to His 13-Year (and 74-Lash) Sentence
• UPDATED Iraq Analysis: 100+ Die as The Politics and The Guerrilla War Continue (Cole)
• Afghanistan Analysis: Is the "Kandahar Offensive" Crumbling? (Porter)
• Turkey Inside Line: Opposition Leader Resigns, Turkish-Russian Relations & More
• Iran Special: A Renewal of Protest for 12 June?
• UPDATED Iran Video: Protest Against Ahmadinejad at Shahid Beheshti University (10 May)
• Obama & The Supreme Court: Scott Lucas on BBC World Service
• Latest from Iran (10 May): Will the Executions Matter?
• Middle East Inside Line: First Indirect Israel-Palestine Talks; Israel Warns Iran; West Jerusalem's Economic Win
• Britain's Election: The Final Word So Far (M. Python)
• Iraq: The Politicians, The Clerics, and a Coalition? (Alaaldin)
• Iran Background Video: Protest in Kurdistan Over Political Prisoners (July 2008)
• Middle East Inside Line: Israel-Palestine Indirect Talks; Syrian-Turkey Meeting
• The Latest from Iran (9 May): 5 Iranian Kurds Executed
• Iran: Farzad Kamangar's Last Letter "Is It Possible to Teach and Be Silent?"
• Iran First-Hand: Assessing Life and Opinions in Tehran (Majd)
• Iran, Meet Kafka: The Web of Internet Censorship Catches All (Farokhnia)
• Afghanistan Analysis: Does General McChrystal Have Any Idea of What is Happening? (Mull)
• The Latest from Iran (8 May): Back to the Politics
• Middle East Inside Line: Mitchell's Talks in Palestine; Israel's Official Perception of Peace
• Iran: The Green Movement and "Moral Capital" (Jahanbegloo)
• Afghanistan Report: Losing Hearts and Minds (Mercille)
• Britain's Election on The Morning After: "Who Here Has a Mandate?"
• MENA House: Sinai Liberation Day in Egypt (Baghdady)
• The Latest from Iran (7 May): The Original Post-Election Muddle
• Iran: Ahmadinejad's Chief Aide "Not Too Many People in the Prisons"
• Middle East Inside Line: Preliminary Proximity Talks, "Strategic Advantage" of Israel's Nukes, Fatah-Hamas Tension
• Britain's Election LiveBlog: An Interim Assessment "Hung Parliament"
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Britain's Elections
• The Latest from Iran (6 May): Rattling the Cage
• Mahmoud's Iran Wonderland: Ahmadinejad "I'm in Favour of Protestors"
• UPDATED Iran Follow-Up: Ahmadinejad "Bin Laden Lives in Washington DC!"
• Middle East Inside line: Israel's Nuclear Problem; Syrian Tensions with US & Israel
• Israel-Palestine: The Proximity Talks Starts Silently (Yenidunya)
• Iran Snap Analysis: Ahmadinejad's Nuclear Roadtrip
• The Latest from Iran (5 May): "Protest is Not Provocation"
• Syria: A National Unity Government for More Democracy? (al-Assad)
• New Comments System: Introducing Disqus
• Obama's War on Terror: Pressuring Journalists, Fighting for Secrecy
• A Female Detainee in Iran: "Stripped by the Basiji"
• The Latest from Iran (4 May): Beyond the "Main Event"
• Iran Video and Transcript: Ahmadinejad on Charlie Rose (3 May)
• Iran Document: Mehdi Karroubi "The Movement Has Spread Everywhere"
• Iran: Bin Laden Lives in Tehran Shocker!
• Israel-Palestine Opinion: Discrimination in East Jerusalem (Eldar)
• Israel-Palestine: Proximity Talks to Begin on Wednesday? (Yenidunya)
• Latest Iran Video & Transcripts: Clinton & Ahmadinejad Speeches at UN Nuke Conference (3 May)
• The Latest from Iran (3 May): Mahmoud's Road Show
• Afghanistan Analysis: The Growth of the "Taliban Zone" (Porter)
• Video & Transcript: Hillary Clinton on Meet the Press (2 May)
• Israel-Palestine: Arab League Supports Indirect Talks (Yenidunya)
• The Latest from Iran (2 May): Persistence
• The Times Square Car Bomb: 5 Lessons from Britain (Hewitt)
• Afghanistan Analysis: A Very Bad Six Months (White)
• Iran Analysis: The Scattering of Protest is Still Protest
• Iran Eyewitness: "The Movement Is Still Strong and Vibrant"
• Middle East Analysis: Washington's Latest Stick for an Israel-Palestine Solution
• The Latest from Iran (1 May): May Day and Mayday
• UPDATED Iran Video and Translation: The Mousavi Statement for May Day/Teachers Day (29 April)
• Latest Iran Video: Deterring Protests, "Greeting" Ahmadinejad (1 May)
• Iran: US Filmmakers Demand "Free Jafar Panahi"
• Matlin's America: Life on a Small Stage in the Carolinas
• UPDATED Iran: Tehran, Defender of Rights (Don't Mention Boobquake), Joins UN Commission on Status of Women