Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category

The role of Iran beneath the surface of the election in Iraq

On Sunday Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election and according to early reports no party, or blocs of parties, managed to win enough votes to be able to form a single-majority government.
The election process has been hailed as relatively democratic, despite evidence of fraud (tens of thousands of Kurds was according to reports denied [...]

Iran updates: Montazeri passes away, Iran demands WW2 compensation and occupies oil well in Iraq

Read: Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, official media reported on Sunday. He was 87. He had been named to succeed late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran’s supreme leader, but quarreled with him in 1989 over the mass execution of prisoners. Instead, the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, succeeded Khomeini after [...]