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The American Conservative
April 26, 2018
Then everything changed in 1979 when Deng secured an agreement with President Jimmy Carter that covered his security needs (no one seemed worried China had nukes), diplomatically papered over long-simmering .... Fast-track denuclearization has its history, too, in the failures in Libya and Iraq.
71 Republic
April 23, 2018
It didn't matter that 11 of the 15 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia (and that none of the hijackers were Iraqi). .... The late Christopher Hitchens, a surprising proponent of the invasion, detailed just how terrifying Saddam's regime was in his narration of video footage from the Ba'ath led coup in 1979.
Cato Institute (blog)
April 18, 2018
He participated in firearms training in the expectation of going to fight in Iraq and offered to support the group financially or send money to Iraqi insurgents. In February ..... Waad Ramadan Alwan was born in Iraq in 1979 and immigrated to Kentucky as a refugee in April 2009 at the age of 30. In 2009, the FBIÃâà...
gulfnews.com
April 4, 2018
The women who inspired this research and feature prominently in the work include Balkis Sharara, wife of celebrated Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji who in ... Just two days after Corbusier's design for a sports complex was approved, there was a coup in Iraq and the master plans for the city were revised by theÃâà...
gulfnews.com
April 4, 2018
The women who inspired this research and feature prominently in the work include Balkis Sharara, wife of celebrated Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji who in ... Just two days after Corbusier's design for a sports complex was approved, there was a coup in Iraq and the master plans for the city were revised by theÃâà...
FOX31 Denver
April 3, 2018
November 13, 1970 – Minister of Defense Hafez al-Assad stages a bloodless coup. 1976-2005 – Approximately 17,000 Syrian troops are stationed in neighboring Lebanon. 1979-present – Syria appears on the US State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. June 10, 2000 – Hafez al-Assad dies.
Center for Research on Globalization
April 1, 2018
The MEK's greatest intelligence coup was the provision of intelligence in 2002 that led to the discovery of a secret site in Iran for enriching uranium. ... During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, the group praised the decision to take America hostages and Elaine Sciolino reported that while group leaders publiclyÃâà...
Liberation
April 1, 2018
The immediate context at that time of the open split in the ruling class was the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the 1978 socialist revolution/coup in .... At the same time, the U.S. having overthrown the government in Iraq and Libya in 2003 and 2011, was certain that it would be able to do the same in Syria.
Middle East Forum
March 31, 2018
In an address to a prominent British think tank, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently argued that before establishing a Palestinian state, it would be necessary to internalize what had happened in the broader Middle East during the past few years—a reference to the collapsing regional orderÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
March 30, 2018
Before the 1979 revolution—before religious clerics took control of the country—Iran's capital, Tehran, was a cosmopolitan city that glittered with Western ... since 1953, when democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was ousted in a coup organized by the United States and Britain.
Stanford University News
March 30, 2018
This treasure trove of insights into recent Iraqi history includes more than 10 million digitized page images and 1,500 video files collected from Iraq's Ba'ath headquarters and other sources. Housed in the Hoover's ... Hussein, who played a key role in that coup, seized total control in 1979. Over time, as theÃâà...
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
March 27, 2018
THE Mullah regime diverted the attention of its people from miserable internal conditions when Khomeini's coup against Shah succeeded in 1979, in addition to physical extermination among supporters of the new regime and their opponents. This was done by launching terrorist cells in Iraq and the GulfÃâà...
Rudaw
March 22, 2018
Bolton, 69, has advocated for regime change in Iran, supported George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, criticized Turkey after the failed coup, and has supported Kurds' "legitimate aspirations." ... "America's declared policy should be ending Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution before its 40th anniversary," he wrote.
The Intercept
March 21, 2018
Qasim and his allies created a structure for the Iraqi presidency where power will be shared by representatives of the three largest groups in Iraq: the Shia, ... JS: When the Islamic Revolution of Iran happened in 1979, the Iran-Iraq War soon followed, and would kill hundreds of thousands of people — someÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
March 17, 2018
In other words, Operation Decisive Storm was not an isolated move disconnected from the rest of the larger anti-Iranian campaign in place since 1979, the ... the best illustration of the Iranian regime's deep hatred for Saudi Arabia is Juhayman al-Otaibi's failed coup at Mecca's holy mosque in the fall of 1979.
The Cipher Brief
March 5, 2018
Former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin signed a peace treaty in September 1979 at Camp David. ... it once controlled in Syria and Iraq, fleeing militants may seek refuge in the Sinai, and the group's leaders may look to further prop up its Sinai branch byÃâà...
KTVQ Billings News
March 5, 2018
July 17, 1968 - In a coup, Major General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr of the Baath party becomes Iraq's new president. Hussein ... 1979 - In response to the Ayatollah's call for the overthrow of the Baathist regime, comprised mostly of Sunni Muslims, President Hussein expels 40,000 Shiite Muslims. Hussein alsoÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 4, 2018
... Israel after 1979), the invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq (fully sponsored by the US Administration of R. Reagan in the war against Iran in the 1980s) became the highest priority of Washington's foreign policy of establishing a global empire. The Pentagon calculated that a new Iraqi colonial regime wouldÃâà...
PRESSTV
March 3, 2018
In 1979, Sadat signed the Camp David Accords, making Egypt the first Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel. ... In an unprecedented symbolic move of support for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Mubarak even sent a force of 35,000 Egyptians to Saudi Arabia to defend them from Iraq's aggression. In returnÃâà...
Toronto Star
March 2, 2018
In 1953, Iran's secular, democratic government, led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, was overthrown in a coup funded and organized by the CIA and Britain's intelligence service, known as M16. That led to the return of the Shah of Iran, and his despotic regime, which was finally toppled in 1979Ãâà...
Middle East Forum
March 1, 2018
Prior to the rise of the Iranian Islamic Republic in February 1979 and the outbreak of the Iraq-Iran war in September 1980, the small Gulf states determinedly resisted ... In March 1991, during the military campaign to expel the Iraqi army from Kuwait, Egypt and Syria signed the Damascus Declaration with the GCC states toÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 1, 2018
Barzani, also known as Mulla Mustafa, died on March 1, 1979, in Washington DC during surgery for lung cancer. ... negotiations failed with Baghdad, Barzani led an armed struggle known as the Aylul Revolution against Iraqi forces that resulted in the March 11 Agreement in 1970, between Iraq and Kurdish representatives.
Arab News
February 23, 2018
The new rulers were a group of young officers led by Qaddafi who, copying earlier Arab military coups, formed a Revolutionary Command Council before the ... realistic pragmatism based on common interests, built institutions that have managed to limit the damage, dangers and threats from post-1979 Iran.
KTVQ Billings News
February 23, 2018
1949-1958 - A series of coups leads to instability in the country. February 1, 1958 - Syria and Egypt merge, creating the United Arab Republic. September 28, 1961 - Syria secedes from the United Arab Republic. 1967 - Syria loses the Golan Heights to Israel during the Six Day War. November 13, 1970Ãâà...
FRONTLINE
February 20, 2018
This was during the Iran-Iraq War, the early-going. The Iranians blew up the Iraqi embassy, so it shouldn't have taken a lot for us to connect dots that would suggest if they would do that to the Iraqis, they would do it to us. And I was as oblivious as anyone else. But it is an interesting evolution and a caseÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 18, 2018
But more important, with the region's second largest oil deposits in Iraq , what is the US really doing there on the world oil market and its efforts to control or break OPEC? One thing is sure, and the oil section of the paper tiger part of this essay speaks to this issue: Iraqi oil is again being priced in US dollarsÃâà...
Haaretz
February 4, 2018
Since it signed the Camp David accords in 1979, Egypt has been receiving American military assistance and has totally upgraded its inventory from Soviet ... While ISIS has lost nearly all of the vast territory it held only two years ago in Iraq and Syria, where its main forces have been decimated, the group'sÃâà...
Arab News
December 31, 1999
The role of the CIA in the coup against democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, or the support from the US and various Arab governments to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, are among the crucial episodes that are said to decisively influence the Iranian regime'sÃâà...
LobeLog
December 31, 1999
Its rise, which began with the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and accelerated when civil wars erupted in Syria and Yemen, has generated a perception that ... be it supporting Iraqi Kurds when they were threatened by the Islamic State's onslaught in 2014 or condemning the 2016 coup attempt against the TurkishÃâà...
Reason
December 31, 1999
In 1953 the CIA lead a coup against Iran's democratically-elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq. In his place America and Britain helped install a king. That regime came crashing down in 1979, and Iran has been suspicious of America ever since. The United States subsequently supported IraqÃâà...
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
December 31, 1999
THE Mullah regime diverted the attention of its people from miserable internal conditions when Khomeini's coup against Shah succeeded in 1979, in addition to physical extermination among supporters of the new regime and their opponents. This was done by launching terrorist cells in Iraq and the GulfÃâà...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Iran's distrust of the U.S. had its origins in a CIA-backed 1953 coup that ousted democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstalled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, an absolute monarch who supported the West's oil interests in Iran. The Shah's rule came to an end after a 1979Ãâà...
