Musings of a modern guy

For a number of years now, Lebanon has been suffering the impact of civil war. In the 80’s, there was a wide-spread war that had turned Beirut into a shell town, although the current war is a different war. This is a fight for power between the various neighboring powers seeking to get their influence […]

The reformists had their day under former President Khatami, but his administration led to 2 factors that have totally changed the situation after that, and for the worse. Khatami was the golden boy of the reformers, who wanted to break the stronghold of the clergy over Iranian Government policy and direction. However, over the period […]

In an escalation of the confrontation over its nuclear program, the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made an announcement about Iran’s nuclear program having reached an industrial stage. While this announcement did not clear the air over what exactly being at an industrial stage mean, and with no immediate explanations of what the number of cascading […]

In a sudden development, Iran has released 15 British sailors that were seized by the Iranian navy on March 23rd, while claiming that they were captured in Iranian territorial waters. Both the British and the Iraqis deny this, stating that the capture happened in Iraqi waters.
The tension on this issue was rapidly scaling up. Britain […]

It seems that the hardliners in Iran are currently upping the stakes in its confrontation with the international community. After being slapped with a slightly more restrictive set of sanctions, the Iranians took a major escalation when they captured 15 British sailors at gunpoint, claiming that they had entered Iranian territorial waters.
At a point of […]

Iran is slowly and steadily reaching the status of a pariah in the international community. Already, it had its tentacles in a wide span of terror, from neighbouring Iraq to as far away as Lebanon and Palestine. And there is not much of opposition to its policies in these areas other than from Israel, and […]