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těr’ə-rĭz’əm: Why We Struggle to Define the Defining Threat of Our Time

While addressing an international counter-terrorism meeting in Tunis last Thursday (15th), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), spoke about the need for the world to come up with a clear, internationally recognised definition of the term ‘terrorism’. “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”– unattributed Ihsanoglu made a [...]

Attacking Iran: Tragedy or Farce?

According to The Telegraph, Washington is losing patience with British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, accusing him of failing to ‘match his more robust private conversations on Iran with hard-hitting public statements’. Is this simply political self-preservation from a man who has yet to face his electorate, or does Brown know what many of us strongly [...]

Passing the ‘Buck’

Back in June 2003, with its oil exports to Europe already euro-denominated, Dr Mohammed Jaffar Mojarrad, then Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), announced that Iran would be prepared to offer member countries of the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) a two-month settlement period for oil transactions. But there was one caveat: though trades [...]