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El gambito iraní en las conversaciones nucleares
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15 May 2012
CEPRID
El ajedrez es un juego fascinante y, además, se deriva del viejo shatranj persa. El gran poeta Hakim Abul-Qasim Firdusi (935-1020/1025, se desconoce la fecha exacta de su muerte pero fue entre esos años) en su obra Shahnama (“El libro de los reyes”) se hace eco del origen indio de este juego, el chaturanga, y explica que fue debido a una polémica sobre el enfrentamiento entre dos hermanos al trono que fue resuelta por un grupo de sabios al reproducir sobre el suelo una batalla entre ellos. Los sabios ordenaron la construcción de estatuillas de madera oscura y marfil representando al rey, su general, dos elefantes (“fil”, en farsi), dos carruajes y dos caballeros junto con sus respectivos soldados. Reprodujeron la batalla y sus variantes, en términos reducidos, y así llegó el juego a Persia, hoy Irán, de la mano de Firdusi.
Firdusi es el gran poeta persa por excelencia. Escribió el Shahnama enteramente en farsi, un hecho crucial para el mantenimiento del idioma ante el empuje del árabe que iba en paralelo con la expansión del islam. Firdusi se islamizó, pero mantuvo su lengua. El Shahnama es una gran epopeya, la gran obra nacional iraní, y le llevó 30 años completarla.
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The myth of an "isolated' Iran
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20 January 2012
These days, with a crisis atmosphere growing in the Persian Gulf, a little history lesson about the United States and Iran might be just what the doctor ordered. Here, then, are a few high- (or low-) lights from their relationship over the last half-century-plus:
Summer 1953: The Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence hatch a plot for a coup that overthrows a democratically elected government in Iran intent on nationalizing that country's oil industry. In its place, they put an autocrat, the young Shah of Iran, and his soon-to-be feared secret police.
He runs the country as his repressive fiefdom for a quarter-century, becoming Washington's "bulwark" in the Persian Gulf - until overthrown in 1979 by a home-grown revolutionary movement, which ushers in the rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the mullahs. While Khomeini & Co were hardly Washington's men, thanks to that 1953 coup they were, in a sense, its own political offspring.
In other words, the fatal decision to overthrow a popular democratic government shaped the Iranian world Washington now loathes, and even then oil was at the bottom of things.
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Turkey seeks steps to facilitate Iran talks
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19 January 2012
Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey was ready to host the talks between Iran and major world powers [Reuters]
Turkey's foreign minister has pushed for immediate talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, saying both Iran and major world powers were willing to resume negotiations.
"It is important that the hurdles in front of the talks are removed. [...] We have to understand that both parties are willing to resume negotiations," Ahmet Davutoglu said at a joint news conference with Iran's foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday.
Davutoglu said that only the time and place for the talks remained to be settled. He said Turkey was ready to host and "make any other kind of contribution" to talks between Iran and six countries leading negotiations - the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.
"What is important is for these negotiations to start immediately and for the tensions to be reduced," Davutoglu said.
Salehi, who is ending a two-day visit to Turkey, said the six powers should enter talks without "excuses".
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Iran 'open to nuclear talks'
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13 January 2012
Turkey's president (R) and Iran's parliament speaker reassured support for talks after a meeting in Ankara [Reuters]
Iran's parliamentary speaker has said that he believes that the standoff over his country's nuclear programme can be solved through serious talks.
Ali Larijani told a news conference after meeting Turkish leaders in Ankara on Thursday that Tehran supports the idea of holding further talks in Turkey.
Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, recently said he had called on six powers - the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - to resume talks.
"I believe all issues can be easily solved through negotiations," Larijani told the news conference.
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El síndrome de la mano oculta
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30 November 2011
Patrick Cockburn
CounterPunch
Traducudo para Rebelión por Loles Oliván
Irán ha sido denunciado en Washington como la fuente de donde procede buena parte del mal en Oriente Próximo. Arabia Saudí y sus aliados suníes ven la mano de Teherán en las protestas de Bahréin y en las de la Provincia Oriental rica en petróleo de Arabia Saudí. Ante la salida de las últimas fuerzas estadounidenses de Iraq a finales de año se están produciendo nefastas advertencias al respecto de que Iraq se está convirtiendo en un peón de Irán.
Esta demonización de Irán parece a veces preparar el terreno para un ataque militar de Estados Unidos e Israel a Irán. La propaganda acumulada es muy similar a la dirigida contra el Iraq de Sadam Husein en 2002. En ambos casos, un Estado aislado con recursos limitados se presenta como un peligro real para la región y para el mundo. Se da crédito oficial a teorías de la conspiración, poco probables y a veces cómicas, como el supuesto complot de un concesionario de automóviles usados iraní-estadounidense en Texas en equipo con la Guardia Revolucionaria iraní para asesinar al embajador saudí en Washington. El programa nuclear de Irán se identifica como una amenaza en la misma medida y del mismo modo que las inexistentes armas de destrucción masiva de Sadam Husein.
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The Iranian threat
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24 November 2011
Noam Chomsky
The UN could establish a Nuclear-Free Middle East Zone with the help of the US that is busy securing oil supplies [EPA]
The dire threat of Iran is widely recognised to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. General Petraeus informed the Senate Committee on Armed Services in March 2010 that "the Iranian regime is the primary state-level threat to stability" in the US Central Command area of responsibility, the Middle East and Central Asia, the primary region of US global concerns. The term "stability" here has its usual technical meaning: firmly under US control. In June 2010 Congress strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding US offensive capacity in the African island of Diego Garcia, claimed by Britain, which had expelled the population so that the US could build the massive base it uses for attacks in the Central Command area. The Navy reports sending a submarine tender to the island to service nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. Each submarine is reported to have the striking power of a typical carrier battle group. According to a US Navy cargo manifest obtained by the Sunday Herald (Glasgow), the substantial military equipment Obama has dispatched includes 387 "bunker busters" used for blasting hardened underground structures. Planning for these "massive ordnance penetrators", the most powerful bombs in the arsenal short of nuclear weapons, was initiated in the Bush administration, but languished. On taking office, Obama immediately accelerated the plans, and they are to be deployed several years ahead of schedule, aiming specifically at Iran.
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Nuclear agency says Iran worked on weapons
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09 November 2011
The UN nuclear watchdog has expressed concern about Iran's nuclear activities in a new report detailing what it calls "credible" information that Tehran may have worked on developing nuclear weapons.
In the report, published on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said: "The agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme.
"After assessing carefully and critically the extensive information available to it, the agency finds the information to be, overall, credible. This information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device."
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Amano lleva su ‘informe’ a sus amigos en Washington
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08 November 2011
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times Online,
Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens
El jefe del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA), Yukiya Amano, confirmó las recientes afirmaciones de WikiLeaks de su intensa lealtad a EE.UU., al viajar a Washington antes de la muy esperada publicación de su nuevo informe sobre Irán.
Aunque los detalles de la consulta de Amano con círculos importantes de Washington siguen siendo confidenciales, la avalancha de especulación mediática sobre el contenido de su próximo informe del 9 de noviembre, incluyendo detalles de un apéndice que sugiere la existencia de actividad de proliferación nuclear de Irán en un complejo militar en Teherán, no deja dudas de que el organismo atómico de las Naciones Unidos está totalmente ligado a la intención de EE.UU. y de sus aliados occidentales e israelíes de aumentar la presión sobre Teherán para que ceda respecto a sus actuales actividades nucleares, o se enfrente a calamitosas consecuencias.
Iraq ha enfrentado varias vueltas de sanciones de la ONU y unilaterales por su programa nuclear, que algunos sospechan está estructurado para construir un arma nuclear, una acusación rechazada por Teherán.
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The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran
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13 October 2011
Pepe Escobar
Washington is looking to increase sanctions on Iran as a result of the plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador [EPA]
No one ever lost money betting on the dull predictability of the US government. Just as Occupy Wall Street is firing imaginations all across the spectrum - piercing the noxious revolving door between government and casino capitalism - Washington brought us all down to earth, sensationally advertising an Iranian cum Mexican cartel terror plot straight out of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. The potential victim: Adel al-Jubeir, the ambassador in the US of that lovely counter-revolutionary Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted the Iran-masterminded terror plot “reads like the pages of a Hollywood script”. It does. And quite a sloppy script at that. Fast and Furious duo Paul Walker/Vin Diesel wouldn’t be caught dead near it.
The good guys in this Washington production are the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). In the words of Attorney General Eric Holder, they uncovered “a deadly plot directed by factions of the Iranian government to assassinate a foreign Ambassador on US soil with explosives”.
Holder added that the bombing of the Saudi embassy in Washington was also part of the plan. Subsequent spinning amplified that to planned bombings of the Israeli embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires.
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Dozens of Iranian soldiers died as fighting intensified
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18 July 2011
Large scale cross border operation by Iranian army
Dozens of Iranian soldiers were killed by Kurdish PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) guerrillas as a result of a large scale operation launched by the Iranian army. The Iranian army has crossed the borders of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Heavy fighting continued trough Sunday. The operation was started by the Iranian army on Saturday morning.
108 Iranian soldiers killed
108 Iranian soldiers were killed in the fighting in the last 24 hours. The clashes were fiercer in Katumani (where 40 soldiers are said to have been killed) and Berdenaze (where 15 soldiers died), two border regions on the eastern side of Mount Kandil, said a spokesman for PJAK.
The other 53 soldiers were killed in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Sardasht, a border town in Iranian Kurdistan, and Dola Koke, in the region of Kandil.
The Kurdish armed organization claims to have lost seven guerrillas in the clashes.
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