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		<title>A mistaken case for Syrian regime change</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2012/a-mistaken-case-for-syrian-regime-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aisling Byrne
Article posted on Asia Times Online on 05 January 2012 and republished by Counterpunch in the USA.
&#8220;War with Iran is already here,&#8221; wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing &#8220;the combination of covert warfare and international pressure&#8221; being applied to Iran.
Although not mentioned, the &#8220;strategic prize&#8221; of the first stage of this war on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Policy Paper: Tour d’horizon: An Iranian optic on the Middle East and its prospects</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2012/latest-policy-paper-tour-d%e2%80%99horizon-an-iranian-optic-on-the-middle-east-and-its-prospects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
Almost a year ago, in a well-remembered Friday prayer sermon delivered on February 4, 2011, Ayatollah Khamenei spoke at length, in Arabic, about the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. At the time, the Egyptian people were on the streets attempting to topple the Western-backed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Intervention in Syria:No Room for Equivocation</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/foreign-intervention-in-syria-no-room-for-equivocation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ibrahim al-Amin
Article posted on Al-Akhbar English, 01 November 2011 
Syria today is approaching a new crossroads &#8230; These fears are not based on a general reading of the situation, but on concrete evidence reaching several regional capitals about the course that the US, Europe, and their Arab clients have decided to take on Syria. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Monograph:Understanding Hizbullah’s Support for the Asad Regime</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/understanding-hizbullah%e2%80%99s-support-for-the-asad-regime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Monograph written by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an independent Lebanese academic and political analyst.
Although Hizbullah does indeed depend on the Asad regime for its arms’ flow, this consideration alone does not adequately grasp the other motives behind its controversial stance, nor does it sufficiently explain the sturdiness of its alliance with Syria. Reducing Hizbullah’s close alliance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘great game’ in Syria</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/the-%e2%80%98great-game%e2%80%99-in-syria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke
Article posted on Asia Times Online, 22 October 2011 
This summer, a senior Saudi official told John Hannah [1], former United States vice president Dick Cheney&#8217;s former chief-of-staff, that from the outset of the Syrian upheaval in March, the king has believed that regime change in Syria would be highly beneficial to Saudi interests: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Policy Paper: Politics After Al-Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/latest-policy-paper-politics-after-al-qaeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Policy Paper written by Faisal Devji, University Reader in History and Fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
Released by the Pentagon following the American assassination of Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, an already “iconic” image showing Al-Qaeda’s frail leader watching footage of himself on an antiquated television [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfolding the Syrian Paradox</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/unfolding-the-syrian-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke
Article posted on Asia Times Online
Can Syria properly be understood as an example of a “pure” Arab popular revolution, an uprising of non-violent, liberal protest against tyranny that has been met only by repression? I believe this narrative to be a complete misreading, deliberately contrived to serve quite separate ambitions. The consequences of turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Examination of the Ideological, Political and Strategic Causes of Iran’s Commitment to the Palestinian Cause</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/an-examination-of-the-ideological-political-and-strategic-causes-of-iran%e2%80%99s-commitment-to-the-palestinian-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conflicts Forum’s latest Monograph, by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
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		<title>Ayatollah Khamenei and a Principled Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/ayatollah-khamenei-and-a-principled-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/ayatollah-khamenei-and-a-principled-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seyed Mohammad Marandi
University of Tehran
Paper presented at the International Conference: RENOVATION &#038; INTELLECTUAL IJTIHAD IN IMAM KHAMENEI, Beirut, 6 &#038; 7 June 2011.
One of the most important points to keep in mind when discussing the leadership of Ayatollah al-Udhma Imam Khamenei is the very fact that he was chosen to succeed the towering figure of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Policy Paper: Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/latest-policy-paper-islamic-visions-of-the-outcome-of-the-recent-arab-revolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://conflictsforum.org/2011/latest-policy-paper-islamic-visions-of-the-outcome-of-the-recent-arab-revolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second Policy Paper written by Sheikh Chafiq Jaradi, General Director of the Institute of Sapiential Knowledge in Beirut, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download ‘Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions’.
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