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...Lanka offers some lessons as to why civil wars are so hard to end. Part of the problem is that fratricidal disputes are often personal and heartfelt. "Both sides see themselves as being locked in a fight against evil," Jehan Perera, executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, wrote in a recent appraisal of his country's war. This fight is part ethnic, part religious and wholly vicious. "It is the belief in the unchanging nature of the other that often leads to violence. Both think the other won't change...
...snatching the Brits, the Iranian regime's hard-line Revolutionary Guard appeared to be responding to growing international pressure over Iran's nuclear program and the U.S.'s detention of Iranian officials in Iraq. But more pragmatic voices, like Ali Larijani, above right, head of Iran's National Security Council, pushed to resolve the crisis before it escalated and further isolated Iran...
...Iran's sudden decision to release the Britons may mean that the Western pressure on the Iranian regime is bearing fruit. A day after the Britons were taken captive, the U.N. Security Council passed the second set of sanctions against Iran in three months - and a third round of sanctions is anticipated if Iran does not freeze its uranium-enrichment program, which the U.S. fears could enable Tehran to produce a nuclear weapon. As Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns told the Senate last week, "Despite the fulminations of President Ahmadinejad, Iran is not impervious to financial and diplomatic...
...Iranian and British leaders maintained constant contact through direct diplomatic channels, and kept their heads amid rising domestic political pressure on both ends to act tough. In particular, the outcome is a significant boost for Iran's pragmatists led by Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and who is also Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator. Last year, Ahmadinejad's hard-line opposition had helped scuttle a deal Larijani was crafting in discussion with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana that involved a temporary suspension of Iran's enrichment program. In announcing the release...
While speculation continues in the West over the fate of the 15 British sailors and marines being held in Iran, in Tehran the stand-off is nearly a wrap. On Monday, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, said Iran wanted to "solve the problem using diplomatic channels." The softened tone was echoed throughout Tehran's media and policy circles, and within two days, newspapers, blogs, and analysts began tallying scores and discussing the controversy as though it were over. Former officials who last week spoke in tones of high anxiety over the prospect of military...