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The opposition leadership has called on its supporters to use the occasion - which this year falls on Thursday - to continue the series of protests that began after the disputed victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the presidential election in June. But with the Iranian government's declaring in advance that no...
At stake in the coming clash could be the future of the Islamic Republic. What was once a spontaneous movement to contest the results of the presidential election, which opponents of Ahmadinejad say was fraudulent, has become a broader critique of the regime itself. Though most of the opposition's...
The U.S., meanwhile, has responded to the failure to reach an agreement in nuclear talks by stepping up pressure on the Iranian government. The Obama Administration is preparing new sanctions against Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the élite military branch that controls much of the economy, which the opposition...
Costa Rica has always been a progressive beacon on Central America's benighted street: the reliable democracy that makes a point of eschewing a military so it can spend more on schoolteachers. But until the Feb. 7 presidential election, it had yet to select a female head of state, something...
Political analysts say Chinchilla, who takes office May 8, has a talent for dialogue and coalition building, which she'll need when she faces Costa Rica's ultra-fractured Congress. Her center-right credentials set her apart from the other female heads of state in Latin America today: Chile's...