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Stymied in his attempts to influence Iraqi politics—he said he won a seat in Parliament in 2004 but was denied it because of political reshuffling between the three major parties—Jawad said he has turned his hopes towards poetry...
...professor Stephen P. Rosen ’74, who pushed for war on the basis of American interests abroad. Ignatieff began to reevaluate his stance on Iraq soon after the invasion, he said in a phone interview from Toronto, where he now serves as a member of the Canadian parliament. At the same time as his opinion on Iraq was shifting, he was also moving from academia—where he had served as the director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—to politics. He returned to his native country...
...what next" ran the banner headline on the left-leaning daily Radikal. "Close down parliament then" said the mainstream Sabah...
...encourage us not to vote. We don't want internal war, we don't want an invasion, we don't want a revolution. We just want to make sure we don't lose the 'Republic' aspect of the Islamic Republic - and that we vote enough reformists in the parliament to prepare the grounds for next year's presidential elections...
...unwritten, tactical coalition of moderate conservatives and reformists" gradually fortifying into a "real, strategic coalition." These two groups are closer to each other than either is to Ahmadinejad's camp in terms of their pragmatic outlook on foreign policy and the economy. With about a third of the new parliament consisting of reformist and independent candidates, Atrianfar says there is a good chance that this bloc could attract critical members among conservatives, especially if Ahmadinejad continues with his inflationary economic and confrontational foreign policies. That would increase the chances of a "critical coalition" among reformists and conservatives to pave...