Iraq – American and Iranian: 2 homelands at an impasse (Crosscut)

American and Iranian: 2 homelands at an impasse (Crosscut)
Let’s acknowledge a few things here. The Iranian government is tyrannical. It’s corrupt and it has a heavy record of human rights violations. All this explains the sea of people protesting in the country in city streets since the disputed June presidential election. The tides of discontent have been ebbing and flowing for years, tempered by things like the near-decade long war with Iraq and …

Preliminary results of Iraqi elections as early as Thursday (People’s Daily)
Preliminary results of Iraq’s landmark elections are expected to be released on Thursday, said a UN official. &$ &$Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki casts his ballot at a polling station in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, on March 7, 2010. Iraq began its official voting for the country’s crucial parliamentary election in the early morning on Sunday. This is the second national poll since the fall of …

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-10 18:39 UPDATE 2-Iraq expects to step up T-bill activity in 2010 (Interactive Investor)
By Michael Christie

U.S. troop recall: Iraq s foes have eye on timetable, too (The Oklahoman)
Another word or two about Sunday s Iraqi elections.Although the jihadists and other insurgent enemies of democracy failed to deter this week s parliamentary vote with scattered violence, they almost certainly see the scheduled withdrawal of all American troops by the end of next year as their greatest opportunity to ruin modern self-government in Iraq .The Iraqi government and security forces …

Iraq PM ahead in partial vote results (EuroNews)
Initial results from Iraq s national election are likely to be released today. There s no indication that any bloc will win an outright majority but the Iraqi prime minister is tipped even by the opposition to grab a big share of the vote.

Gates Appeals to Saudi King on Tougher Sanctions Against Iran (Bloomberg)
March 11 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates sought Saudi Arabia s help in rallying support for tougher United Nations sanctions against Iran and urged other Persian Gulf partner nations to strengthen their militaries.

Reporter challenges US media coverage of Iraq (The Daily Texan)
By: Michael Moran On Wednesday, an American journalist for Al-Jazeera criticized the American news media s coverage of recent Iraqi elections and warned of a possible civil war in northern Iraq after the U.S. military withdraws most of its troops later this year….

Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout.

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