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[Isobel Coleman: Democracy in Development] Women Assert Place in Yemen's Protests: Throughout the 20th century, women played an important role in revolutions and wars of independence across the Islamic world. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan, well understood the critical role that women could play in the independence movement - as actors and as symbols.

[Arabia Today] Women Assert Place in Yemen's Protests | Arabia Today: Saleh, who has lost the backing of both the Saudis and the United States, seems to be in the process of trying to negotiate a handover of power.  Women have made it clear that they are determined to be part of Yemen’s transition. Undoubtedly, conservative forces will try to sideline women once the goal of overturning Saleh is achieved, much as they did in the Iranian revolution and in post-Independence Pakistan (and as some are trying to do in Egypt today).

[Deadline Live With Jack Blood] CIA conspiracy in Iran which installed Khomeini and the Mullahs: London was blackmailing and putting enormous economic pressure on the Shah’s regime by refusing to buy Iranian oil production, taking only 3 million or so barrels daily of an agreed minimum of 5 million barrels per day. This imposed dramatic revenue pressures on Iran, which provided the context in which religious discontent against the Shah could be fanned by trained agitators deployed by British and U.S. intelligence.

[Lector: A Virtual Book Club] Iran Awakening- An Awakening for Ourselves | Lector: A Virtual ...:  Looking back to my high school years, I can recall many periods of cynicism, idealism, pessimism, optimism, and just pure confusion that often led to biased and unsupported opinions that seem silly to me now.  But as I continue my education, I strive to gain new levels of objectivity in every area of my life.

[SHOAH] Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads: In 1986, Libya was bombed by Ronald Reagan, who saw Qaddafi as a convenient target through which to build support for his militaristic assaults on countries that had opposed American imperialism, above all what was then a truly revolutionary country, Nicaragua. By 2004, however, Qaddafi made his peace with the US and Britain, after which he and his British-educated son Saif enjoyed a sort of honeymoon in the Western media and among intellectuals, not least Anthony Giddens, the British sociologist and theorist of Blairism (see Giddens, “My Chat with the Colonel,” [Manchester] Guardian, March 9, 2007;

[Workers' Liberty - For international working class solidarity and socialism] Ali-Reza Nasab | Workers' Liberty: He was in a kind of despairing mood, which I think that a lot of Iranian exiles went into when the first decade of post-revolution activity passed and they realised that they were stuck in exile, making the UK their home, not knowing whether they would go back to Iran, or whether they could actually much affect what happened there anymore.

[Gold Speculator] Anglosphere Plots Color Revolutions Around the World?: Khomeini's father may have been a British agent (so some reports speculate) and Khomeini himself may have been trained by MI5/MI6. On the flight back to Iran, Khomeini reportedly said some nasty things about Iranians and generally didn't sound as if he was very happy about returning there.

[SHOAH] Iran: The Next Domino?: There has been only limited western interaction with the clerical sector, portions of which have in recent decades provided intellectual and political resistance both to the former Pahlavi regime as well as to the current regime’s ideology of “Velayet e Faqih” (rule of Islamic jurists), which, though based on the writings of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, is nevertheless theologically repugnant to many Shiite thinkers and believers; such ferment is centered in Iran’s seminaries.  Outreach to Iranian Shiite seminarians could complement USG and Western interaction with the more secular, Western-oriented elements of Iran’s political class.

[Alas, a Blog] Deeply Cynical, and Vile Beyond Belief | Alas, a Blog: I am simply saying that we need to understand the stance of Iran towards the US–whether it’s Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, or Moussavi and a different supreme leader (which I doubt will happen, but for example)–from their point of view and in the context of their experience of Iran’s history in relation to the West, which has hardly been an overwhelmingly positive one.

[Natalies Blog] Save On A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA ...: The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism under the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Reza, clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at the beck and call of the .I'ma cynical guy.

[Selenes Blog] A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent ...: The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism under the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Reza, clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at the beck and call of the .I'm a cynical guy.

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