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Iran’s 40 years of failure
Will Iran’s ayatollahs survive until next year’s 40th anniversary of the revolution that brought them to power? As the tide of protest at the collapsing living standards once again rises across the country, with major demonstrations this week in Tehran, it is clear that the only achievement that Iran’s rulers will have to celebrate will be four decades of failure.Whatever else the regime offers to its citizens as evidence of its success, so much depends on their prosperity. As President Bill Clinton impatiently told the group of policy wonks working on his campaign to retain the White House: “It’s the economy, stupid”. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may cherish the notion that he is playing to nationalist sentiments with his nuclear weapons program and his aggressive...
June 27, 2018

Iran’s 40 years of failure

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan
Erdogan’s triumph
RECEP Tayyip Erdogan shares the Turkish tendency to play a good hand badly. The Turkish president has just been returned to the one-thousand room palace he built for himself and his country’s future heads of state. The final election results are not in but it seems Erdogan won some 52.5 percent of the votes, while his main challenger managed around 30 percent.In his victory speech before a delirious crowd of supporters, he delivered the sonorous warning that no one should seek to challenge the legitimacy of the vote. This had the unfortunate consequence of making it seem there might be cause for a challenge. The jury may still be out on the fairness of the elections. State-controlled media along with a now much-cowed independent news sector gave far more coverage to Erdogan than his...
June 26, 2018

Erdogan’s triumph

Renew Afghan ceasefire
ON June 17, there was a suicide attack by Taliban near Nangarhar governor’s compound in Afghanistan, killing at least 18 people and wounding another 49. Is it not the kind of things Taliban have been doing ever since America invaded their country in 2001?Yes. Still it has attracted a lot of attention for two reasons. One, itbelies the claim by Lt. Gen. Austin Scott Miller, commander of the US forces in Afghanistan, that there is “progress” in the war against Taliban and an assorted group of insurgents. Second and most important, Taliban launch a major offensive on the last day of a three-day truce they declared to coincide with the Afghan government's 10-day ceasefire for Eid Al-FitrLast week there were other incidents indicating that the Taliban are on the offensive and most...
June 25, 2018

Renew Afghan ceasefire

At last, Saudi women behind the wheel
Today has arrived. The dream is a reality. The momentous occasion has come in which women in Saudi Arabia will start driving. After decades spent in the passenger seat or in the back of a car, the Kingdom’s over 15 million women can be finally in control not just of the steering wheel but of a big part of their lives. It is a turning point of immense proportions and a historic moment in every sense of the term.Most people, in Saudi Arabia and outside its borders, never thought they would see this day. For the first time, Saudi women will legally be able to take to the roads. From today, they will be able to drive to work, take their car to visit families, relatives and friends, and take their children to school, just a taste of the myriad of other possibilities. Their life will be...
June 24, 2018

At last, Saudi women behind the wheel

Why the UNHRC always singles out Israel
One of the biggest reasons for the US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is what US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called its “chronic bias” against Israel. For good reason does the UNHRC single out Israel. One of the council’s longstanding agenda items, for example, is examining human rights abuses in Palestine and other Arab territories. The special agenda item, known as Item 7, for the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, is the only situation in the world to have a permanent council agenda item devoted solely to it. That is because abusive Israeli practices in Gaza and the West Bank clearly deserve scrutiny as well as condemnation wherever and whenever they occur.The council voted in 2006 to make a review of human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature of...
June 23, 2018

Why the UNHRC always singles out Israel

Trump and the Mexican migrants
President Donald Trump continues to advance his anti-immigration policies with the bombast and confusion that characterizes his most unusual administration. But there was one element in his clampdown on Mexicans caught up in his new immigration dragnet that was perfectly clear. It was simply plain wrong, if not indeed immoral, to separate the children of apprehended families from their parents.Such was the outcry, even from die-hard Republican voters who otherwise enthusiastically back the President’s clampdown on illegal migrants, that Trump hurriedly signed an executive order stopping the practice. While he made it clear that he was still committed to zero tolerance for anyone in the country illegitimately he said that he did not like the sight of families being separated. Immigration...
June 22, 2018

Trump and the Mexican migrants

The folly of India's Airtel
A reprehensible case of Islamophobia has started a serious row in India. The telecoms company Airtel is being condemned for kowtowing to a Sikh customer who refused to deal with a Muslin staff member, because she said she had “No faith in the Muslim’s work ethics” since “the Koran (Qur’an) may have a different version for customer service". She wanted her problem to be dealt with by a Hindu representative.Far from telling this Sikh woman, Pooja Singh, that her demand was entirely unacceptable, Airtel shamelessly caved in and assigned a Hindu staff member to help her.It also sent a holding message that read “Hey. I most definitely appreciate you reaching out here! We’ll take a closer look into that & get back shortly with more information”.Apart from the gibberish that...
June 21, 2018

The folly of India's Airtel

Turkey’s deepening rift with US
NOT long after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power, a senior US diplomat, then serving in Ankara, wrote that Erdogan was not going to be “Washington’s man”. At the time, his report was dismissed at the State Department. It seemed unthinkable to the panjandrums in Foggy Bottom that Turkey, a key NATO ally whose military was largely armed with US equipment, would ever actually cease to be an ally, no matter what sound bites Erdogan might serve up for the media.Yet this is what has happened. Turkey is buying S-400 surface-to-air missile systems from Moscow and the increasingly confrontational Erdogan has made it clear that they will be used against US warplanes if necessary. It is therefore hardly surprising that the US Congress has just blocked the delivery of F-35...
June 20, 2018

Turkey’s deepening rift with US

Business as war
Quite a few MBA courses recommend students read Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” written two thousand years ago in China. Among the many other business books crowding bookshop shelves which frequently travel in the luggage of ambitious executives is one that absolutely insists “Business is War”. Rivals have to be beaten, driven to the wall and if there is anything left worth acquiring, taken over. Such ruthlessness may seem fair enough if it means consumers are going to get a better deal. But of course the rarely spoken dream of every top executive is a monopoly, or something sufficiently close to complete market dominance where they can name their prices. What generally stops them are regulations overseen by governments. Though World Trade Organization rules target ever-freer...
June 18, 2018

Business as war

South Sudan: US’ responsibility
South Sudan’s demand that a planned meeting between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader and his former deputy Riek Machar be held in South Africa instead of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has cast doubts on the chances of reviving efforts to end the violence in the world’s youngest nation. Kiir’s government said it has no objection to Wednesday’s talks being led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which has been mediating the peace talks since South Sudan plunged into a civil war in 2013. The East Africa bloc, which midwifed the first peace deal in August 2015, has been trying to have parties renegotiate a second agreement under a platform called the High Level Revitalization Forum (HLRF). South Sudan wants the talks, the first between the chief...
June 17, 2018

South Sudan: US’ responsibility

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