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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: mullahs

mullahs stories: 8 news summaries

A Baptist and a Mullah
Team Up to Fight Taliban

US captain urges Afghan colonel to show faith to locals

Jul 16, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Baptist Army officer has teamed up with an Afghan mullah to fight Taliban propaganda that calls the Afghan army godless. “The only way we can keep people from becoming Taliban is by promoting the Muslim nature of the Afghan National Army,” says the mullah, Lt. Col. Abdul... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • propaganda • US military • Afghan Army • Baptist • mullahs • mentor

 Mullahs to Marines: 
 Earn Our Trust 
 or Leave 

Elders tell American forces to earn their trust or leave

Jul 5, 09 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - In their first meeting with local elders in the southern Afghanistan village they’re trying to rid of the Taliban, US Marines received a rather unusual greeting: Earn our trust or leave. Mullahs delivered the stern warning after the American forces promised not to leave until they improved the lives... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • mullahs • Marines

OPINION

 You Want a 
 Revolution? 
 There's a Cost 

To get real change, people will have to vote with bodies, not ballots

Jun 21, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - When revolution came to Iran in 1979, it took thousands of people taking to the streets to finally break down the shah's authority. Now the revolutionary government has all that power and oil money, and the only way to elect a leader it doesn't approve of is with bodies, not... More »

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Iran • protests • revolution • mullahs • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Revolutionary Court of Iran

ANALYSIS

As Iran Unrest Goes On, Watch the Clerics

Mullahs far from Tehran may step in to end election dispute

Jun 18, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - As protesters continue to express anger and defy arrest, the endgame of Iran's disputed election may take place not in Tehran, but in the holy city of Qom—where the country's powerful clerics have so far kept silent. Except for a few prominent reformists, Iran's mullahs have refused to take... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • cleric • Hashemi Rafsanjani • mullahs • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Qom

OPINION

 Israel Should Attack Iran 


Jun 11, 09 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - No matter who wins tomorrow’s presidential election in Iran, the threat of its nuclear program won’t go away, and that’s why Israel should attack sooner rather than later, writes former UN ambassador John Bolton in the Wall Street Journal. Attacking Iran now won’t be... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Israel • nuclear program • John Bolton • mullahs • Iran war

(Newser) - President Obama’s recent address to Iran isn’t just weak, and it doesn’t just backpedal—it’s flat out “kowtowing,” William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Unlike President Bush, Obama shows minimal respect for the Iranian people. Instead, he focuses on extending an olive... More »

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Iran • nuclear program • mullahs • President Obama • William Kristol • address • regime change

OPINION

Iran Faces Its Nightmare:
Falling Oil

Suddenly negotiating is starting to look pretty smart, says Friedman

Oct 29, 08 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's promise to negotiate with Iran once seemed like a dubious idea to Thomas Friedman—pre-conditions or not, the US had no leverage. But everything's changed now that the price of oil is at $57 and falling, writes the New York Times columnist. Once the mullahs went on a... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • oil • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • oil price • mullahs

Countrywomen Rate Bhutto's Feminist Legacy

Ex-PM advanced women's rights; but
not as much as hoped

Jan 20, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto wasn't always a staunch defender of women's rights, but for Pakistani women the fight for gender equality is a lot tougher now that she's gone. Bhutto may have jump-started women's health care and job programs, but she missed opportunities to repeal harsh anti-egalitarian laws—failures her defenders chalk... More »

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Pakistan • feminism • women • women's rights • Benazir Bhutto • Bhutto assassination • mullahs • warlords

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