{"id":709,"date":"2008-07-09T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=709"},"modified":"2008-07-09T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T15:57:43","slug":"news-and-analysis-7908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/9\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Iran asserts its weapons capabilities amid heightened threats from the US and Israel over nuclear program &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/09\/AR2008070900235_pf.html\">Iran      Test-Fires Long-Range Missile<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6nonetheless, trade between the countries flourishes despite harsh talk of sanctions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/money\/story\/2008\/07\/08\/iran-bullsemen.html\">U.S. Trade With Iran Increases Tenfold Under Bush Administration<\/a> (CBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Foreign diplomatic mission that relocated in 2003 after an Al Qaeda attack is targeted again&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-turkey10-2008jul10,0,1680073,print.story\">Six      Dead in Attack on U.S. Consulate in Istanbul<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">&#8230; while Kurdish militants retaliate against German government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s action against PKK sympathizers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/world\/international-turkey-germany-kidnapping.html?pagewanted=print\">PKK Kidnaps 3 German Tourists In East Turkey: Agency<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Some Lebanese parties see the reacquisition of a contested area as a prelude to Hizbullah disarming:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0709\/p06s01-wome.html\">Shebaa Farms: Key to Stability?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Qatar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flexible foreign policy, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">to keep everybody happy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor if we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, to keep everybody reasonably unhappy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> seems to work:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/09\/world\/middleeast\/09qatar.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">Qatar, Playing All Sides, Is a Nonstop Mediator<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/troops-of-burqaclad-women-launch-morality-crackdown-from-red-mosque-455195.html\">Women played a role<\/a> in precipitating the original Red Mosque siege that damaged two radical seminaries, and now hundreds of women are active in peaceful demonstrations demanding their restoration:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7497339.stm\">Women in Pakistan      Mosque Protest<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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