{"id":855,"date":"2008-12-04T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=855"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:43:04","slug":"news-and-analysis-120408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/04\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By opening up Iran&#8217;s closed economy, making trade easier and promoting privatization, Ahmadinejad wants to turn the country into a regional powerhouse:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/03\/AR2008120304230.html\">Iran Confronts an &#8216;Economic Evolution&#8217;<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Dubai Financial Market has lost nearly 70 percent of its value since the summer:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1204\/p06s01-wome.html\">Dubai&#8217;s Frenzied, Trillion-Dollar Building Boom Falters<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The predominant extremists in India are Hindu nationalists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081128.wreckoning1128\/BNStory\/International\">This is India&#8217;s 9\/11? Think Again<\/a> (Globe and Mail)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"Span1\" class=\"DetaildSuammary\">Par for the course, &#8220;Settlers claim they\u00c2\u00a0have lawfully bought the Hebron house from a\u00c2\u00a0Palestinian, who denies selling the house:&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/12\/2008124111526428705.html\">Israel Evicts Settlers in Hebron<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US plan to withdraw by 2011 officially approved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE4B335L20081204?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews\">Iraq Presidency Council Approves U.S. Security Pact<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite entry of humanitarian aid for the first time in a week and lifting the ban on foreign journalists,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/12\/2008124111930621729.html\">Gaza Banks Face Cash Crisis<\/a>                 (Al Jazeera)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although decreasing, ethnically charged incidents are still higher than the pre-9\/11 average:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE4B30V920081204?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews\">Arab-American Hate Crimes Down Since 9\/11<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By opening up Iran&#8217;s closed economy, making trade easier and promoting privatization, Ahmadinejad wants to turn the country into a regional powerhouse:&#8221; Iran Confronts an &#8216;Economic Evolution&#8217; (Washington Post) &#8220;The Dubai Financial Market has lost nearly 70 percent of its value since the summer:&#8221; Dubai&#8217;s Frenzied, Trillion-Dollar Building Boom Falters (Christian Science Monitor) The predominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}