While claiming that the critics of the Iran Deal are “overstretching the specter of Iran’s imperialism,” Paul Pillar more than underplays the reality of it even as it unfolds under our watchful eyes in places like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon.
Tag: Bahrain
Obama Uses Speech To Support Democratic Change
KELEMEN: It was one of the few lines that elicited applause from the audience, which included Arab diplomats, academics and activists like Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian blogger.
Mr. AMMAR ABDULHAMID (Blogger): I think a lot of Bahrainis will still be disappointed – I know; I have a lot of colleagues in Bahrain – because they wanted sort of a clearer push for their rights; a clearer condemnation of the violence, of the suppression that took place, of the Saudi intervention. He definitely skirted over the issue of Saudi intervention.
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 