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To: TobagoJack who wrote (15267)	3/13/2007 10:51:02 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217800

some snippets form the Economist Iran's minorities Jun 1st 2006 From The Economist print edition THE Islamic Republic's culture minister is under the cosh for reacting tardily to last month's publication of a cartoon, showing a cockroach speaking Azeri Turkish, which sparked rioting across Iran's Azeri-dominated north-west (see map). Members of the Majlis, Iran's parliament, have threatened to impeach Mustafa Pourmohammadi, the interior minister, for failing to stem lawlessness in the part-Baluch south-east. Cast an eye over western Iran's troubled Kurdish and Arab regions and you may concur with Rahim Shahbazi, an Azeri nationalist based in America, who calls ethnic strife a nuclear bomb that will blow away the Iranian regime.… economist.com Turkey and Armenia Turkey and Armenia Jun 15th 2006 From The Economist print edition NAIF ALIBEYOGLU, mayor of Kars, a town bordering Armenia, has a dream. He pictures a party of Turkish officials embracing their Armenian counterparts in the middle of an ancient bridge over the river that divides their countries. Reduced by war and neglect to a pair of greyish stone stumps on opposite banks of the river, its condition is an apt symbol for relations between the two countries.… economist.com The Caucasus Nov 16th 2006 From The Economist print edition NOWHERE is living next to big countries trickier than in the Caucasus. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan were for centuries swallowed by rival empires; when the last of them, the Soviet Union, collapsed, three territorial wars broke out, all of which may yet re-erupt. Now Georgia is in a cold war with Russia.…