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Cues from Iran on who to vote for
News, Marc Champion, Published on 03/07/2024
» The opposition just won a first round of elections, forcing a runoff in which everything depends on where third-party votes go. No, not in France -- in Iran. You could be forgiven for missing it amid all the excitement over the advance of the French hard right, President Joe Biden's car crash debate in the US and the coming immolation of the UK's Conservative Party. Yet Iran's experience is worth attention, not least as a reminder of what to vote for and why. Iran, to recap, is having a snap contest to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. Raisi was also being groomed to succeed the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the unelected post that -- as the title suggests -- matters most in the Islamic Republic.
Is Cameron bluffing?
News, Marc Champion, Published on 13/11/2015
» What will Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron do if he fails to get all or some of the reforms he is demanding from the European Union?
Syria is Turkey's eastern Ukraine
News, Marc Champion, Published on 01/12/2015
» Russian leaders have evidently been shocked by Turkey's deliberate decision to shoot down one of their planes, which they say was motivated by Turkey's alleged support for the Islamic State (IS) and greed for the proceeds of smuggled terrorist oil. A simpler explanation is that Russia would have done the same.