Selected updates on Iraq, Turkey, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Russia, and Sudan – courtesy, of course, of Iranian interference – from Is Iran’s Fist Still Clenched. A check-in in on extended hands, carrots and sticks, reset buttons, walls of fear, and miscellaneous other hackneyed smart power metaphors in Central Asia and beyond.
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Clownishly With Oh-So-Ironic Gifts To Hand Out At UN
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Thanks To UK Firms That Just Change Their Name To Dodge Sanctions
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against US But Council On Foreign Relations – Right On Cue – Urges “Rethinking” and Engagement
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against Turkey, Launching Major “Defense Drills”
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… But Russia’s Going To Seal New Mineral Mining Deals With Them Anyway
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… And Infiltrating Venezuela To Target US
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… - Still – Against the FBI Agent They Disappeared In 2007
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… As Power-Brokers In Afghanistan
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Confidently Thanks To Sanctions-Busting Oil Production On Qeshm Island
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Against The US, Launching A “New Power Play” In Afghanistan
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… Even Against A “Let’s Avoid War” Military Hot Line With The US
Iran’s Fist Is Still Clenched… In An Alliance With Sudan Against “Powers Of Arrogance”
Related Mere Rhetoric Categories:
* AfPak
* Venezuela
* Iran
