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TEHRAN – A book containing rare manuscripts and other cultural heritage of Mahan, a historical town in southeast Iran, was unveiled during a ceremony at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by provincial officials, university professors, scholars, calligraphers, and cultural heritage experts, provincial tourism chief announced. The book represents […]
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Gunboat Diplomacy and the Ghost of Captain Mahan
April 9th, 2018 
Awake Goy Originally posted at TomDispatch. Amid the intense coverage of Russian cyber-maneuvering and North Korean missile threats, another kind of great-power rivalry has been playing out quietly in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The U.S. and Chinese navies have been repositioning warships and establishing naval bases as if they were so many pawns on a geopolitical […]
USS Mahan Fires Warning Flare At Iranian Ship Sailing Off Iranian Coast
April 27th, 2017 Awake Goy The USS Mahan, a guided-missile destroyer, moves up the Hudson River in New York. (Photo: Ed Bailey/AP) US warships have made a habit of wandering around in the Persian Gulf just off the coast of Iran, waiting for Iranian Naval ships to get sort of close, then complain in the international media how “unprofessional” that […]
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Tags: fires, flare, iranian, mahan, sailing, warning 
No Comments »Geneva meet Friday for Syria humanitarian access: UN
February 12th, 2016 Awake Goy TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Representatives of 17 countries will meet in Geneva Friday afternoon for United Nations-hosted talks on how to ensure humanitarian access in war-ravaged Syria, a UN spokeswoman said. “The humanitarian group will meet today at 4:00 pm (1500 GMT),” Khawla Mattar, a spokeswoman for UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, told AFP in […]
