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Ali Ettefagh

Tehran, Iran

Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. He is the co-author of several books on trade conflict, resolution of international trade disputes, conflicts in letters of credit, trade-related banking transactions, sovereign debt, arbitration and dispute resolutions and publications specific to the oil and gas, communication, aviation and finance sectors. Dr. Ettefagh is a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of The Development Foundation, an advisor to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and an advisor to a number of European companies. Dr. Ettefagh speaks Persian (Farsi), English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Turkish. Close.

Ali Ettefagh

Tehran, Iran

Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. more »

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July 13, 2006 12:54 PM

Israel's Rough Recipe for Regional Change

Tehran, Iran -- The latest cycles of violence are part of an overall Israeli plan to keep the region unstable. It is simply another installment of the raw reality that Israel has little regard for international systems of law and order.

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July 18, 2006 2:50 PM

Peacekeepers? Peace Makers Wanted

Tehran, Iran -- Peacekeeping is indeed the primary task of the Security Council. But that task has been neglected for such a long time that the Middle East is in urgent need of a boldly enforced peace making plan. A durable plan with foreign troops on both sides of Israel's borders is needed.

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July 22, 2006 11:30 AM

The Violence of Impoverished Thought

Tehran, Iran - Recent events in the Middle East seem to justify scholar Samuel Huntington's rough view of racial purity and his resistance to intercultural encounters. He must be thrilled these days. War is a by-product of intellectual bankruptcy which presumes ingrained antagonisms between cultures.

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August 10, 2006 8:45 AM

U.S.-Mideast Tension Harms Global Economies

Tehran, Iran - The United States' excessive spending in the Mideast and fiscal recklessness has led to a massive debt. This worries Asian countries that supply the U.S. goods. Like Bashir says, China might escape the consequences of this shifting U.S. demand for goods, but the impact on more fragile economies in the region will be significant.

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August 12, 2006 8:00 AM

Distinguishing Terrorism from Crime

Tehran, Iran- Terrorism is usually defined as act of violence against ordinary people for political purposes. The events of August 10 in UK were indeed successful police work against criminals. It was exemplary of how a system of law enforcement and international cooperation must operate against aimless criminals that seek nothing more than a venue for a spectacular and morbid event.

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October 9, 2006 12:05 PM

Mutually Assured Failure

Tehran, Iran- It seems that North Korea has taken its best shot with its nuclear program. It first opted out of NPT, then tested its 1960's vintage missile technology and it has now experimented with a crude nuclear device.

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December 8, 2006 3:07 PM

Winning in the Long Run

Tehran, Iran- Washington needs to think hard and change course. There are some signals that it's doing so, such as Vice President Cheney's "80 percent solution".

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January 14, 2007 12:29 PM

Still, "The Ungrateful Volcano"

Tehran, Iran - Back in 1922, a young Winston Churchill said being in Iraq is akin to "living on an ungrateful volcano". Some 80 years later, the Bush Administration must feel the same way.

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May 31, 2007 9:54 AM

Start with Cool Heads and Good Faith

The agenda for the first U.S.-Iran meeting in Baghdad was about Iraq and a search for solutions to turn Iraq’s misfortunes around. Each party has its own interest in seeing a stable Iraq and some sort of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.

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November 2, 2007 9:12 AM

Why Not Dissolve Pakistan, Too?

Pakistan is not a country. It is a failed British fantasy about the fabrication of a nation-state. It has other failed and failing peers in the Middle East, all fabricated during the 20th century. It is time to seriously review all of these structures and redraw the borderlines.

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November 2, 2007 9:12 AM

Why Not Dissolve Pakistan, Too?

Pakistan is not a country. It is a failed British fantasy about the fabrication of a nation-state. It has other failed and failing peers in the Middle East, all fabricated during the 20th century. It is time to seriously review all of these structures and redraw the borderlines.

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December 27, 2007 5:46 PM

Pakistan Searches for 'Plan B'

The Question: After Benazir Bhutto's assassination on Thursday, what's next for Pakistan?

Welcome to Crossed Wires Central of opaque politics, in a Non-Proliferation Treaty non-signatory member called Pakistan, where the political process is plagued by exponential variants of extremism while players might wear uniforms, civilian western-style clothes or traditional robes as they co-exist and befriend drug lords, game the intelligence apparatus, blend in as university professors, or expediently co-exist with the newly regrouped Taliban, lawyers, facilitators for al-Qaeda, or the visiting president of Afghanistan.

A large corps of retired military chiefs can serve as the nexus or the guiding hands in the background where there are no dividing lines and where principles are rather fluid. Typical political players could be any combination of the above in a puzzling Byzantine and or Faustian combination, layered with tribal allegiances that often trump national cohesion. Thus, the vapid political process is subordinated to names, personalities and proven politics rather than a process of politics that is neither democratic nor totalitarian. Throughout its sixty-year history, all new political faces have either been the product of coups or the assassination of a tribal elder. None have climbed the ordinary process of political concurrence or the rise through the ranks of a multi-party system.

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