Q&A: Iranian Diplomat on Tehran’s Role in Iraq | Newsweek International

‘Iran Has a Very Clear Choice’
Lally Weymouth 9/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
David Miliband, currently the British foreign secretary and a possible future leader of the Labour Party, sat down last week with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth to defend the release of the Libyan terrorist convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, and to discuss Britain's role in Afghanistan and the upcoming talks with Iran. Excerpts:
The End of Lockerbie
Jerry Adler 8/20/2009 12:00:00 AM
It was the largest criminal investigation in history, and it was solved by evidence smaller than a fingernail: a fragment of circuit board tucked inside a scrap of fabric, picked up by detectives somewhere in the 845 square miles over which the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 scattered after a bomb blew it out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland. And on that tiny clue depended the fate of nations, of billions of dollars in payments to the families of the 270 people killed that night in 1988—and of one 57-year-old man, dying of cancer, who was released today by Scottish authorities to live out his days in his homeland of Libya.
Meddle Nettle
8/6/2009 12:00:00 AM
A sovereign state is, by definition, supposed to manage affairs inside its borders. But that's not always the case, especially when it comes to disputes involving guerrilla movements. After all, moral equivalency or not, one nation's terrorists really are another's freedom fighters, and foreign governments sometimes cross international borders to protect antigovernment forces elsewhere, reinforce ethnic movements, or simply to make their presence known. Last week, for example, documents revealed that Venezuela is still supporting the FARC guerrillas in Colombia.
Many Unhappy Returns
7/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
It's tempting to think that protesters may have finally given up on overturning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election. At points it has seemed like the broad base of support they once enjoyed had gone and that demonstrators were now merely wealthy secularists. At others, it seemed like the fierce official response—and government attempts to limit movement and assembly—was thwarting organizers of the opposition. But a funeral Thursday showed not only that the Green Wave lives on, but that we can expect regular revivals well into the future.
‘Indispensable And Imperfect’
Andrew Bast 7/15/2009 12:00:00 AM
Since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 without U.N. support, the country's engagement with the world body has wavered between grudging participation and downright hostility. When he assumed office, President Obama signaled an immediate change in tone by appointing Susan Rice, a national-security expert who worked on terrorism and Africa during the Clinton administration, as the American U.N. ambassador. She has now held the post for nearly six months; Rice spoke to NEWSWEEK's Andrew Bast recently about Washington's new position and what it means for the world's most threatening challenges. Excerpts:
The Killing Ground

Ferocious as it is, the bombing campaign against Iraq is probably only the prelude to an even more monumental land battle. Unless air power forces Saddam Hussein to his knees, Operation Desert Storm will shift after a matter of weeks to a vast ground campaign to evict his forces from Kuwait. As key military sources sketch it for "Newsweek,' the plan drawn up by Desert Storm commander Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf is a modern blitzkrieg--the first test ever of the U.S. Army's post-Vietnam doctrine of "AirLand Battle." Says retired U.S. Marine Corps. Gen. George Crist: "It's going to be violent, Patton-like armored thrusts, perhaps an amphibious end run...We will (be) moving so fast that the Iraqis won't know what hit 'em."