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Joe Biden, the US vice-president, is the highest-ranking US official to visit Israel since Barack Obama, the US president, came into office a year ago. The visit is part of a five-day tour of the Middle East, during which Biden will hold discussions on Iran and ways to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Al Jazeera’s [...]
Iran and Pakistan have signed a $7.5bn deal to build a pipeline that will transport massive quantities of natural gas between the two countries. Dubbed the “peace pipeline”, the deal is expected to significantly improve ties between the countries. Al Jazeera spoke to Reza Amanat, a energy markets reporter, about the deal and how it [...]
This film depicts one of Iran’s key modernization projects with the building of the Karadj Dam in the years 1957-1961. My father, the only American visible in the film, had described its production to me during my youth, but he had never seen it. For his birthday in 1982, I had contacted the Morrison-Knudsen company [...]
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