Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 43

26-Oct-2009

Political Comment (26 October 2009)

A suicide attack by the Sunni Islamist group Jundollah has killed six senior members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The UN Human Rights Council has approved the report of South African Jurist Richard Goldstone accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in Gaza. Iraq's parliament has failed to pass a new elections law. President Obama has announced a policy of engagement with Sudan. And it looks as if Iran...