Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 1-2

3/10-Jan-2011

POLITICAL COMMENT

Political Comment (3-10 January 2011)

Belligerent anti-Turkish statements by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have done little for Israeli-Turkish relations or the cohesion of Israel's governing coalition. Anti-American Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has returned home from Iran. Iran has invited selected IAEA ambassadors to visit selected nuclear sites. In Yemen the government has released prisoners as part...