Aijaz Ahmad discusses with Newsclick the current stand-off between the US and Iran after the current round of sanctions that includes Irani Central Bank. He believes that the US policy is regime change and no solution can take place unless other countries such as India, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, China, etc intervene.

Mamdouh Habbashi, an activist and one of the founding members of the Egyptian Socialist Party discusses with Newsclick what the uprising of January 2011 achieved and how much more is left for it to be called a revolution. He discusses the role of the Military Council and Muslim Brotherhood, which has tried to snatch the gains of the January movement and take it in a different direction. His analysis sounds prescient in view of the events currently unfolding in Tahrir square.

Olfa Lamloum, a researcher and a political analysts discusses with Newsclick the implications of the Tunisian elections. The victory of En-Nahda and other parties is not that of Islamic forces but more a rejection of all those who were compromised by association with the old regime. All the parties that have won including En-Nahda are those who were seen by the people to be the ones that had fought the authoritarian and corrupt Ben Ali regime.

Aijaz Ahmad, the well-known commentator discusses with Newsclick the larger geo-strategic context of the current scenario in Syria. He explains that the embattled Bashar al Assad regime is the last nationalist Arab regime. Arab nationalism has always been considered the enemy of imperialism, Zionism and reactionary Arab monarchies. This is at the core of what is happening in Syria today.

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