Katherine Butler

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Articles: 2012 See this film and then say that bombing Iran is ok - You can only think it is morally legitimate when you have dehumanised Iranians as the enemy - 28th February We'll always need the Marie Colvins - Covering wars properly is expensive and requires skills - 23rd February Women! Do everything and then learn how to shoot clay pigeons - 17th January

Articles: 2011 The power of making, baking and growing - 2nd December Dangerous power game the West should refuse to play - The best way to disarm Tehran's hardliners would be the equivalent of the Arab Spring - 8th November To live, and die, for the thrill of speed - Was it, I wonder, an evening at the cinema that brought Stirling Moss to his senses? - 14th June Painful and damning, but findings which should inspire renewal - The disgraceful length of proceedings can, in part, be blamed on the 'persistent and active concealment' by the two men - 24th March Iran's tyranny will pass, but not peacefully ... - Where next? That's what everyone from the tweeters and youth organisers credited with mobilising Egypt's revolution, to the King of Bahrain ... - 18th February Europe's betrayal of the Arab awakening ... - As the shockwaves from events in its Mediterranean backyard have reverberated, reaction in Europe has gone through a number of phases - 10th February

Articles: 2010 Clemency would suit Tehran's interests - An Iranian man who has grown tired of his wife has options. He can divorce her with impunity, but he doesn't even have to go to that much trouble - 10th December Room with a strongly held view - You can't help wondering what happened. What was it that provoked somebody to go online and post a review urging others to avoid Detroit's Westin Book Cadillac Hotel "unless you and your family actually enjoy sharing your evening with the local prostitutes" - 29th October What made mothers so superior? - ... Have you got kids? Careful how you phrase it if the answer is no and you're a woman, especially one whose biological clock has been ticking - 16th October It looks like a victory for Iran – but we've been here before - Is this a positive step towards averting a global crisis or a cynical ploy? - 18th May Youths with nothing to lose, or tyrants? - Should the outside world think about doing business with the Taliban? - 28th January

Articles: 2009 Iran has rarely been less likely to do favours for Western powers - David Miliband sounded positive as he expressed the hope last night that the detention of a yachtload of British sailors by Iran would be "resolved swiftly" - 1st December Iran, Russia and the missile chess game - Did Barack Obama have a chat with Karpov and Kasparov before he announced last week that he was abandoning Bush-era plans to locate a missile shield in Eastern Europe? - 25th September The terrible price of freedom - Sultan Munadi thought he had already seen the darkest hours. In a now poignant last entry to his New York Times blog, the 34-year-old Afghan "fixer" explained that no matter how bad things are now in Afghanistan, under the Taliban they were worse - 10th September Afghan women now face new dangers - One reason for the widespread public support for the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was genuine revulsion at the treatment of Afghan women under the Taliban - 7th September 'Suffragettes' of Iran demand to be heard - If what unfolded over the past week was a Tehran "spring", then it was, at least partly, driven by the pent-up despair of women, who more than any other group, have waited in vain for more than 30 years to get back their social and political rights - 13th June (See: Iran: summary) It will take more than poetry to heal the Iranian wounds - Why has Iran apparently dismissed Barack Obama's call for "a new beginning"? - 23rd March So how do we know the aid stays in the right hands? - The BBC's objection to broadcasting the disputed Gaza aid appeal appears, at least partly, to be based on the fear that Gaza aid cannot be delivered effectively - 26th January

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