Iran's preconditions for dialogue;

Wooing Sistani;

Fiscal fixes, and their discontents;

Ahmadinejad's challengers begin to emerge

An economic house of cards;

A digital window of opportunity;

Back to Iraq

A spoiler in Iraq;

Switching horses in Gaza?;

More signs of economic malaise;

A tighter rein on Hezbollah

Waiting for the Mahdi;

Band-aids over bleeding economic wounds;

More nuclear movement in Tehran;

Bad behavior in Iraq