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Ali Ettefagh

Tehran, Iran

Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. He is the co-author of several books on trade conflict, resolution of international trade disputes, conflicts in letters of credit, trade-related banking transactions, sovereign debt, arbitration and dispute resolutions and publications specific to the oil and gas, communication, aviation and finance sectors. Dr. Ettefagh is a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of The Development Foundation, an advisor to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and an advisor to a number of European companies. Dr. Ettefagh speaks Persian (Farsi), English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Turkish. Close.

Ali Ettefagh

Tehran, Iran

Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. more »

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Style over Substance, Unfinished Plans

Tony Blair has managed to present himself as a flexible politician while choosing politics over policy. He promised to be a grand modernizer and many of his achievements are noteworthy. But the past 10 years have seen more media spin than effective reform; Britain has moved away from Europe and lost economic competitiveness.

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Shamit Ghosh:

I think London has replaced NY as the financial capital of the world. We do have problems but I dont see the periodic riots that this geezer is talking about and I am British Asian.

UK is the most cosmopolitan country in the world and we do not have the problems of ultra right wing parties, some of whom are even winning elections. EU is an elitist concept without the support of the masses in Europe and last time I checked our economy was doing better than the ones in mainland Europe.

British Foreign policy under Blair dealt with Milosoveic, Sierra Leone and made international development a main tool for foreign policy execution.

Whatever his faults, and whatever his limitations, he was a good prime minister who achieved quite a bit. Rather than criticising Blair, why dont you write about how your country is executing juvenilles...guess thats okay. Why dont you write about how idotic ahmedinajad or whatever the hell is name -- is doing globally.

456:

Very correct. Why is a pint of milk or a litre of petrol (gasoline) or a car or....is 20 to 40% more than France, Belgium, Germany? And why UK continues its separation from the euro?

R A Thomas:

Send Blair to Guantanamo!

Anonymous:

Playing the world stage with wars of choice needs deep pockets that UK does not have.

London dweller:

All sounds like observations of some one in UK. It is a pleasant surprise to see some one in Tehran is so in touch with what is going on in Britain.

He is certainly right about the dual track UK. There is little news coverage of problems in the Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim communities in the Midlands. The 07-07 events and bombings were an eye opener. The terrorists were all homegrown and locals, a school teacher, a used car dealer, cricket fans, etc. The boys next door. But it didn't pay for Mr. Blair to give these issues any coverage and Mr. Blair has not toured the heartland for a long time. Reform and salvation comes from within, not in foreign policy.

Thank you, Dr. Ettefagh.

Per Pro:

Keen observations. UK has indeed isolated itself from the rest of Europe which is now unified and making its own decisions.

Francine Last:

I believe that Dr. Ali Ettefagh's analysis of Blair is very astute and again, raises the good with the bad. Yes, Blair could well have done better had he had better judgement than to side with George Bush. Both were completely ignorant of the world and arrogant at the same time. If Al Gore had been president (which was his rightful due), things may have been very different in this world, with a global consensus on climate change and a more open, friendly and tolerant world vision. It's sad to think of such a wasted opportunity and the American people will deeply regret electing the worst president in US history twice over!

oceanictruths@gmail.com:

The poodle is just that. He tries hard to get a multiplier effect on Great Britain's ever receding importance by tugging on to Uncle Sam's coat tails.

Ideally he would like the US to think of Britain as the mothership - the only country it could trust because of the so called similarities between the two. Hope America with all its naivety and inexperience dosen't fall into the trap of being called an European or British colony after all!

History will remember Blair as the chipmunk who was also human.

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