The same polls found that only 10% regard Iran as a threat – unlike the ruling dictators, who have their own concerns.
Thus I discuss the standard interpretation that Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are calling on the US for defence against Iran, noting that it keeps strictly to the alleged views of the ruling dictators, ignoring the US-run polls that reveal that by overwhelming margins, the public regard the US and Israel as the serious threats, with Iran barely listed.
The reference was to the ruling dictators.
After ruling as dictator from 1828 to 1830, Bolívar convoked a convention to frame a new constitution.
Mr Qaddafi, now the world's longest-ruling dictator, with 41 years under his cartridge belt, has been re-embraced by some in the West as a reward for dropping his nuclear ambitions and because of his vast oil wealth.
Ms. Park, 60, the daughter of South Korea's longest-ruling dictator, won 51.6 percent of the votes cast on Wednesday to choose a successor to President Lee Myung-bak, who was barred by law from seeking a second term.
It is the smallest country in West Africa, and in recent years has perhaps been best known for the whims and abuses of its long-ruling dictator, Yahya Jammeh.
SEOUL, South Korea — With the election of Park Geun-hye as president on Wednesday, South Korea extended the tenure of its staunchly pro-American governing party and handed power to the daughter of South Korea's longest-ruling dictator, the first woman to win the post in a deeply patriarchal part of Asia.
It is the fourth election since protesters, led by students, ousted Suharto, Indonesia's long-ruling dictator, in 1998.At stake are 560 seats in the House of Representatives or DPR, the lower house, along with 132 seats in the upper house.
The latest attempt to award a controversial $3m Unesco prize given by Africa's longest-ruling dictator has been jeopardised by the organisation's own lawyers, who have expressed concerns over the source of funding and attempts to change the name of the award.
