Iran::Articles

Nir Rosen
The Washington Note - May, 2008
The truth is, most allegations about Iran's role in Iraq and the region are unfounded or dishonest. Iran was responsible for ending the recent fighting in Basra and calming the situation after Iraqi parliamentarians who backed Prime Minister Maliki approached it.
Abbas Milani
Boston Review - April, 2008
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won a surprise election victory in 2005, has descended into infamy in the United States as a dangerous demagogue and an anti-Semite. Ahmadinejad must be taken seriously, however, and not just for his threats, verbal outbursts, and political provocations. Wherever he speaks and whomever he addresses, Ahmadinejad is always communicating with a domestic audience of millions of citizens in Iran, as well as with the rest of the Muslim world.
Wendy Kristianasen
Le Monde Diplomatique - April, 2008
Iran's government has shut down the magazine Zanan after 17 years and 151 issues, ending its advocacy of women's rights and its fearless exposures of wrongs against women under the current regime.
John Kelly and Bruce Etling
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School - April, 2008
Given the repressive media environment in Iran today, blogs may represent the most open public communications platform for political discourse. The peer-to-peer architecture of the blogosphere is more resistant to capture or control by the state than the older, hub and spoke architecture of the mass media model.
Gary Sick, Trita Parsi, Chas Freeman, Barbara Slavin, Ray Takeyh
Middle East Policy - April, 2008
We are here to talk about an issue that has become, rather oddly I think, almost a national preoccupation, which is the question of Iran, its interests, its policies, its influence, its programs, and its challenge to the United States in that regard.
Patrick Disney and Danny Hosein
Foreign Policy in Focus - April, 2008
For three decades, the United States has chosen policies of isolation and sanctions rather than cooperation. As a result, Iran has demonstrated the ways it can hurt the United States in Iraq and maintain military confrontation. Without at least the offer to negotiate, the United States will continue to navigate the impasse with Iran with a severely limited set of tools -- all of which lead further down the path to war. The risk of fruitless negotiations is far outweighed by the benefits of even marginal progress.
Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment - March, 2008
Sadjadpour argues that "Iran's Islamic government is more powerful than it has ever been vis-a-vis the United States, Khamenei is more powerful than he's ever been within Iran, and in order to devise a more effective U.S. policy toward Iran a better understanding of Khamenei is essential."
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - March, 2008
Gareth Porter
Asia Times - March, 2008
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - March, 2008
William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, and Jim Walsh
New York Review of Books - February, 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Foreign Policy in Focus - February, 2008
Farideh Farhi
Global Affairs Blog - February, 2008
International Atomic Energy Agency - February, 2008
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - February, 2008
Rostam Pourzal
Foreign Policy in Focus - February, 2008
Seymour Hersh
New Yorker - February, 2008
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - February, 2008
Marc Lynch
Abu Aardvark Blog - January, 2008
General Accounting Office - January, 2008
Max Rodenbeck
New York Review of Books - January, 2008
Marc Lynch
Christian Science Monitor - January, 2008
Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh
Foreign Affairs - December, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment: Global Affairs - December, 2007
Trita Parsi
Antiwar.com - December, 2007
Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh
Real Clear Politics - December, 2007
Cara Ong
Foreign Policy in Focus - December, 2007
Carah Ong
MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project - November, 2007
Director General
IAEA - November, 2007
National Intelligence Council
- November, 2007
Maziar Bahari
Newsweek - November, 2007
Trita Parsi
The Nation - November, 2007
Omid Memarian
Open Democracy - October, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment: Global Affairs - October, 2007
Nasrin Alavi
Open Democracy - October, 2007
Haleh Esfandiari and Robert S. Litwak
Chronicle of Higher Education - October, 2007
John H. Richardson
Esquire - October, 2007
Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker - October, 2007
Peter Galbraith
New York Review of Books - October, 2007
Trita Parsi and Ervand Abrahamian
Democracy Now - September, 2007
Martin van Creveld
Jewish Daily Forward - September, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment Global Affairs - September, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment Global Affairs - September, 2007
Paul Rogers
Oxford Research Group - February, 2006