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Selling the War with Iran

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.

Pious Populist: Understanding the Rise of Iran's President

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.

Stop the Presses

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.

Mapping Iran's Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere

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.

Roundtable: Iran's Strategic Concerns and U.S. Interests

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.

Dealing with Iran's Hardliners

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.

Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader

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."

Iran-Iraq Ties Show US the Way

Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Asia Times - March, 2008

The 'Laptop of Mass Destruction"

Gareth Porter

Asia Times - March, 2008

Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?

Robert Dreyfuss

The Nation - March, 2008

A Solution for the US-Iran Nuclear Standoff

William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, and Jim Walsh

New York Review of Books - February, 2008