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As the Syrian government’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protestors intensifies and President Bashar al-Assad faces increasing criticism from allies, many are watching Iran’s response. Will the isolated Islamic Republic support its important friend until the end or distance itself from the Syrian regime’s sinking ship?
According to Iranian-Israeli Middle East analyst Meir Javedanfar: “[t]he moment the [...]
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Helena Cobban, steeped in years of experience reporting from and writing about the Middle East, has a thought-provoking theory on the sudden break-up of the coalition in Lebanon:
My sense from afar is that Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and his friends and backers in Tehran are sending a fairly blunt message to the west (whose leaders often [...]
Tags: Ali Khamenei, Beirut, coalition, Hassan Nasrallah, Helena Cobban, iran, King Abdullah, Lebanon, Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabia, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, STL, UN, UN Tribunal
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Does the selection of Iran’s nuclear czar as its new (interim) foreign minister say anything about nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West? We don’t really know, and given that the next round of talks is only a month away, we might not know until news breaks from Istanbul.
Let’s get caught up with Iran: Iranian President [...]
Tags: Ali Akbar Salehi, Ali Khamenei, Ali Larijani, Arash Aramesh, centrifuge, defector, Esfanidar Rahim Mashaie, EU, Farideh Farhi, First Step, fuel swap, Guardian, IAEA, Inside Iran, iran, Jordan, Julian Broder, King Abdullah, Kremlinology, Laura Rozen, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majles, Manucher Mottaki, MIT, Nation, nuclear fuel swap, P5+1, Politico, Robert Dreyfuss, sanctions, travel ban, Trita Parsi, UN, UN Security Council, University of Hawaii, Vienna, Wikileaks
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 18, 2010.
The Wall Street Journal: Soner Cagaptay, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), writes that Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), due to its identity as the defender of “Islamic Civilization,” may have already signaled a rift with NATO [...]
Tags: AKP, Ali Khamenei, Center for American Progress, CIA, dissidents, foreign terror organization, foundation for defense of democracies, iran, Justice and Development Party, Matt Duss, MEK, Michael Ledeen, Michele Bachmann, missile defense shield, NATO, nuclear, Pajamas Media, Pentagon, Robert Gates, Soner Cagaptay, State Dept., Think Progress, Wall Street Journal, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, WINEP, WSJ
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The Washington Times story on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s talk on Tuesday is missing a little something. Specifically, the Times omits any mention of his assessment of the unsavory outcomes of a U.S. military attack on Iran.
Here’s the Times report, by Ben Birnbaum (my emphasis throughout), minus the article’s last two paragraphs about an Iranian air [...]
Tags: Ali Khamenei, Ben Birnbaum, Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Lake, Glenn Kessler, Human Rights Watch, iran, Jerusalem Post, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, New York Sun, Pentagon, Reuters, Robert Gates, sanctions, The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times
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Naval Academy professor John Limbert, the Obama administration’s former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran, paints an interesting, if disquieting, picture of the U.S.’s failed attempts to negotiate with Iran in a preview of his upcoming U.S. Institute of Peace Iran Primer. (Laura Rozen blogged about Limbert on Friday.)
Limbert, who was held in the [...]
Tags: Ali Khamenei, Barack Obama, Iranian Hostage Crisis, John Limbert, Laura Rozen, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Naval Academy, U.S. Institute of Peace, USIP
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Author Hooman Majd, who’s much anticipated second book is due this month, writes today in Foreign Policy that the U.S. sanctions program on Iran isn’t exactly going to plan. This contradicts a central talking point of the Obama administration: that the recent political infighting in Tehran (which has not involved the reform or Green movements) [...]
Tags: Ali Khamenei, Foreign Policy, Hooman Majd, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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