A Modest Proposal Concerning the Rights of the Inhabitants of Persia
May 24th, 2013 | by Peter Jenkins
by Peter Jenkins In 1729, two years after the publication of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Browsing the "Iran sanctions" Tag
NORPAC: The Mission and the Message
May 8th, 2013 | by Marsha B. Cohen
by Marsha B. Cohen Today hundreds of buses packed with what organizers claim are about a thousand citizen advocates departed from
EU Notably Silent after US Sanctions Greek National
March 29th, 2013 | by Guest
If an international agreement is violated and no one makes a sound, did it really happen? by Samuel Cutler A
Recapping Iran Sanctions Logic Ahead of Talks
March 4th, 2013 | by Jasmin Ramsey
by Jasmin Ramsey The following quote from this Washington Post article on last week’s nuclear talks with Iran stood out despite it
All Eyes on Iran for AIPAC 2013 Conference
March 3rd, 2013 | by Mitchell Plitnick
by Mitchell Plitnick The annual Israel-Congress orgy dubbed as the AIPAC Policy Conference kicked off today. It might just as well
Iran’s Economy After Devaluation
February 7th, 2013 | by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Four months after the collapse of the rial earlier this fall, Iran’s economy is still reeling from
Kazakhstan: Astana Registers Diplomatic Boost with Iran Nuclear Talks
February 6th, 2013 | by Guest
by Joanna Lillis When Iranian officials sit down at the negotiating table in Almaty with representatives from six international powers, Kazakhstan
New Sanctions on Iran and Neo-Big Stick Diplomacy
January 22nd, 2013 | by Guest
by Erich C. Ferrari and Samuel Cutler Contained in the Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2013, and signed into law
Who is Responsible for Medicine Shortages in Iran?
January 21st, 2013 | by Farideh Farhi
In an interview with BBC Persian, Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen says that his department’s assessment
Hagel and the Hawks
December 14th, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
Chuck Hagel hasn’t even been nominated for Secretary of Defense and yet rumors abound that he is a frontrunner for the
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