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Alastair Crooke, the founder of the Conflicts Forum in Lebanon, has a Iran-occupied-Lebanon-scare rebuttal on Race For Iran that is well worth the read. His thesis is one of a grand awakening in the world’s non-elites, but am not sure the idea deserves the profound “deeper significance” he gives it.
Nonetheless, his myth-busting, based on his [...]
Tags: Alastair Crooke, Beirut, Condoleezza Rice, Conflicts Forum, Hezbollah, iran, israel, Lebanon, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Race For Iran, Tony Blair
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W. Scott Harrop has an interesting piece on the Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs. In “Obama’s Iran Policy: Mutual Respect Matters,” (pdf), he traces President Barack Obama’s rhetoric about mutual respect with Iran, starting from the campaign, through the famous Norouz message, and up to the present.
Harrop, a faculty expert on Iran at the University of Virginia, also [...]
Tags: biting, Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mutual respect, pressure, Ruhollah Khomeini, sanctions, Scott Harrop, threats, University of Virginia
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Author Hooman Majd did a web chat with scholar Reza Aslan on the latter’s website. They’re discussing Majd’s lastest book, The Ayatollah’s Democracy: An Iranian Challenge. I’m reading it right now. You should be, too.
Incredibly well connected in Iran, Majd is one of the country’s most astute analysts and a great story teller.
For the last [...]
Tags: Aslan Media, Green Movement, Hooman Majd, iran, israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Reza Aslan, sanctions, The Ayatollah's Democracy, U.S.
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Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel blog has published an article I’ve written on the ongoing holdup of U.S. military aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon last week showcased both the increasing importance of empowering the LAF and the deep misunderstanding and impatience exhibited by those in Washington [...]
Tags: Eli Clifton, Foreign Policy, Hezbollah, iran, israel, LAF, Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanon, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East Channel, military aid, Shia, Sunni, Syria
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This is a guest post from Beirut by Marc J. Sirois, a writer and the former managing editor of the Daily Star newspaper in the Lebanese capital.
The run-up to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Lebanon called forth a barrage of comment from neoconservative circles. Unlike the savvy campaign for war in Iraq, however, [...]
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We’ve been writing a lot here about the hyperventilation of hawks about Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to Lebanon. Even the U.S. government got in on the action, asking Lebanon to not host the visiting Iranian dignitary.
For a more level-headed perspective of the trip, check out Adam Shatz’s post at the blog of the London Review [...]
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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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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded to offers for talks from the P5+1 group over the weekend. Ahmadinejad said that he was willing to talk if the group– the five permanent members of the security council plus Germany — are willing to make mention of Israel’s clandestine nuclear program.
The Washington Post reports, via AP’s Nasser Karimi:
TEHRAN, Iran [...]
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Laura Rozen and Reuters are reporting that the P5+1 — the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany — have invited Iran to resume talks over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
The invitation is for talks to be held in Vienna for three days in mid-November, according to a statement from the [...]
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An exiled top legal aide to former Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi told an opposition website that the Green movement is against United Nations sanctions because they have an adverse impact on ordinary Iranians.
“The international community must not punish [Iranian] workers, teachers and deprived sectors of the Iranian nation,” Ardeshir Amir-Arjomand told Kaleme, an [...]
Tags: Ardeshir Amir-Arjomand, Benjamin Weinthal, Desmond Tutu, Enduring America, foundation for defense of democracies, Green Movement, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mark Dubowitz, Mir Hossein Mousavi, sanctions
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