International Affairs Forum

Wed. December 07, 2022

Social Media: Middle East/Caucasus: Middle East: Iran

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UN Urges US-Iran Dialogue

Mohamed El-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency attempts to encourage the prospect of dialogue between the two states concerning Iran's developing nuclear program. (Melbourne Herald... Read More...

Iran warns US against making

Iran on Sunday warned the United States against any attack attempt, saying any aggressive maneuvers against Iran would be a great strategic mistake. Read More...

US Export to Iran; Regulations and Fact sheets (till 2003)

Cheney Says Israel Might 'Act First' on Iran

In an interview with Don Imus, the Vice President outlines the prospect of Israeli action against Iran. By David E. Sanger. (New York Times, 1/21/2005) Read More...

Cheney Says Iran Tops List of Trouble Spots

Vice President Dick Cheney said on Thursday that Iran was at the top of the administration's list of world trouble spots and expressed concern that Israel "might well decide to act first" to eliminate... Read More...

Iran Regime-Change Talk Revives in Washington

A US advocacy group dominated by Republican Party stalwarts is trying to revive the idea of regime change in Iran. A recent policy paper issued by the group, The Committee on the Present Danger, urges... Read More...

Mideast Overtures - Iran's Domestic Crisis: Its Youth

An impending danger is haunting Iran. While an intense debate, both domestic and international, has been carried out in the past year over the Iranian nuclear program, another issue that merits even m... Read More...

We Need a Real Iran Policy

Citing President Bush's recent statement that we have "sanctioned ourselves out of influence with Iran," the author wonders if the president hasn't tacitly accepted a nuclear Iran. By Susan E. Rice. (... Read More...

Whither the Persian-Jewish alliance?

There is a romantic suggestiveness to the relations between Persians and Jews that has survived the hostility between Iran and Israel. Today, the same forces that once brought the two together are fue... Read More...

Freedom in Farsi blogs

Tens of thousands of Iranians have embraced weblogs as a way to access the forbidden and challenge the sanctioned. (Guardian, 12/20/2004) Read More...

Revolution Redux

The author, an Iranian exile, recalls the heady days of revolution in Iran 25 years ago and wonders if the Ukraine will realize its dream of democracy. By Roya Hakakian. (Washington Post, 12/20/2004) Read More...

How to Approach Iran

Madeleine Albright and seven former foreign ministers propose a course for Europe and the US in dealing with Iran. By Madeleine Albright, et al. (Washington Post, 12/13/2004) Read More...

Iran's conservatives seen tightening power in republic

After eight years of a bold but bungled experiment with reform, Iran's government is in the throes of a takeover by conservatives determined to restore the revolution's Islamic purity, according to Ir... Read More...

It All Started in Tehran

When the Americans go to the polls on Tuesday they would do well to remember two events that have altered their lives forever. The first was the raid on the US Embassy in Tehran, and the seizure of Am... Read More...

Iran's Conservatives Consolidate Power

Critics fear reform movement will be shut down, restrictions broadened. By Robin Wright. (Washington Post, 11/29/2004) Read More...

Engage Iran

By David Ignatius. (Washington Post, 11/26/2004) Read More...

U.S. Is Needed to Defuse Iran

The new agreement worked out between Iran and Germany, France and Britain could be the first step toward solving the problem of Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear weapons capability, but there is sti... Read More...

Lion of Iranian Politics May Return for Run at Presidency

Famed for his political cunning and Cheshire cat grin, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is on the verge of a political comeback. By Robin Wright. (Washington Post, 11/16/2004) Read More...

Adapting to Contemporary Interpretations of Islam

Is Islamic law compatible with democracy and human rights? One of Iran’s best-known reformist clerics has an answer to this question – an answer that challenges Islamic orthodoxy. Journalist Bahman Ni... Read More...

Buying Time in Tehran

Discusses Iranian economy. By Afshin Molavi. (Iranian Voice, 11/1/2004) Read More...

Lack of democracy breeds terror

An open letter from leading pro-democracy Iranian intellectuals to American intellectuals on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. (9/28/2004) Read More...

The Iran Problem Awaiting Bush or Kerry

While Tehran's unprecedented "endorsement" of President Bush raised some eyebrows this week, Iran hasn’t been much of an issue in the Presidential campaign. But as international efforts to confront th... Read More...

The dangers of playing hardball with Iran

The month of November in a US presidential-election year is not supposed to be particularly eventful, but this year may be an exception, in the light of the gathering storm over Iran's nuclear program... Read More...

Iran's Unemployment Crisis

Stubborn, double-digit, unemployment is currently the Islamic Republic’s most acute single economic concern. The challenge is formidable not only because of unemployment’s debilitating impact on the e... Read More...

Showdown over Iranian nukes

Dicusses the intricacies of the dispute over the Iranian nuclear program. By Ian Bremmer. (International Herald Tribune, 9/14/2004) Read More...

Wrong Strategy On Iran

Argues that to defuse Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. should pursue not Bush's unilateralism or Bush's critics' multilateralism, but a bilateral agreement with Iran. By Ray Takeyh. (Washington Post, ... Read More...

Russian FM welcomes Israeli cooperation on terror

Israeli newspaper reports co-operation and support to Russia in light of recent terrorist attacks. Also discusses foreign policy issues between the two states. (Haaretz International, 9/6/04) Read More...

An interim N-freeze for N. Korea, Iran

Submits that interim steps to nuclear disarmament are crucial to acheive a long term solution in North Korea and Iran. By Daniel Poneman. (Boston Globe, 7/7/2004) Read More...

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