The leaked video shows a huge, powerfully armed convoy headed from Lebanon to Al Quysar with Obama's blessing, assuming you see cries of "Please stop!" as tantamount to endorsement. Arab government and those of France and England need to watch this video and then tell the craven Obama and his clueless secretary of state to get lost. https://ww ... Continue reading »
Amirahmadi discussed his close relations with almost all of Iran's senior government officials as well as his strong association with senior U.S. officials through AIC, saying he has worked with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, current Secretary of State John Kerry and former Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering. Amirahmad ... Continue reading »
In 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, at the urging of the British M16, overthrew democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. In a declassified report completed in 1954 on the 1953 operation, the term "blowback" for the first time entered the CIA’s lexicon.
At the time, analysts were concerned that the U.S. governme ... Continue reading »
To maintain the illusion of some prospect for progress in nuclear diplomacy with Tehran, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will meet with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, in Istanbul next week. Purportedly, Ashton will see if the P5+1 dialogue with Iran can be put back on track after yet another round of nuclear tal ... Continue reading »
Trita Parsi clarifies why it is so difficult for Washington and Tehran to engage in dialogue and gives Obama advice on how to handle the current stalemate.
YME: In your latest book A single roll of the dice, which came out last year, you challenge the narrative that all diplomatic means have been explored - is there still time for diplomacy t ... Continue reading »
How would you describe Iran’s current geopolitical status in the region?
I think there are three competing paradigms for power and influence in today’s Middle East: resistance Islam (led by Iran), sectarian/Sunni Islam (led by Saudi Arabia), and modern Islam (led by Turkey). Iran’s paradigm resonates most when popular anger and frustration in the ... Continue reading »
(Daniel Pipes hoped to destroy the National Iranian American Council. His plan backfired: AP) The war over war with Iran has many battlefronts. Inside Washington, the battle line is between a small coalition of peace and security, non-proliferation and religious groups opposing war and favoring a peaceful solution to the stand off with Iran, and ... Continue reading »
Is America at war with Islam? The question began to be asked when the first evidence emerged of the transfer of hundreds of innocent Muslims to Guantanamo and the despotic new order that permitted indefinite detention of suspects. The investigations in Iraq led by David Kay and Charles Duelfer established that our war against weapons of mass destru ... Continue reading »
One of President Obama’s greatest “accomplishments” has been creating fissures within the antiwar/progressive community in the United States by talking like a progressive politician, but acting in most cases as a conservative one. Consider, for example, his domestic policy. It has helped Wall Street far more than anything the President is willing t ... Continue reading »
This eminently Bushist Obama "red line" business, applied to Syria, Iran or both, is becoming a tad ridiculous. Take Pentagon head Chuck Hagel's tour of Israel and the "friendly" GCC (the de facto Gulf Counter-revolution Club) last week. US defense contractors had the Moet flowing as Hagel merrily congregated with that prodigy of democracy -- Unit ... Continue reading »
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