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Six simple propositions

No one can say with confidence what the Iranian leaders have in mind. Do they have ambitions to enrich weapons grade uranium or are they

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When a cartoon is not a cartoon

Last September Jyllands-Posten, a Danish conservative daily, published twelve cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.  The cartoons were the paper’s response to a Danish author’s complaint that

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Judging Saddam

In a quiet neighborhood of the Tajrish district of Tehran, on the foothills of the Alborz Mountains, a green thirty-thousand-square-feet sanatorium hosts hundreds of veterans

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Democracy, Iranian Style

Thomas Frank opened his What’s the Matter with Kansas, 2004, with a piercing sentence: “America is always in a state of quasi-civil war: on the

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About

On July 20, 2004, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) introduced the Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2004, a legislation promoting the transformation of the Islamic

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Disturbing opportunism

Recently, two statements on the necessity and urgency of fundamental political change in Iran have been distributed via the internet. The first is authored by

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