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Ayatollah Machiavelli

Nobody has ever confused Niccolo Machiavelli with an Islamic revolutionary — but he certainly knew a thing or two about revolutions. The Florentine political philosopher

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The Show is Over

While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demagoguery and Holocaust revisionism on the world stage have earned him alarmist comparisons to Adolf Hitler, his recent, ignoble fall

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Moodle East

In the early years of the Cold War, in an effort to simplify — and parody — various political ideologies and philosophies, irreverent wits, in

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Tehran Trembles

IN “Garden of the Brave in War,” his classic memoir of life on a pomegranate farm in 1960s Iran, the American writer Terence O’Donnell recounts

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Soviet Republic of Iran

For three decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has bedeviled the United States, resisting both incentives and disincentives and working all the while to foil

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Revolutionary rot

Even before last year’s post-election tumult, it was palpable to almost anyone who had spent serious time in Iran that revolutionary rot had set in

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Repercussions far and wide

As Israel contemplates military action to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it is essential to take a closer look at Iran’s most powerful man – Supreme

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Before the quake

A Testament After I left Iran I always recalled Bam fondly. I dreamed of one day taking my family and friends to meet Bam's gracious

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