Old habits are difficult to break. After years of almost singularly focusing on the nuclear issue, the west has been slow to react to the

Only a few weeks after US-Iran diplomacy began in earnest, it seems to be heading towards a premature ending. Rather than tensions reduction, the world

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes to the UN his biggest fear will be that the visit will be marred by international condemnations over election fraud and

Tehran’s sentencing of Roxana Saberi to eight years of prison for spying has shocked people inside and outside the country. At a time when President

In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to have told President Barack Obama that either America

Iran’s former President, the soft-spoken Mohammad Khatami, ended months of speculations and revealed his bid to challenge the current Iranian President – the not-so-soft-spoken Mahmoud

In talking about the assault on Gaza, neo-conservative pundits and Israeli hardliners have relied on a familiar frame. The fighting in Gaza, they say, is

Change often occurs at a faster pace than people can comprehend. That is certainly the case with the quickly shifting political realities in Washington on

Ever since Iran publicised its nuclear fuel cycle plans in 2003, western experts have tried to downplay its rate of progress in nuclear engineering. The

In this guest post on Tony Karon’s excellent blog, the Rootless Cosmopolitan (Tony is senior editor at TIME.com), I write about the subtle shifts taking

The Bush administration inherited many of Iraq’s problems when it invaded that country, including an Iranian terrorist organization funded and armed by Saddam Hussein, the

You may be surprised at the answer; there are already over 205 cosponsors of H.Con.Res. 362. Is yours one? This bill calls on the president

Google has a funny way of doing business — one that involves muddying politics in the Middle East. In recent months, the organization has taken

The human rights situation in Iran is getting drastically worse. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch report that executions in Iran – including instances of

Treacherous Alliance The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, (Yale University Press). by Trita Parsi Excerpt As similar as Israelis and Iranians

Treacherous Alliance The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, (Yale University Press). by Trita Parsi Excerpt There are few Western cities where

For more than 14 years, Israel has been the primary force countering Iran's nuclear advances. Though Israel presents the prospect of a nuclear Iran as

I simply don't know where to begin. I must admit that the original purpose of my writing a review of Oliver Stone's movie “Alexander” was

The disposition towards dogma is as common of a feature of humanity today as it was 2,000 years ago. The anonymous writer Persia Lover lends

On December 13, 2003, US soldiers caught Saddam Hussein in a small underground hiding place outside of Tikrit. Immediately, speculations erupted on whether Saddam would

DreamWorks new movie for the holiday season, House of Sand and Fog, based on Andre Dubus III bestselling novel with the same title, is poised

Email interview with Trita Parsi, Acting President of the newly-formed National Iranian-American Council and Shadi Sadeghi, a NIAC volunteer. Parsi is a Ph.D. student at