VIEW

Push and Shove

Republicans, Israel and Iran

by Trita Parsi
20-Sep-2011 (18 comments)
The rise of the Arab masses has pushed Iran out of the headlines -- for now. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose theatrics rarely pass unnoticed, has lately failed to grab the attention of the U.S. media. America's attention has instead turned toward Egypt, Syria and Libya. This is likely to change in the next few months. Not as a result of any particular developments in Iran or between the United States and Iran, but because of the 2012 presidential elections>>>

IRANIANS

The same music playing on and on and on

We lack slightest penchant to ever stand up together

by bahmani
18-Sep-2011 (one comment)
Given the current single-minded focus on pure self preservation for pure personal good, over the slightest self sacrifice for the slightest common good, it is unclear when or if Iranians will ever make a collective shift from the nightmare of this Groundhog's Day, and gain true freedom anytime soon. This might finally explain why "I will Survive" is the average Iranian's favorite song. I mean for God's sake, it has been playing in our heads for 2500 years now!>>>

9/11

The Assholes Won

The sad legacy of September 11

by Chris Hedges
14-Sep-2011 (10 comments)
The dead in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania were used to sanctify the state’s lust for war. To question the rush to war became to dishonor our martyrs. Those of us who knew that the attacks were rooted in the long night of humiliation and suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinians, the imposition of our military bases in the Middle East and in the brutal Arab dictatorships that we funded and supported became apostates. We became defenders of the indefensible>>>

MOJAHEDIN

خطر فاجعه

جامعه ی بین المللی باید هرچه سریعتربه وضعیت ساکنان اشرف رسیدگی کند

by Trita Parsi & Dokhi Fassihian
11-Sep-2011 (17 comments)
بنا بر گزارش سازمان تحقیقات رَند، احتمال دارد تا هفتاد درصد از ساکنان اشرف بر خلاف میل خود در این مکان نگهداری شده باشند. سازمان دیده بان حقوق بشر، کارشناسان مستقل ایران و دو لت آمریکا، توانسته اند شیوه های شبه فرقه ای و سوئ رفتارهای این سازمان را مستند کنند. جامعه ی بین المللی باید هرچه سریعتربه وضعیت ساکنان اشرف رسیدگی کند. پنج گام اساسی برای آمریکا، جامعه بین المللی و سازمان مجاهدین خلق برای رفع مشکلات اردوگاه اشرف باید مورد توجه قرار گیرد>>>

AFGHANISTAN

Restoring reason

A prediction borne out by the events of the past decade

by Hossein Shahidi
11-Sep-2011
If the Western nations, whose rational approach to problem solving has been admired by us in the East for so long, were to continue taking actions which would appear irrational, it is quite possible that the newly found love for rationality would also disappear in the East. Were this to happen, the Persian word kheradvarzi could soon give way to a pun. In the Persian script, where the vowels are not written down, kheradvarzi or rationality can easily be read as khar-e door-zi, or a donkey that lives far away>>>

MOJAHEDIN

Gambling with terrorism

Some in U.S paving ground for another round of violence

by Reza Nasri
04-Sep-2011 (41 comments)
If the ultimate goal of delisting the MEK is to create a political entity with military capacity that could come into play when push comes to shove with Iran, then we’re in for yet another foreign policy disaster. If anything, the whole 9/11 ordeal revealed in a spectacular way that enhancing an extremist organization and tactically allying with it in order to gain strategic advantage over a bigger foe is not necessarily the best long-term policy>>>

REALITY

Iran is not a threat

... to the United States

by Jack Hunter
02-Sep-2011 (47 comments)
To say that Iran may get a nuclear weapon and become a potential threat to its neighbors is one thing; to say that it is a threat to the United States is another. Yet too many conservatives continue to confuse the two, or as the former head of the U.S. Central Command retired Army General John Abizaid explained in 2007: "I believe the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran ... Let's face it: We lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with nuclear powers as well.">>>

IDEAS

Iran Owes Mullahs One Government

Kasravi’s apocalyptic prediction came true, with vengeance

by Dariush Gilani
30-Aug-2011 (19 comments)
The title of this article is an exact quote from Ahmad Kasravi, mid 20th century Iranian intellectual. Some scholars have turned this famous quotation around and suggesting that it should be read, “The mullahs always demanded a government from Iran”. Having studied religion to become a mullah himself, Kasravi changed direction of his life and became an ardent critic of the faith and the off shoots of Islam in Iran. For this challenge, Kasravi was stabbed to death by Islamist extremists in 1946>>>

DELIST

Lift Terror Tag

It's time to delist Mojahedin

by Richard R. Schoeberl
30-Aug-2011 (22 comments)
Today, the MEK has strong bipartisan support in both the U.S. House and Senate. The poisonous “terror tag” has been removed by both the United Kingdom and the European Union years ago, yet it remains in place the United States, a naive and inhumane bit of leverage against the Iranian regime, who hate the idea of an organized democratic opposition. Meanwhile, the MEK has provided accurate intelligence to the U.S. regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program and its deadly meddling in Iraq>>>

MOJAHEDIN

Undeserved Attention

The Lobbying that shouldn't be happening

by Paul R. Pillar
30-Aug-2011 (2 comments)
The extraordinary lobbying campaign on behalf of the sometime Marxist/Islamist cult/terrorist group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq is getting waged on ever more fronts. The specific objective is to get the Obama administration to remove the MEK from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. Wherever the money to fund the campaign is coming from, some of the largest expenditures so far have been in the form of fat speaking fees to notables who are willing to accept the check and come out in favor of delisting the group>>>

CHANGE

If people unite

Libya's lesson for Syrians and Iranians

by Ramin Jahanbegloo
28-Aug-2011 (21 comments)
When future generations look back, they will remember 2011 as the year of the end of dictators in the Middle East and the Maghreb. Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi appears to have now joined the Middle East parade of despots rejected by an uprising. Practically nine months after Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted after 23 years of authoritarian rule and the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was thrown out of power by a few weeks of protests in Tahrir Square, Qaddafi is at the end of his reign after 42 years of dictatorship>>>

LIBYA

People Power

Why the rout of Gadhafi undermines the idea of American exceptionalism

by Trita Parsi
28-Aug-2011 (68 comments)
Should President Obama get credit for the imminent fall of the Moammar Gadhafi regime in Libya? Or should President’s George W. Bush’s neoconservative foreign policy be credited? True to form, Washington has boiled the complex issues surrounding the Libya intervention down to a simplistic question. But it’s a false choice. More than anything, Libya -- and the Arab Spring as a whole -- is showing the limited influence of the United States when compared to the power of the people in the region when they take charge of their own destiny>>>

WOMEN

Colossal Inequity

These are not good times to be a woman and live in Iran

by Susan Stanton
25-Aug-2011 (2 comments)
Since the establishment of the Islamic Regime in Iran and a harsh enforcement of “Sharia Law” on the society, women have been the target of colossal inequity. The women of Iran differ from their counterparts in the Middle East; they defy boundaries. While the Parliament of Iran has been the instrument of granting a landslide of sweeping civil, legal, and family rights to men, women have been going door to door to fight for their rights>>>

VIEW

Who to blame?

Political and corporate dictators

by Mohammad Ala
23-Aug-2011 (15 comments)
All the unrests in the Middle East part of Asia and Africa demonstrate that Western governments and corporate economic dictators can only keep a lid on news and support of political dictators for so long before oppressed people get fed up with their situation and demand a change. This raises the question who should one blame, Western governments, political dictators or the corporate economic dictators who control the natural resources?>>>

MOJAHEDIN

Radical by Nature

The MEK will never become a moderate political force

by Reza Nasri
20-Aug-2011 (48 comments)
The presumption that the MEK would transform itself into a “moderate” political group if delisted is flawed. The MEK did not become “radical” as a result of being “listed” as a terrorist organization in 1997. It was an extremist group way before that date. What fuels its radicalism and taste for terrorism is not how it is termed by the State Department or the nature of its relationship with the U.S, but its fanatical ideology, pugnacious discourse, undemocratic structure, leadership, mission and agenda>>>
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