Iran::Articles

Afrooz Mahdavi
The Nation - August, 2011
Contrary to public perceptions outside Iran, Iran's Green Movement is alive and well and more popular than ever, even as mass repression has forced movement activists to assume a largely underground existence. From the winter of 2010, when it became too dangerous to demonstrate publicly, to this past winter, when the movement again made a large showing in the streets, its considerable energies were redeployed in the cyber sphere - mostly in internal debates about strategy and tactics - and in individual acts of defiance, like graffiti-writing and campus activism.
Marc Lyncy
Center for a New American Security - May, 2011
The wave of uprisings that have rocked the Arab world will have dramatic consequences for America's strategy toward Iran. Arguments rage over whether the upheavals have strengthened or weakened Iran, Tehran's role in sparking or exploiting the turbulence, how new regimes in key Arab states might interact with the Islamic Republic, and if the wave of protests might reach Iran itself.
Haleh Esfandiari
New York Review of Books - March, 2011
We are witnessing today the intensification of the post-election crackdown, perhaps the severest the country has experienced since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. This campaign is aimed not only at the usual dissidents among the intelligentsia, political activists, students, and journalists, but also at men once considered regime insiders.
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - October, 2010
Assuming Ahmadinejad's trip to Lebanon goes as planned and without any major hitches, it could go a long way in improving Iran's relations with the entire Arab world, which is somewhat weary of Tehran's politics of "sphere of influence" in Iraq and Lebanon, among other countries.
Geneive Abdo
The Middle East Channel - October, 2010
Rather than purse talks over Iran's broader nuclear program and risk failure -- during a period when there appears to be little time to waste before either a military attack is launched against Iran or Iran develops the technology to produce a nuclear weapon -- a wiser move would be to talk with Iran first over the Tehran Declaration as a way of building trust.
Marc Lynch
The Middle East Channel - Foreign Policy - September, 2010
Eventually, as with Iraq, the choices may well narrow sufficiently and the perception of impending threat mount so that a President -- maybe Obama, maybe Palin, maybe anyone else -- finds him or herself faced with "no choice" but to move towards war. "Keeping Tehran in a Box" is not a pretty scenario, nor one which I think anyone especially wants, but it seems the most likely path unless better "off-ramps" are developed to avert it.
Gary Sick
Blog - September, 2010
The key question about Iran today is not whether it will be attacked or collapse under sanctions. It is whether Iran is capable under its present leadership to take a sober decision about how to deal with the outside world.
Tony Karon
Tom Dispatch - August, 2010
Paul Rogers
Oxford Research Group - August, 2010
Arang Keshavarzian
The Middle East Channel - Foreign Policy - July, 2010
Mohammad Maljoo
MERIP - June, 2010
Trita Parsi
The Middle East Channel - May, 2010
Duran Parsi
Foreign Policy in Focus - February, 2010
Trita Parsi
Foreign Policy - February, 2010
Haleh Esfandiari
New York Review of Books - January, 2010
Dilip Hiro
Asia Times - January, 2010
Robin Wright
LA Times - January, 2010
Gary Sick
The Daily Beast - January, 2010
The Revolution Will Be Mercantilized
The National Interest - December, 2009
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
MERIP - December, 2009
Gary Sick
The Daily Beast - December, 2009
James Dobbins
The Washington Quarterly - December, 2009
Farideh Farhi
MERIP Middle East Report - December, 2009
Scott Peterson
Christian Science Monitor - December, 2009
Nazanin Shahrokni
MERIP, Middle East Report - November, 2009
Hillary Mann Leverett
Foreign Policy - October, 2009
Anonymous
New York Review of Books - October, 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - October, 2009
Claire Messud
New York Review of Books - October, 2009
Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment - October, 2009
Tony Karon
The National - October, 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - September, 2009
Scott Ritter
The Guardian - September, 2009
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
New York Times - September, 2009
Gary Sick
The Daily Beast - September, 2009
Farideh Farhi
MERIP Middle East Report - September, 2009
Muhammad Sahimi
Tehran Bureau - September, 2009
Ray Takeyh
Council on Foreign Relations - September, 2009
Nayereh Tohidi
Informed Comment - September, 2009
Majid Mohammadi
National Democratic Institute - September, 2009
Roger Cohen
New York Review of Books - August, 2009
Trita Parsi
Foreign Policy - July, 2009
Roger Cohen
New York Times - July, 2009
Roger Cohen
New York Review of Books - July, 2009
The Nation
Robert Dreyfuss - July, 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - July, 2009
Kaveh Ehsani, Arang Keshavarzian and Norma Claire Moruzzi
MERIP Middle East Report - June, 2009
Rasmus Christian Elling
CUMINet - June, 2009
Malise Ruthven
NY Review of Books - June, 2009
Shiva Balaghi
MERIP Middle East Report - June, 2009
International Crisis Group - June, 2009
Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment - June, 2009
Frederic Wehrey, David E. Thaler, Nora Bensahel et al
Rand Corp - May, 2009
Reuven Pedatzur
Haaretz - May, 2009
Geneive Abdo
Iran Election Bulletin - April, 2009
Ephraim Kam
Mideast Peace Pulse - March, 2009
Daniel Brumberg
Washington Post - March, 2009
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment Global Affairs - March, 2009
Azam Khatam
MERIP Middle East Report - March, 2009
Ervand Abrahamian
MERIP Middle East Report - March, 2009
MERIP Middle East Report - March, 2009
Rasmus Christian Elling
CUMINet - February, 2009
Middle East Institute - January, 2009
William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, Jim Walsh
New York Review of Books - January, 2009
Michael Fischer
PBS - January, 2009
Hooman Majd
Foreign Policy - January, 2009
Rasmus Christian Elling
CUMINet - December, 2008
Bradley L. Bowman
Council on Foreign Relations - December, 2008
F Gregory Gause
The National - November, 2008
Nikki Keddie
World Policy Journal - November, 2008
Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment - October, 2008
Trita Parsi
Rootless Cosmopolitan - October, 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Foreign Policy in Focus - October, 2008
Flynt Leverett
New America Foundation - October, 2008
Akbar Ganji
Foreign Affairs - October, 2008
International Atomic Energy Agency - September, 2008
William O. Beeman
Foreign Policy in Focus - August, 2008
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline Shire
Institute for Science and International Security - August, 2008
William O. Beeman
Foreign Policy in Focus - August, 2008
John Brennan
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science - July, 2008
William O. Beeman
Foreign Policy in Focus - July, 2008
Seymour Hersh
The New Yorker - July, 2008
Thomas Powers
New York Review of Books - July, 2008
Nir Rosen
The Washington Note - May, 2008
Abbas Milani
Boston Review - April, 2008
Wendy Kristianasen
Le Monde Diplomatique - April, 2008
John Kelly and Bruce Etling
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School - April, 2008
Gary Sick, Trita Parsi, Chas Freeman, Barbara Slavin, Ray Takeyh
Middle East Policy - April, 2008
Patrick Disney and Danny Hosein
Foreign Policy in Focus - April, 2008
Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment - March, 2008
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - March, 2008
Gareth Porter
Asia Times - March, 2008
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - March, 2008
William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, and Jim Walsh
New York Review of Books - February, 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Foreign Policy in Focus - February, 2008
Farideh Farhi
Global Affairs Blog - February, 2008
International Atomic Energy Agency - February, 2008
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - February, 2008
Rostam Pourzal
Foreign Policy in Focus - February, 2008
Seymour Hersh
New Yorker - February, 2008
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - February, 2008
Marc Lynch
Abu Aardvark Blog - January, 2008
General Accounting Office - January, 2008
Max Rodenbeck
New York Review of Books - January, 2008
Marc Lynch
Christian Science Monitor - January, 2008
Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh
Foreign Affairs - December, 2007
Djavad Salehi-Isfehani and Daniel Egel
Brookings Wolfensohn Center - December, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment: Global Affairs - December, 2007
Trita Parsi
Antiwar.com - December, 2007
Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh
Real Clear Politics - December, 2007
Cara Ong
Foreign Policy in Focus - December, 2007
Carah Ong
MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project - November, 2007
Director General
IAEA - November, 2007
National Intelligence Council
- November, 2007
Maziar Bahari
Newsweek - November, 2007
Trita Parsi
The Nation - November, 2007
Omid Memarian
Open Democracy - October, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment: Global Affairs - October, 2007
Nasrin Alavi
Open Democracy - October, 2007
Haleh Esfandiari and Robert S. Litwak
Chronicle of Higher Education - October, 2007
John H. Richardson
Esquire - October, 2007
Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker - October, 2007
Peter Galbraith
New York Review of Books - October, 2007
Trita Parsi and Ervand Abrahamian
Democracy Now - September, 2007
Martin van Creveld
Jewish Daily Forward - September, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment Global Affairs - September, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment Global Affairs - September, 2007
Paul Rogers
Oxford Research Group - February, 2006