The National Security Network has issued another of their short, timely reports. And this one starts out by dispelling some hyperventilation about Iran starting to load nuclear fuel into its power plant at Bushehr, which is operating under IAEA safeguards. Über-hawk… Continue Reading
News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 26, 2010: Politico: Laura Rozen reports on Dennis Ross‘, a top Obama adviser on Iran and the peace process, presentation to an AIPAC conference earlier this week. Ross addressed the administration’s efforts to… Continue Reading
Handicapping the Global Midterms Winners and Losers By Tom Engelhardt Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com You can’t turn on the TV news or pick up a paper these days without stumbling across the latest political poll and the pros explaining how… Continue Reading
Sami Ramadani, a professor at London Metropolitan University who fled Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, writes that Iranian influence in Iraq is ‘highly exaggerated’. These overstated allegations, he implies, are especially rich coming from the United States, which Ramadani calls “the foremost foreign influence”… Continue Reading
The 1953 Iranian coup, which overthrew the democratically elected Mohammad Mossadeq and replaced him with the Shah, still stands out as one of the oft repeated tales of CIA swashbuckling in exotic lands during the early years of the Cold… Continue Reading