News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for February 12-14: The Washington Post: On her “Right Turn” blog, Jennifer Rubin asks “Will Obama now reverse course on Iran?” “We should re-evaluate the ongoing, useless talks with the Iranian regime on its nuclear… Continue Reading
The U.S. State Department has set up a Twitter account where it tweets messages in Farsi, a press officer from Foggy Bottom confirmed to LobeLog. As of writing this, there are three tweets so far from the “USAdarFarsi” twitter feed.… Continue Reading
The Iranian opposition movement, having gone underground since the 2009 crackdown, appears to be trying to leverage the successes (thus far) of the Egyptian protest movement into a breath of fresh air for their own aspirations. The Iranian authorities are… Continue Reading
Much like the promotion of the Clarion Fund’s previous films —“Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” and “The Third Jihad”— the film’s producers have found Fox News to be a reliable partner in asking softball questions to Clarion Fund… Continue Reading
From An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Square One Palestinian’s Odyssey in a Middle East Ablaze By Jen Marlowe Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com As pro-democracy demonstrations sweep across the Middle East, ousting dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, many in the… Continue Reading