Time for an Iranian Reset
By Robert Joseph
Posted on NationalReview on June 03, 2013
June may prove to be a critical month in determining the outcome of Iran’s nuclear program and the future of the theocratic regime itself. This week, the IAEA Board of Governors will convene, and on June 14, Iran will hold its presidential election (with a possible runoff one week later).
What to make of Rafsanjanis disqualification
By ALIREZA JAFARZADEH, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- The Iranian regimes presidential election, which is scheduled for June 14, took several dramatic turns last week when the Guardian Council disqualified former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had surprised everyone by standing in for the elections.
The Perils Of Religious Persecution In Iran
by Doug BandowPosted on Forbes on May 13, 2013
The Islamic Republic of Iran often is in the news, and usually for all the wrong reasons. Tehran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons, though U.S. intelligence agencies see no evidence of an active nuclear weapons program. Iran also has a deteriorating human rights record.
Iran unleashed, unbowed
by Jennifer RubinPosted on Washingtonpost on April 23, 2013
One of the Obama administration talking points is that it has weakened and isolated the Iranian regime. Aside from the economic beating Iran has taken, there really isn’t any evidence that has come about.
Iran Can't Agree to a Damn Thing
By Patrick ClawsonPosted on The Washington Institute on Feb 20, 2013
During the chaotic days of Iran's Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the country's emerging "supreme leader," assured Iranians that their supposed oppressor, the United States, would not be able to put the hated shah back on his throne. "America can't do a damn thing against us," he inveighed, a winning line that became the uprising's unofficial slogan. It's a catchphrase Iran has deployed time and again since, most recently in a taunting billboard along the Iran-Iraq border and in a banner hung in front of a captured American drone (though hilariously, in the latter case, the hapless banner-makers mistranslated the phrase as "America Can Do No Wrong").
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