Category Archives: Iran

Calculated Talk

Washington’s most provocative, well, mouthpiece of the Iranian regime, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, had an impressive performance last night in Charlie Rose’s show (who has interviewed the Iranian president Ahmadinejad four three times) at PBS. Flynt Leverett directs the … Continue reading

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Containment

“Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision is made to do so.” This seems to be the current valid formulation about the country’s nuclear program. The rulers of … Continue reading

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An Upcoming War in the Middle East?

According to a recent study presented by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a Washington D.C.-based, bipartisan foreign policy think tank, “[T]here is a suspicion in the West that Iran wants to start an open ended dialog and negotiations … Continue reading

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The Children of Adam

In order to win the hearts of the Iranian people and the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, President Obama, in his last year’s video message on the occasion of Nowruz 1388, quoted from great Persian poet Sa’adi’s Gulistan … Continue reading

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Bothersome

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai in Kabul as “certainly bothersome”. The two former politicians came up short, which is a pity. Gates, who had visited a military base … Continue reading

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