Category Archives: Iran

Necessary Concessions by Iran in Negotiations

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Muller

Usual suspect David Albright, founder and president of ISIS, the Washington-based think tank Institute of Science and International Security, has been testified against Iran before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on “Reversing Iran’s Nuclear Program: Understanding Iran’s Nuclear Program and … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Iranians

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Muller

President Barack Obama proudly informed us that he had a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani yesterday. It seems as if the two are becoming friendly. An earlier attempt of quoting Iranian poet Sa’adi (d. 1291 or 1292) … Continue reading →

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Rouhani, Obama Both Liars?

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Muller

David Albright and Christina Walrond at the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) make the point, in a recent piece on ISIS’ webpage, that new elected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, in a series of overtures to the United States … Continue reading →

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The Damavand Site

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Muller

Recently taken off the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist organizations Iranian Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) has once again claimed another secret nuclear site in Iran. According to Reuters, it is located 10 km east of the village of Damavand, some … Continue reading →

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Absolutely Not Expected

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Muller

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is of course smart, too. Hassan Rouhani’s victory was inevitable. At 50.7% it would have been a so often exercised easy task to give clandestine orders to the Interior Ministry to round down his … Continue reading →

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