Don’t Worry Yet
photo from Wikimedia Commons In a series of Middle East diplomatic visits last week, Mohamed Morsi made his first official trip as President of Egypt to Saudi Arabia, and Hillary Clinton met with...
View ArticleIran Needs Feminist Sanctions
From Wikimedia Commons “We are a group of Iranian mothers, representing different ethnicities and religions. We are mothers who have spent our youth fighting the dictatorship of the Shah and...
View ArticlePutting Evil in Context
from Wikimedia Commons In the 1970s, the terror group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (People’s Mujahedeen of Iran), or MEK was responsible for political assassinations, bombings, and attempted plane...
View ArticleDavid and Goliath
Image Taken By Israel Defense Force Benjamin Netanyahu’s rather literal interpretation the concept of a “red line” at the United Nations last month puzzled many, but it should draw as much worry as it...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Gamble
by Sida Chen In June of 2013, Iran will elect a successor to its two-term president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It will be the first presidential election to take place since the Green Revolution of 2009,...
View ArticleObama and the Middle East: Round Two
From Wikimedia Commons Reworking the Strategy towards Iran. Netanyahu is becoming infamously impatient, and the reactors keep spinning (despite false claims to the contrary last week; I doubt we’ll...
View ArticleSanctioning Progress
Justin Walker As democracy becomes a lifeless dream for Iranians and the Green Movement becomes a fleeting memory of a brave but futile attempt for change, there seems to be reason, backed up by the...
View ArticleOscars and Nukes
photo from Wikimedia Commons This past Wednesday, Iran and the P5 + 1 (United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany) concluded talks in Kazakhstan to discuss a possible deal to control...
View ArticleWith Arms Wide Open: The Threat of Iranian Arms Trafficking
In February, the United States Navy and Yemeni security forces seized a shipment of allegedly Iranian-made shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles heading to Houthi insurgents in Yemen. Far from a...
View ArticleIran’s New Leader
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran For the United States, 2013 has been a critical year throughout the Middle East. The ongoing Arab Spring has resulted in sudden transformations of the political system...
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