It shouldn’t come as a surprise, of course. And my biased and surely predictable perspective is that the hawkish right is using the current events in Iran to criticize the Obama Administration for appeasing or legitimizing the oppressive regime there.
And there has been no shortage of critics. On Friday, Charles Krauthammer could not have been [...]
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Iran as a Propaganda Tool in American Politics
Posted in Iran, Politics on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Maziar Bahari
Posted in Iran on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The same contact that has provided me with the Facebook updates I’ve posted here tells me that his associate is also a friend of Maziar Bahari, a Newsweek reporter who has been detained in Iran.
Newsweek reported yesterday evening:
Among the dozens of people arrested overnight in Tehran was NEWSWEEK reporter Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran [...]
Another Personal Account From Iran
Posted in Iran on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The same 3rd hand source as in the post below:
Iran June 20, 2009 – a friend’s account
We went today, all the routes were closed but we made it to about a km away from revolution square but at every intersection they had riot police dispersing us, wouldn’t let us get through.
We managed to get some [...]
Children Among the Goons
Posted in Iran on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday afternoon Nico Pitney posted an email he received from a contact in Iran:
You couldn’t imagin what I saw tonight, I walked down many streets(Vali asr, keshavars, amir abad, Fatemi, Shademan, Satarkhan, Khosro), and I was injured by tears gas, but the main thing : The big killer group, called “Basij”, weared our special military [...]
International Solidarity
Posted in Freedom, Iran on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few photos making the rounds on Twitter:
A Hat Tip to Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney
Posted in Iran on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was his 6th consecutive day of live blogging the Iranian election fallout. He’s been invaluable in assembling order to the chaotic stream of information coming thorugh. Earlier he linked an excerpt from a Council on Foreign Relations interview with Carnegie Endowment Iran analyst Karim Sadjadpour:
The weight of the world now rests on [...]
Iran
Posted in Iran on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The post-election events in Iran are probably the primary inspiration for my renewed interest in putting my thoughts in print. Much has happened, leaving an awful lot to digest. Andrew Sullivan’s work in has been simply tremendous. In fact his first post on the topic, published over a week before the election, [...]
Obama to House Dems: If Sanctions Fail, Israel Will Likely Strike Iran
Posted in Iran, Israel, Middle East, tagged iran, Israel on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From ABC’s Political Punch Blog
Obama told the caucus, according to an attendee, “Nobody said this to me directly but I get the feeling from my talks that if the sanctions don’t work Israel is going to strike Iran.”
I think an Israeli strike has been seen for some time as the most likely playout of events, [...]
The White House Turnaround on Diplomacy with Iran
Posted in Iran, Middle East, Politics on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It must be very rare to see such a White House stark position shift in such a short period of time. It was mid-May when, at the Knesset for Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration, President Bush discussed the notion of diplomacy with “terrorists and radicals”
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, [...]
