Was Iran Engagement Serious? (Con't)
The Iran-grand-bargainers, the Leveretts, have an interesting piece up challenging the notion that the Barack Obama administration was ever serious about engaging Iran. (Because I’m behind on my...
View ArticleIranian Geopolitics after the Arab Spring
Trita Parsi and Reza Marashi have an article in the Cairo Review of Global Affairs on the Arab Spring as seen from what they consider to be the perspective of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their...
View Article"Things do not have to be this way" between the U.S. and Iran
Writing in the New York Times, a former state department member who worked on Iran during the Bush administration, Reza Marashi, explains the U.S.’s real Iran problem: too much emphasis on intelligence...
View ArticleMisperceptions and Provocations Rule U.S.-Iran Relations
Former Bush administration staffer, Reza Marashi, writes about the Iranian-American game of chicken in the National Interest: Both Iran and the United States are playing an extremely dangerous game...
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“Shared Myth: The status quo U.S.-Iran cold war is sustainable”
via Lobe Log Former Iran-desk State Department staffer Reza Marashi and Iran scholar Reza Sanati write that after more than 3 decades of “institutionalized enmity”, damaging myths perpetuated by both...
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Is sanctions relief really on the table?
via Lobe Log The Guardian is reporting that a ”reformulated” proposal including “limited sanctions relief” will be launched by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (p5+1)...
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On what a Second-Term President Obama should do with Iran
via Lobe Log George Washington Political Science Professor Mark Lynch in Foreign Policy: With military action in the background but not imminent, and sanctions taking a real political and economic toll...
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Iran and the United States: Ready, set, go?
via Lobe Log Former Iran-desk State Department staffer Reza Marashi and journalist Sahar Namazikhah remind us that Iran’s influnetial Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has publicly...
View ArticleIran Daily Talking Points
via Lobe Log Zbigniew Brzezinski, Iran should be key topic at hearings: The former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter urges the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to include a...
View ArticleIran and US Talk Tough Ahead of Geneva
via LobeLog by Jasmin Ramsey On Saturday Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who now heads the country’s nuclear negotiating file, said Iran expects a new proposal from the 6-world power p5+1...
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