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Written by Ali Fatemi
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
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Washington, DC - Events
of the last few months in Iran indicate
that her dark days are numbered. On December 27th, on the occasion of
Ashura,
the most holy day of Islam's Shiite branch, hundreds of thousands of
Iranians
poured onto the streets of major Iranian cities. Crowds angry at the
regime
buttressed the ranks of mourners commemorating the death of Prophet
Mohammad's
grandson. Seeking the safety, and the sanctity, of the occasion, they
had come
out to vent against the tyranny of a morally corrupt regime bent on its
own survival at all costs. However, the regime was prepared to squelch
the protesters, and YouTube is not littered with graphic videos of the
mayhem that followed. These amount to what can be considered an
allegory of the death of the regime in Tehran.
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Written by Dr. Rouzbeh Parsi and Dr. Trita Parsi
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Sunday, 27 December 2009 |
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The Daily Beast - With the government growing increasingly desperate-and violent-the new
clashes on the streets in Iran may very well prove to be the breaking
point of the regime. If so, it shows that the Iranian theocracy
ultimately fell on its own sword. It didn't come to an end due to the
efforts of exiled opposition groups or the regime change schemes of
Washington's neo-conservatives. Rather, the Iranian people are the main
characters in this drama, using the very same symbols that brought the
Islamic Republic into being to close this chapter in a century-old
struggle for democracy.
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Written by Dr. Farideh Farhi
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Monday, 21 December 2009 |
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Less than three months after rising expectations on the
possibility of a breakthrough in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, hopes
of sealing a deal that would transfer the bulk of Iran's low-enriched uranium
abroad have dissipated.
Yet another attempt to engender trust between the US and Iran has
instead led to more distrust and Obama's mantra about "talking to Iran" looks
more and more like the Bush administration's policy: all sticks and no carrots. The hoped-for transfer of Iran's LEU abroad is on the verge of
becoming a precondition for further substantive talks, placing the Obama
administration where the Bush administration was for years, insisting on the
suspension of all enrichment-related activities before negotiations could
begin.
The present impasse cannot last, and a risky confrontation could
easily ensue. Cooler heads, of course, could prevail, leading both sides to set
aside the rancor surrounding the deal and return to the negotiating table. If
talks do resume, both sides should study their missteps closely.
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Written by Dr. Trita Parsi
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
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The Obama administration set out its
presidency with an ambitious agenda for the Middle East. US troops were to be
withdrawn from a stabilized Iraq, additional resources allocated to win the
peace in Afghanistan, a renewed push for a viable peace in Israel and Palestine
and, perhaps as a key to all of the above, diplomacy with Iran. After
masterfully - and unilaterally - changing the atmospherics between the two
countries to make it more conducive to the success of diplomacy, while pushing
back pressure from Israel and Congress to impose artificial deadlines for any
negotiations with Iran, hardliners in Iran pulled the rug from under the feet
of President Barack Obama.
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Written by Dr. Farideh Farhi
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
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Islamic Revolution’s Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari’s speech on September 2, delivered in front of early military leaders of the Iran-Iraq War is significant for several reasons.
First, it is noteworthy for his public acknowledgment of IRGC’s direct involvement in the elections and the crackdown. This acknowledgment came in reference to a February 2009 statement by former president Mohammad Khatami
According to Jafari, Khatami said, “If in this election Ahmadinejad falls, then rahbari [office of the leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] will be effectively eliminated…through the defeat of principlists, we must contain the power of rahbari.”
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