But with Rouhani's inauguration on Saturday, the House has already cast a vote that will undermine the new Iranian President and boost hardliners opposed to a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear...
Despite what some policy makers in Washington have been claiming, and despite the pressure of sanctions on the population, not one person that I spoke to cited sanctions as being the reason for v...
Trying to predict political developments in Iran can be a humbling experience, even for the most seasoned students of Iranian politics. The unexpected electoral victory of centrist Hassan Rouhani...
Ultimately, change in foreign policy will be limited unless it's accompanied by progress in Iran's internal situation. But at a minimum, neither the intent nor capability of Rohani should be disc...
Fifty years ago today, President Kennedy delivered a visionary commencement speech at American University in which he called on Americans to reexamine their attitudes toward peace. Today, Kennedy...
Last week, a senior State Department official acknowledged something the U.S. government had previously chalked up as simply Iranian propaganda: that sanctions are contributing to medicine shorta...
Will Momentum for EU Oil Embargo on Iran Wreck Diplomacy?Monday, January 9, 2012 By: Trita Parsi – Analysis (Special to The Independent) The diplomatic resources required to create consen...
Will Momentum for EU Oil Embargo on Iran Wreck Diplomacy?Monday, January 9, 2012 By: Trita Parsi – Analysis (Special to The Independent) The diplomatic resources required to create consen...
NIAC's Trita Parsi writes for CNN that fears of yet another war in the Middle East may be in the making are not unfounded, particularly if diplomacy continues to be treated as a slogan rather tha...
The disgraceful attack by hardline Basijis against the British embassy in Tehran appears on the surface to be a response to Britain's role in imposing crippling sanctions on Iran. But there is mo...
NIAC President Trita Parsi writes in Salon.com that the new UN report shows that transparency, not sanctions and assassination, will secure U.S interests. ...
The Supreme Leader's suggestion that Iran's presidency might be eliminated is part of larger undemocratic trend undemocratic trend in Iranian politics where political change has been engineered a...