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08/21/2008
Eye on Iran
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According to Iranian press, President Ahmadinejad said, “We will witness dismantling of the corrupt regime in a very near future” during World Mosque Week in Tehran...More
08/20/2008
Eye on Iran
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Reuters reported on the effects that sanctions and international pressure have had on Iranian oil and gas exports. “’Iran will of course ...More
08/19/2008
Eye on Iran
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The New York Times reported that Iran offered to carry the satellites of other Muslim countries to space after its recently disputed test launch. “A day after Iran declared...More
08/18/2008
Eye on Iran - * Breaking News
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Reuters reports that Shi'ite insurgents hiding, training and reequipping in Iran are expected to return to Iraq soon “to try to foment instability.” ...More
08/18/2008
Eye on Iran
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The International Herald Tribune reported that Iran tested a rocket which could carry a satellite into space. “The report of the test flight comes amid growing Western...More
08/15/2008
Eye on Iran
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AP reported that teams of assasins are training in Iran to be sent to Iran. “Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four ...More
08/14/2008
Eye on Iran - * Breaking News
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkish counterpart failed on Thursday to ...More
08/14/2008
Eye on Iran
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The New York Times reported on extensive anti-Israeli rhetoric from the Iranian legislature. “[S]uggesting that Iran is a friend of the Israeli people, well, that ...More
08/13/2008
Eye on Iran
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Reuters reported that the Treasury Department has sanctioned “five more Iranian entities it said had provided support or materials to Iran's nuclear and ...More
08/12/2008
Eye on Iran
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AFP reported that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke about Iran’s nuclear program and the gobal opposition it has received. “‘People and their government's resistance and ...More
08/11/2008
Eye on Iran
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Reuters reported that Iranian and European spoke this morning regarding Iran’s nuclear program “but an EU official said ...More
08/08/2008
Eye on Iran
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AFP reported on new sanctions against Iran by the EU, “including restrictions on public loans and tougher cargo inspections, the EU presidency announced Friday. The measures...More
07/31/2008
Iran Democracy Monitor No. 76, July 31, 2008
IIan Berman
Since taking office in 2005, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made the idea of a Third World “revolution” one of his main foreign policy themes. Three years on, this effort does not...More
07/01/2008
Iran Democracy Monitor No. 75, June 30, 2008
IIan Berman
In the last issue of the Iran Democracy Monitor, we wrote that the Iran-Europe Commercial Bank “began operations on the Iranian island of Kish” on May 29th. In fact, the German-registered ...More
08/07/2008
A 'new' new world order?
IIan Berman
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again. In late July, Iran's firebrand president used a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Nonaligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran as the platform for ...More
07/25/2008
Putting the Squeeze on Iran
Michael Jacobson
US-Iranian relations are once again headline news after dropping off the radar for several months in the wake of the US National Intelligence Estimate in December 2007. In recent days...More
02/01/2008
Irans Foreign Minister to Resign
After many months of infighting and pressure from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it seems that Iran’s Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki has decided ...More
01/09/2008
NIE on Iran Offers Cold Comfort
IIan Berman
The United States intelligence community’s new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has made major waves since ...More
11/26/2007
How to Avert a Wider Regional War with Iran
Farid Iman and Kamran Beigi
What has plagued the American foreign policy in the Middle East and the war on terror is directly linked to ambiguous and contradictory policies...More
11/14/2007
Nature of the Beast
Yar Meshkaty
For almost three decades now the United States and its allies have been pondering, and occasionally arguing about the best policies for dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran...More
11/14/2007
Islamic Republics Partial Report Card
Farhad Mansourian
Pending changes in the Iranian Penal Code, proposed by Mr. Ahmadinejad’s Government, children as young as 14 years old can be executed by the State...More
11/14/2007
Iranians Share United States Interests
Said Jabbari
Coming right on the heels of a survey conducted by Terror free Tomorrow (TFT), a new survey, conducted by ...More
11/14/2007
Study Survey Bullet Point
CFPD
The following is a bullet point summary of a survey conducted by the Center For the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights. The CFPD survey was ...More
11/14/2007
Survey on Iranian Public Opinion
Said Jabbari
In late 2006 the Center for the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights (CFPD) contracted with a major research center in a Middle Eastern country (RC)...More
10/07/2007
Regional and Global consequences of U.S. Military action in Iran
IIan Berman
Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to address the current crisis with Iran, and the potential of military ...More
07/20/2007
Tehran: Release the Iranian Americans
Farid Iman and Kamran Beigi
The Islamic republic of Iran has once again resorted to the techniques they learned from the Soviets during the early days of the Islamic ...More
07/06/2007
Democratic Presidential Contenders
Farid Iman and Kamran Beigi
Democratic Presidential contenders are falling back upon tried and true prescriptions for failure in order to avoid facing ...More
06/11/2007
Iran Hostage taking as Diplomacy
Farid Iman and Kamran Beigi
The continued detention of Iranian-American scholars Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and four others is another ...More
06/01/2007
Left should go Right
Farid Iman and Kamran Beigi
Many historians are of the opinion that the 21st century began in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although the rapid chain ...More
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