Woe is the reporter on deadline, for he must miss the New America Foundation’s internal disputes over Iran. I had hoped to make it over to New America right now for a much-anticipated discussion with the think tank’s energetic and spirited advocates for all sides of the Iran-policy question, but More…
Two new ones from the tireless Iranian dissenter worth highlighting. First:
Hospital sources – at least 1000 people injured so far by Gov in the streets against Sea of Green
confirmed source – All major cities in Iran now reporting saound of Allah Akbar – Death to the
This is deep in the weeds of a political dynamic I can hardly say I fully understand, but how much sense does it make for the exiled son of the shah to give a speech at the National Press Club in support of the Iranian opposition? With Mir More…
So tweets @TehranBureau, a fascinating source of Iran-opposition news. The New York Times reports that the Revolutionary Guards are vowing to inflict even more violence if the protests don’t end, despite the Guardian Council’s admission that 50 cities cast more ballots than had registered voters.
Some more More…
With a potential crackdown looming, President Obama tells CBS (via Nico Pitney):
And I’m very concerned based on some of the tenor — and tone of the statements that have been made — that the government of Iran recognize that the world is watching. And how they approach
Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said he has a hard time taking a strong stance one way or the other about the Berman-Pence Iran resolution currently being debated on the House floor. But it’s wading awfully close into a “political act” for More…
To add to Weigel’s post a bit, I’m not sure Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) is really hedging his bets on the Iran resolution he signed onto with Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.). While he said that it’s “not for us to decide who runs Iran, or who the real More…
On Akbar Ganji’s question of whether the United States and its allies are saying enough about human rights in Iran, check out this remarkably frank blog post from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband:
Fair question - Senator John Kerry also addressed this issue in a typically eloquent
Nothing like a good old-fashioned inter-liberal argument on foreign policy. I have a lot of respect for George Packer, Hilzoy and Eric Martin, so I’m not going to get in the middle of their dispute. But this argument George makes is problematic, to say the least: More…
Check out this authentic-frontier-gibberish from Bernard Henri-Levy:
From these three certainties, considered together, arises a clear obligation: aiding and strengthening, with all our might, the Iranian civil society in revolt. We have done it in the past with the USSR. We eventually understood, after decades of cowardice, that totalitarianism,
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