Andrew Sullivan publishes a stirring communique from distinguished Iranian-Americans about the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran and the so-called p5+1 nations. The bottom line taken is that the negotiations ought to proceed, but human rights need to be a component. Check it out.
The analysis of Iranian More…
A bewildered Marc Lynch tries to make sense of Vice President Joe Biden’s comment yesterday that “Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest” when it comes to attacking Iran. Rounding up a number of Arab media stories that portray Biden’s More…
On Thursday, Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council suggested that one way for the Iranian opposition to keep its resistance to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alive now that its legal appeals have run aground would be to persuade influential clerics to denounce the result. It More…
The regime crackdown has broken up the large demonstrations and the international media has largely moved on — enabled unintentionally by Michael Jackson’s death — but don’t think the Iranian opposition is done for, according to Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council. Parsi just held a conference More…
The Iranian opposition movement has been brutally suppressed by a regime that has traded legitimacy for control. Facing dire straits, what’s left for it to do? Die in a maelstrom inflicted by the Israelis, according to John Bolton, a Bush-administration undersecretary of state and U.N. ambassador.
There’s a lot More…
Via David Corn at Mother Jones, no alarms and no surprises here. Only a fraudulent election upheld by the same clique that put the fix in. Hopes for a regime-based climbdown from its total rejection of the opposition now appear to be vain. The regime seems capable of More…
Far, far more informative than this post. (Video after the jump.)
More seriously now. In Iran there’s something called an Assembly of Experts, a clerical body charged with electing the Supreme Leader and ensuring that he holds true to the finest Islamic traditions. One such expert, Ahmed Khatami, has a few suggestions for how the regime ought to treat the protesters More…
Helene Cooper has a good piece in The New York Times about the Obama administration’s evolving stance on Iran, but it leaves out something that’s going to be an increasingly relevant concern if the regime weathers the opposition’s challenge to its authority: when negotiations with Iran can or More…
As best I can piece together this morning, the Iranian regime’s crackdown is halting the momentum of the opposition. Andrew says he can find no sign of today’s planned rally. No idea about the general strike. The New York Times, however, reports:
… at least three Iranian newspapers
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