I just got back from a panel on the Hill sponsored by the National Iranian-American Council, one of the premier organizations within the Iranian diaspora, about next steps in U.S.-Iranian nuclear negotiations. But as an organization that helped lead the drumbeat in the U.S. to support the Iranian dissident movement More…
During today’s press gaggle, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he made a mistake by calling the just-sworn-in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the “elected leader” of Iran:
MR. GIBBS: Well, let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader
Something is definitely happening in the Washington-based Iran debate, because there’s a lot to agree with in this Thomas Jocelyn post at The Weekly Standard. Jocelyn provides a much-more-sophisticated-than-usual take on the proposition that the Iranian regime is just going to blame whatever the opposition does on shadowy western More…
That (updated) House resolution on Iran from Reps. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.)? The National Iranian-American Council, which has played a leading role in publicizing and distributing information on the Iranian opposition this past week, has come out firmly against it. Here’s one of several statements posted More…
After two days of criticism that he should explicitly side with the Iranian opposition, President Obama yesterday said he was “deeply troubled” by the Iranian regime’s willingness to resort to violence, and while it’s “up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be,” he believes “the More…
Before voters went to the polls in Friday’s elections in Iran, critics of President Obama’s Iran policy — and of his outreach to the Middle East in general — attempted to pre-empt the possible defeat of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by pronouncing it meaningless. John Bolton, the former United Nations Ambassador More…
A former minister in the reformist government of Mohammed Khatami just posted on Mir Hossein Moussavi’s Website — which I suppose is unblocked for the moment — that the Islamic Republic is over. Like over, over. The National Iranian American Council’s blog translates:
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