Dinocrat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Marty Peretz in TNR: Can you imagine the fall of the ayatollahs? I can, and so can learned Abbas Milani, professor of Iranian studies at Stanford, whose writings you can read here, with an additional important article in both the print and on-line New Republic next week. But can President Obama imagine an Iran freed from the [...]
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... is that the Iranians are unable to decide," says a senior European diplomat involved in the talks. Abbas Milani, a Stanford professor who closely follows events in Iran, agrees: "They clearly want to back out of the deal." It's a measure of the political turmoil in Tehran that the chief proponent of engagement with the United States over the past month has been the hard-line president,...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Scheiber The Losers From This Week’s Protests in Iran: Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, and Obama , by Abbas Milani Is Barack Obama Causing a Real Estate Boom in the West Bank? by Sarah A. Topol I’ll Say This About the GOP Health Plan … It’s Even Worse Than I Imagined , by Jonathan Cohn How Obama Can Help Democrats Avoid a Repeat of the Virginia Debacle in 2010 , by...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... Actually Save Us Money? , by Jonathan Rothwell A Green Ayatollah’s Fatwa Against Nukes , by Abbas Milani As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash , environment and energy coverage on The Vine , the latest on health care at The Treatment , metro policy debate on The Avenue , and Marty Peretz's The Spine . Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford, where he is the co-director of the Iran Democracy Project. His latest book is Eminent Persian: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (Syracuse University Press). There has been much debate about where Iran’s democratic protesters stand on the country’s nuclear program. In...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
... Directions The most important announcement from Iran this week did not come from Ahmadinejad. Abbas Milani The Iranian regime has made headlines this week with its announcement that it will allow inspections into its recently discovered enrichment site in Qom, and its agreement, albeit ambiguously, to allow enrichment to be handled by Russia or France. Less covered, but actually more...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
... Reza Aslan, author of "How to Win a Cosmic War" and a contributor to Daily Beast. Also Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford. And on the phone, Candy Crowley. Reza, how big a deal is this? ASLAN: Well, it's actually quite significant. I mean, one of the major issues that we had with Iran was its stockpile of low enriched uranium. And, frankly, eight years...
Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
... me now is Reza Aslan, author of “How to Win a Cosmic War” & a contributor to Daily Beast. Also Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford. & on a phone, C&y Crowley. Reza, how big a deal is this? ASLAN: Well, it’s actually quite significant. I mean, one of a major issues that we had with Iran was its stockpile of low enriched uranium. &, frankly, eight years of an administration...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
The Most Important Announcement From Iran This Week Did Not Come From Ahmadinejad , by Abbas Milani From Maverick to Mothball: What’s Happened to John McCain Since 2008? by Jesse Zwick Is Obama on the Wrong Side of the Honduran Constitutional Crisis? by James Kirchick Kauffmann: What Happens When You Turn a David Foster Wallace Anthology Into a Film? PLUS: ’35 Shots of Rum’...
All Things Anderson (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... ... a possible deal for them to sell their enriched uranium to other countries. Reza Aslan and Abbas Milani discuss. Reza says this is a great step forward, Abbas says it's just a first step but it does give them a way out of the corner they painted themselves into. Candy Crowley (via phone) talks about the political issues and what "agreements in principle" means...
