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Abbas Milani in The New Republic: There are, arguably, strategic reasons for the United States to keep silent on the fate of the democratic movement. But history is not one of them. Rather, the regime’s version of events (past and...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
... Telegraph The Great Satan Myth: Everything you know about U.S. involvement in Iran is wrong. -- Abbas Milani, New Republic In Switzerland, towers of fear: A country says no to more than minarets -- Anne Applebaum, Washington Post Pre-Budget report: Will anyone lift Britain out of the debt crisis -- Matthew Elliott, Daily Telegraph
The Plank (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Everything You Know About American Involvement in Iran Is Wrong by Abbas Milani Will You End Up Paying More for Health Insurance Under the Current Senate Bill? by Jonathan Cohn Why Clausewitz Would Not Be Happy With Obama’s New Afghanistan Strategy by William R. Gruver Three Things Liberals Could Get in Exchange for the Giving up the Public Option by Jonathan Cohn Decoding the...
Dinocrat (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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 [...]
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...
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,...
