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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Guest Post by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett: Reading Russia on Iran russia-iran2-300x251.jpg This is a guest note by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. Flynt directs the New America Foundation/Iran Project and is a former Senior Director of Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council. Hillary is chairman of Stratega,...
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The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This is a guest note by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. Flynt directs the New America Foundation/Iran Project and is a former Senior Director of Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council. Hillary is chairman of Stratega,...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Last week, I wrote about a panel at the inaugural convention of the self-described "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization J Street, in which former Bush NSC staffer Hillary Mann Leverett said the following : Too often, Iran's security concerns are dismissed in the U.S. and in Israel as false or manufactured, reinforcing the stereotype of Iranians as chronically duplicitous...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Why Tehran Doesn't Trust the West By Hillary Mann Leverett As the United States negotiates with Iran, it needs to jettison preconceptions about what negotiating with Iran means. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/28/pragmatists_in_tehran
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Serious Turkish diplomacy By: Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett October 29, 2009 Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was expected to come to the White House on Thursday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Erdogan’s visit has now been postponed, and the decision to postpone comes on the heels of the Turkish leader’s high-profile...
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The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
This is a guest note by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. Flynt directs the New America Foundation/Iran Project and is a former Senior Director of Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council. Hillary is chairman of Stratega,...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Guest Note by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett: Obama's Iran Sanctions Delusion from The Washington Note by Ben Katcher jibao2.jpg This is a guest note by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. Flynt directs the New America Foundation/Iran Project and is a former Senior Director of Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council....
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The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
This is a guest note by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. Flynt directs the New America Foundation/Iran Project and is a former Senior Director of Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council. Hillary is chairman of Stratega,...
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Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
OP-ED: Pragmatists in Tehran, BY HILLARY MANN LEVERETT, Foreign Policy, OCTOBER 30, 2009 Mann Leverett is always good, and she displays a strong logic here. Worth perusing. I especially liked the ending: The idea of a U.S.-Iranian "grand bargain" starts...
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ArmsControlWonk (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
This is a joint post by Jeffrey Lewis, Flynt Leverett, and Hillary Mann Leverett. This post is cross-posted at Flynt and Hillary’s blog, “Race for Iran”:http://www.raceforiran.com/ . Bloomberg’s Jonathan Tirone has a story today revealing that Iran has dramatically expanded operations at its Gchine uranium mine. Tirone worked closely with...
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The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... the Chinese or the Russians will support "crippling sanctions" against Iran is a delusion . Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett sum up the United States' strategic position in their article, " What serious diplomacy looks like -- in Turkey ," which appears in today's Politico . America no longer has the economic and political wherewithal to dictate strategic outcomes...
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SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... is counting on to boost its importance and the importance of its allies in the region. Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that the US should follow Turkey’s lead in realigning its relations with key Middle Eastern actors such as Iran, rather than trying to stop Turkey from doing it, which would be a losing battle. The problem for the US is that such a shift would bring it...
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The Acorn (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen—by the name and which has figured in attacks within Pakistan. Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett write that “many experienced observers of US intelligence activities in Central and South Asia believe that US intelligence agencies have their own ties to Jundallah.” There are several explanations for the attack: first, it was an attack by the Balochi-Sunni...
