While the Iranian people might not otherwise find a simple exposure of their country’s innumerable historical, architectural, and archeological sites in the national media, Press TV commendably acquaints its global audience with the priceless heritage of Iranian civilization.
Rebecca Griffin is the Political Director for Peace Action West, a grassroots organization of peace activists located in Oakland. She is currently heading up campaigns on Afghanistan and Iran.
Peter D. Feaver discusses U.S. policy towards Iran in an interview with Kourosh Ziabari of Foreign Policy Journal.
It was not surprising that Israeli officials found their reputation tarnished by a simple article in a not- world-renowned press outlet. But with countless newspapers, TV channels, and websites around the globe that serve as a mouthpiece for Israel , the blatant exercise double standards shocks me incessantly.
I told her that I’m Iranian. She remained silent and somewhat in shock for a few seconds, and suddenly yelled with excitement: Oh! So, you are a terrorist!
Stephen Kinzer generously set aside time from his busy schedule, which includes work writing a new book on realpolitik in the Middle East set to come out early next year, to join me in an interview for Foreign Policy Journal to try to clear up some of the ambiguities surrounding Iran’s disputed election and to share his view of the events that have followed and the controversy that has captured the world’s attention.
“The charge that the Iranian election was stolen is propagandistic,” he told me in an exclusive interview for Foreign Policy Journal. “Iran is under attack because it is one of two remaining independent countries in the region. If Iran also falls under U.S. hegemony, it is the end of Syria’s independence and of Hamas and Hezbollah.”
There is a general consensus among American and Israeli policy-makers and think tanks that a change in the presidency wouldn’t make any fundamental transformation in the long-run policies and ideologies of the Iranian government. The goal, rather, is to create a rift between the layers of power in Iran.
In an interview with Foreign Policy Journal, Jennifer Duncan, the Director of FAPE, sheds more light on the organization.
The peaceful and nonviolent demonstrations of the protesting youths and pro-reform supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi who were demanding their votes be officially “respected” by the authorities were soon mixed by the illicit and criminal actions of the U.S. and Israel-backed revolts and mutineers whose ultimate desire was to see a “velvet revolution” going on everywhere in Iran.
