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The Warped Morality of a Warmonger: Why Alan Dershowitz is Wrong on Israel’s ‘Rights’

The Warped Morality of a Warmonger: Why Alan Dershowitz is Wrong on Israel’s ‘Rights’

Renowned torture enthusiast and perennial Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz was in Tel Aviv this month attending an annual business conference sponsored by Globes and, as usual, took the opportunity to equivocate…

Iran, the Revolution and the Language of War

Iran, the Revolution and the Language of War

A few days ago, I revisited a lecture given by Fred Halliday, FBA, an intellectual giant among scholars of Middle East and Cold War history, at the London School of…

A Conference for Security and Cooperation in the Middle East

With the war drums on Iran sounding again and the Arab Revolts following an arduous path, the question of a sustainable perspective for a conflict-ridden region remains to be dealt…

U.K. Diplomacy Strengthens Iran, Weakens Britain

U.K. Diplomacy Strengthens Iran, Weakens Britain

I felt quite uneasy when our man in Tehran, Dominick Chilcott, said the attack on the British Embassy was state-supported. What doesn’t he understand about people power? Surely, he should…

Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum: Self-Promoting Interests

Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum: Self-Promoting Interests

I did not catch as much of this forum as I would have liked, but if what I saw was indicative of the whole affair, then it was mainly a…

Doing an Iraq to Iran

Doing an Iraq to Iran

You may fool some people some of the time, counseled Abraham Lincoln, but not all the people all the time. The earthy wisdom of the US president credited with uniting…

Complete CBS News South Carolina Republican 2012 Presidential Debate

Unbelievable ignorant warmongering from the Republican presidential candidates. Calls for war with Iran, encouraging murdering Iranian scientists, calling for torturing prisoners, openly lauding taxpayer subsidies to the military industrial complex,…

IAEA Credibility and Its Latest Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program

IAEA Credibility and Its Latest Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its latest periodic report on Iran’s nuclear program last Tuesday after weeks of mainstream Western media fanfare around it. Wide debates have been…

Criminalizing Diplomacy: Fanning the Flames of the Iran War Option

Criminalizing Diplomacy: Fanning the Flames of the Iran War Option

How many times have we heard in recent weeks either outright threats to attack Iran, mainly emanating from Israel, or the more muted posture adopted by the United States that…

Territory of Lies: The Israeli-Occupied Hearing on Alleged Iranian Terror

Territory of Lies: The Israeli-Occupied Hearing on Alleged Iranian Terror

In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force – involving a bumbling, failed used-car salesman’s botched attempt…

What Makes the Muslims Angry

“Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.” — Barack Obama, 44th President of USA THE year 1979 holds special importance.…

Engaging Iran with Political and Diplomatic Means

The U.S. has alleged that Iran plotted to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Iran has denied the allegation and stated that the assassination attempt is a “propaganda” generated…

The Plot Behind the ‘Iran Plot’

A great deal of time in my adolescent years was spent with my father’s books.   I was introduced to some of the finest names in Urdu and Western literature in my…

Provoking a Path to Persia

In June 2009, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy published “Which Path to Persia?—Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran.” Writing in a tone strikingly reminiscent of the…

Unfolding the ‘Iron Bomb Plot’: Mossad at Work

Despite its evidently make-believe facade, the cooked-up story of the Saudi envoy assassination plot does not seem to be something which can be easily banished from the minds of the…

America, Iran and an Unashamedly Interventionist Secretary of State

The war is not over yet in Libya after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, and the Obama administration has turned its attention to Iran. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement of…

Iran: The Setup – The Plot Thickens

News wires are abuzz with the extraordinary allegation of an Iranian “plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the US”.  In yet another bizarre twist, according to Haaretz, a few months…

An Iranian Rival for the Guinness Book of World Records

The Guinness Book of World Records is being challenged with the efforts of a determined Iranian journalist. A new rival is slated to take the place of Guinness World Records…

Ahmadinejad and Obama at the UN: Of Statesmanship and Political Pandering

Ahmadinejad and Obama at the UN: Of Statesmanship and Political Pandering

BEIRUT — For westerners, and particularly Americans, who have watched Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad up fairly close as he delivers speeches in the US and elsewhere, including during last year’s…

Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Plant Comes Online, World Survives

On 12 September Iran brought its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr online, connecting it to the country’s electrical grid. Iranian officials at the opening ceremony said that the 1,000…