(Photo entitled “Best depiction of today’s protest in Tehran” posted by brl85 over Twitter) Has there ever been a more tone-deaf speech? As there world sat enthralled with the outpouring of defiance and dissent throughout Iran, here’s what Benjamin Netanyahu…
Tehran spring is busting out all over. Haaretz reports that Dennis Ross, Obama’s point man on Iran, is being relieved of his duties and moved elsewhere. Haaretz: Washington insiders speculate that a number of reasons moved the administration to reassign…
Here is an appeal from Amir, who is of Iranian extraction: Could you please ask your readers, the ones which are technically capable to set up proxy services for IP ranges inside Iran? These addresses can be sent to some…
video from Iran News blogspot Iranian-Canadian Amir Safavi-Naeini writes re Iran: Just thought I’d let you in quickly on what has happened in the last 24 hours. Some of these reports are still in Farsi, and I’ll translate. Basically, last…
Shiva Balaghi is an editor at MERIP and, beginning in July, a fellow at the Cogut Center for Humanities at Brown University (where she will teach history). She has been compiling information on the outcome of the elections from news…
The hard-line group, United Against a Nuclear Iran is pushing for sanctions against Iran with an ad featuring images of nuclear-armed missiles. Check out the group’s leadership. Dennis Ross is pictured on the leadership page. Note that Ross is pictured…
As I reported last month, speakers at AIPAC described Ahmadinejad as the “gift that keeps on giving.” Now AIPAC is pushing a bill in the House for Iran sanctions that the Obama administration doesn’t want, as it seeks to turn…
What would you do if you got this email? you’ve really got to read what Jeffrey Goldberg just said to a Jewish television audience. Something is breaking, cracking, tearing. I have never experienced anything like this moment! Pretty exciting, huh?…
The commentary on the Iran/US/Israel triangle is coming fast and furious. It’s too much for me to try to put together into a coherent post, so I thought I’d just give a rundown and links. We can sort it out…