The Guardian on all the heat that Roger Cohen is getting for being open-minded about Iran: Cohen said he was stunned by the vehemence of the response, an impression exacerbated when he visited exiled Iranian Jews in California and was…
Yesterday I noted that, dispelling the usual hypocrisy that surrounds the discussion, Martin Indyk spoke openly of Israel’s nuclear weapons when taking a realist view of Iran’s nuclear program. Here is Stephen Zunes, in an interview with Kourosh Ziabari of…
Yesterday I caught part of PBS travel guru Rick Steves’s wonderful trip to Iran on television. His whole message was great, till he spoke of “family values” in Iran. That’s why people support the Islamic republic, he said, they have…
An important debate took place on Wednesday: What to do if Iran gets nukes? at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Two neoconservatives, Elliott Abrams and Joshua Muravchik, were pitted against the newly-realist Martin Indyk…
Ilene Cohen writes: Richard Falk in this interview is, as always, unflappable and indefatigable. He is challenged by the BBC interviewer that the Israelis “dismiss” him because he is “biased,” and following the interview, an Israeli spokesperson is quoted as…
Mohammad of Vancouver responds to Obama’s Nowruz greetings to the Iranian people and leaders, on the occasion of the Zoroastrian new year: Obama is setting himself up for a difficult task, and his new year message is not going to…
MJ Rosenberg has a genius post about Israeli President Shimon Peres sending his New Year’s greeting to Iran right on the heels of Obama’s greeting to Iran. I hear that the White House is furious. Today’s Times reports that when…
A day after The Times underplayed Obama’s video outreach to the Iranians, the newspaper of record gets the significance of his Nowruz (Zoroastrian new year) statement. Huge. Death knell to the neocons. Obama concluded the statement, “Thank you, and Eid-eh…
The latest piece to echo this conventional wisdom is in the Washington Post. I like this conventional wisdom. Netanyahu still doesn’t seem to get it. They’re prevaricating about settlements, and insisting on the Permanent War theory of the Islamic world….