Roger Cohen does a great service in today’s New York Times in a surprising article “What Iran’s Jews Say.” Reporting from Esfahan, Cohen blows away the image of Iran that AIPAC and the Israel lobby have worked so hard to…
I failed to report one important statement that Mustafa Barghouti made at Columbia the other night. He specifically addressed the new neoconservative claim (championed here by Peter Berkowitz in the Weekly Standard) that Israel can’t talk to Hamas because Iran…
Thirty years ago today, Ayatollah Khomeini managed to bring down a 2500-year old monarchy in Iran and replace it with a new government system never seen before. On the eve of the anniversary of this revolution Mohammad of Vancouver sits…
A brilliant performance by the new president, I’d have to say. But troubling on the same old issues. “I just laughed when Obama said that a nuclear Iran ‘might set off a nuclear arms race in the region,'” F.E. Felson…
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: I have no illusions about Obama. I began having doubts when the Lieberman mentorship issue surfaced, and these doubts solidified into actual fears when I saw his speech at the annual AIPAC conference in June 2008….
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: We all agree that Joe Biden was is in Munich for an international security conference. We all agree that he spoke about the new direction in US foreign policy. But that’s all USA and the rest…
In a day or so we’re going to publish a splendid piece by Mohammad of Vancouver disputing James Petras’s argument that Obama is going to attack Iran. Part of Mohammad’s critique is a long meditation on the character of the…
Notwithstanding his record on the neverending “peace process” (12 years, during which colonization of the West Bank marched on), Dennis Ross is said to be on the inside track to become envoy on the Iran portfolio under Obama. Well, two…
Phil Weiss: When he was young, my friend Mohammad of Vancouver, an art curator and graduate student, served in the Iranian army during the Iran-Iraq war. I asked him whether he’d observed or experienced torture, and how he feels about…