At 41, Mohammad has led a varied life. He moved to Canada from Iran in 1988, 3 months before the Iran-Iraq war ended, having completed his military service. Now an artist-cum-curator of contemporary art, he reads Philosophy and Iranian studies….
NY Times reports: President George W. Bush rejected a plea from Israel last year to help it raid Iran’s main nuclear complex… Israel’s request was for specialized bunker-busting bombs that it wanted for an attack that tentatively involved flying over…
Steve Walt’s new blog points out that Rick Warren is not just scary about gays, but about Ahmadinejad: Appearing on Fox News on December 3, Warren openly endorsed host Sean Hannity’s declaration that “we need to take him [Iranian President…
More fuel for my belief that the power of the lobby has peaked: Trita Parsi, realist, writing about why Obama doesn’t need more sanctions against Iran, he already has the tools to do this diplomatically… The neoconservatives really are passing…
I can’t be alone in saying that the Brad Sherman moment with the auto executives the other day, in which he asked who had flown commercial to D.C. and then who was prepared to sell his plane and fly back…
Jeff Blankfort points out that my pickup on “Obama’s Iran braintrust” last night was wrong. Oh my. Shouldn’t blog late at night when I should be having connubial bliss. Then he joins in the conversation with Jack Ross on whether…
Rejoice. We always knew this is what the election was about. There are very hopeful signs in this list of Obama experts giving him advice re Iran. Says Muhammad Idrees Ahmad: It is quite significant that among the experts is…
Gideon Levy in Haaretz can talk baldly about the great religious issue of this campaign, whether Obama is for Israel or not. Here we can only talk about the Christian right. Levy urges Obama to talk to Iran and Hamas…
Jack Ross continues to be optimistic re Obama and Middle East policy. At some point all this is imponderable, but for now– The bottom line is that Obama is not going to do anything that would jeopardize rapproachment with Iran,…