Deadly Israeli Raid on Aid Fleet
Al Jazeera | 31 May 2010 Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board. Dozens of others...
The Fear of a Free Kurdistan in the Middle East of the 21st Century
Dr. Ayla Gol | 01 June 2010 Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and the de facto existence of Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq, Ankara’s fear of the disintegration of the Turkish...
Iran Nuclear Deal Exposing the Shifting Distribution of Power
By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 24 May 2010 The 2008 report of the US National Intelligence Council - which supports the Director of National Intelligence and is the centre for long-range...
Multidimensional Accounts Between Resistance and Rebellion: An Analysis on Yemen
By M. Huseyin Mercan | 01 April 2010 The Yemeni public have already witnessed a dangerous conflict on their own territory. The conflict was intensified by the Husi rebellion and...
The Process of Memory and Forgetting as The Significant Steps of Nationalism: Iran as Case Study
By Tayfun Ustun | 01 April 2010 The subject of nation and nationalism is one of the highly controversial issues and cannot be answered by adopting a single perspective in...
US-Israel: The Big Fight Within Obama Administration — Ross v. Mitchell, NSC v. State Department
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 30 March 2010 Laura Rozen of Politico returns to top inside reporter form with this piece on the division over Israel policy within the Obama Administration,...
Leaving Behind All Logic and Rational Policy in an Effort to Bash Israel
By Prof. Barry Rubin | 29 March 2010 When you barely scratch the surface of what's being said by the Obama Administration and supporters about its current one-way feud with Israel...
Pardon Me, Obama Administration, But Isn’t Your Policy on Fire?
Barry Rubin 05 March 2010 The story of the U.S. engagement with Syria and the sanctions issue regarding Iran’s nuclear program are fascinating. Each day there’s some new development showing how...
Egypt’s Reluctant Revolutionary
Mohamed ElBaradei was greeted by cheering crowds upon his return to Cairo. Now for the hard part David Kenner 19 February 2010 Austrian Airlines Flight 863 touched down...
Iran: In Praise of Citizen Journalists
Prof. Scott Lucas 23 February 2010 Yesterday a prominent Iran correspondent for an international news agency wrote, as an afterthought on a post about the “Iranian Cyber Army”, “The authorities...
Arabs Fear Iran As a Tidal Wave; The West Thinks It’s Easily Contained by a Sand Castle
Prof. Barry Rubin 22 February 2010 How do leading Arab forces view the U.S. and Iranian maneuverings over Tehran’s drive to get nuclear weapons, the world’s number one political...
Behind the Settlements
Daniel Kurtzer 08 February 2010 Ariel Sharon was considered the godfather of the Israeli settlements movement. His ardent support of settlements construction and the legitimacy he lent to the...
Turkey Becomes Refuge for Fleeing Iranians
Dorian Jones 29 January 2010 Iranians fleeing the Tehran government's crackdown on its opponents are increasingly seeking refuge in Turkey. Months of continuing political instability in Iran and the...
Iran Document/Analysis: Karroubi’s Statement on the Political Situation
Prof. Scott Lucas Britain’s Financial Times has published a lengthy interview with Mehdi Karroubi. The full interview, covering Karroubi’s political involvement from 1979 to the present, is well worth a read, but...
Iran: How Should the US Treat the Green Movement? (Haghighatjoo)
Prof. Scott Lucas insideIRAN publishes an interview with one of the most prominent US-based expatriate Iranians: Fatemeh Haghighatjoo was a member of Iran’s Parliament from 2000 to 2004, and...