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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...

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...

Prof. Barry Rubin   There is an iron rule in modern democratic politics that parties periodically ignore to their peril: if a party goes too far to an extreme--to the...

Prof. Scott Lucas  The world is once again watching Iran. A series of weekend developments are in the global press this morning. Thomas Erdbrink of The Washington Postcovers the Parliamentary report on the...

Barry Rubin If you launch a West Bank operation to defeat a terrorist war (against international complaints); build a security fence (despite international criticism); and fight a defensive action in...

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has told his Israeli counterpart construction work on land taken from Palestinians in 1967 must stop if there is to be peace.   Speaking at a press...

Ahmed El Amraoui   Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian president and PLO leader, died on November 11, 2004 but his supporters and opponents continue to reflect - and often debate -...

Palestinian officials are preparing to ask the United Nations to endorse their quest for an independent state after years of failed peace talks, Palestinian authorities have said.   Saeb Erekat,...

Meredith Buel From the beginning of his administration, U.S. President Barack Obama said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a top foreign policy priority. After nearly 10 months of diplomacy,...

Prof. Scott Lucas   Again, with apologies in advance, I am reacting to an article in a US newspaper about the Green movement in Iran.   I do not want...

Prof. Scott Lucas   One of the immediate headline issues in yesterday’s bombings in Iran, which killed at least 42 people including six senior Revolutionary Guard commanders, was US involvement....

Prof. Scott Lucas   The media will be buzzing for the rest of the day about an American “scrapping” of its plans to base missile defense in sites in Poland...

Ilan Berman After months of dithering and delay, the Iranian government appears to have grudgingly accepted the U.S. president's diplomatic overtures. Just shy of the deadline for dialogue set by...

Shlomo Ben-Ami   No matter how important rising oil powers outside the Middle East are becoming, the region will continue to be the world’s main source of energy for years...

Prof. Scott Lucas   Today, on Iran’s “weekend”, should be a political catch-your-breath day after the culmination of Parliament’s approval of 18 of 21 proposed Ministers for the Ahmadinejad Cabinet....