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Iran Mulls Over Many Presidential Candidates

From On May 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Logby Farideh Farhi

Iran’s June 14 presidential election, only about a month and a half away, will get ample attention — and more than a dose of speculation — from everyone interested in the big picture items: whether there will be an actual choice of candidates, whether the result will have an [...]

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Iran in 2012: A Year in Review

From On December 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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For Iran, 2012 will go down as the year of economic woes. The mantra of the “enemy’s psychological war against Iran” will no longer be blamed more than internal mismanagement even by the most ardent supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Leader, Ali Khamenei. The “resistance economy” against the “economic war [...]

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Ahmadinejad’s Tumble and Iran’s Political Terrain

From On October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Sadeq Zibakalam, University of Tehran professor and the closest the Islamic Republic has to an intra-systemic gadfly, has written an interesting commentary in the new daily Arman regarding the current state of Iranian politics. The article’s title, “End of the Deviation current,” refers to the excuse hardline conservatives in Iran have [...]

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ISIS Report: Highly Enriched Uranium in Iran should be “unacceptable”

From On October 29, 2012 · 1 Comment

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The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has released a brief report emphasizing that Iran continues to move toward nuclear weapons capability and the international community must halt further progress. ISIS’s latest concern centers around Iranian lawmaker Mansour Haqiqatpour’s October 2 comment that Iran could enrich uranium to 60 percent [...]

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Sanctions and the shaping of Iran’s “Resistance Economy”

From On July 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) has published a useful brief aptly subtitled “Killing them softly” about the impact of sanctions on the lives of ordinary people who live in Iran, particularly women and other vulnerable groups such as Afghan refugee women and children. I recommend [...]

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Internet polling and Iran’s Nuclear Programme

From On July 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

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Iran watchers are no doubt aware that recently Iran’s “Shabake-ye Khabar” news network of the Islamic Republic’s official “Seda va Sima” television and radio network, conducted an internet poll regarding Iran’s nuclear programme.

Respondents were asked whether Iran should cease uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief. [...]

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Ahmadinejad Cans FM, Replaces with Nuke Chief

From On December 13, 2010 · 1 Comment

Does the selection of Iran’s nuclear czar as its new (interim) foreign minister say anything about nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West? We don’t really know, and given that the next round of talks is only a month away, we might not know until news breaks from Istanbul.

Let’s get caught up with [...]

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