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MEK tied to Israel-backed Terrorism Regardless of US Designation

From On September 26, 2012 · 1 Comment

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By Richard Sale

I believe that delisting the Mujahadeen-e Khalq (MEK) from the US foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) list is in every way reprehensible. I realize that all US public officials, especially the president, are involved in systems of necessity and that without satisfying those necessities, their hold on power wouldn’t [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On September 24, 2011 · 1 Comment

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for Sept. 19 – 22

Commentary: While most of the U.S. celebrated the release of the remaining two U.S. hikers imprisoned in Iran after they illegally entered the country, American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Rubin was perturbed. After quoting a book by Matthew [...]

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Questions About the NYT's Reporting on Stuxnet

From On February 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Rehmat Qadir has a detailed post at Mondoweiss which take a closer look at the New York Times’s reporting on Stuxnet. He finds some startling inconsistencies in the Times’s reporting.

He writes:

The New York Times article is deliberately misleading, excluding publicly-available evidence that casts doubts on the facts presented within it. Chiefly it [...]

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Self-fulfilling prophecy: Dennis Ross Doesn't Think Anything Can Get Accomplished

From On January 19, 2011 · 2 Comments

I was struck by an article by Nathan Guttman in the legendary Jewish Daily Forward about Dennis Ross and George Mitchell jockeying for the position of Obama Administration’s point-person in the Middle East peace process. The whole thing is a fascinating read, but this line really jumped out at me:

Others have [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On January 18, 2011 · 1 Comment

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for January 15-18:

The Wall Street Journal: In his weekly column, neoconservative Bret Stephens acknowledges that the Stuxnet virus appears to have done serious damage to Iran’s nuclear program but, “As of last November, U.N. inspectors reported that Iran continued to enrich uranium in as many as [...]

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Why Did Israel Dial it Down on Iran?

From On January 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

I have a new piece up at Tehran Bureau, the PBS/Frontline project on Iran.

The article is a look into the possible reasons that Israel has pushed back the nuclear timeline for Iran. I quote Tony Karon at length (which appears at TB) and list my own thoughts (some via Jim):

That notion — [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On December 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for December 17, 2010:

Weekly Standard: Michael Weiss attacks the concept of ‘linkage‘ in a long, convoluted piece on the Standard‘s blog. Leading off with an overstatement explanation of linkage (“by resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict most other problems will be resolved”), Weiss goes on to [...]

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Bread and Nukes: Stuxnet's Collateral Damage?

From On December 11, 2010 · 5 Comments

According to a Fox News exclusive, experts think the Stuxnet virus is still wrecking havoc on Iran’s nuclear program, particularly to the centrifuges.

Yet it’s worth considering that even cyber-warfare — like all kinds of warfare — can produce “collateral damage.” The term is a military euphemism, now widely accepted in the lay lexicon, [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On December 3, 2010 · 1 Comment

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for December 3, 2010:

National Review Online: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Benjamin Weinthal blogs on a WikiLeaks cable that had originated in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Apparently, a senior adviser to Angela Merkel, Christoph Heusgen, proposed a quid-pro-quo relationship between Netanyahu ending settlement construction and [...]

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Did Israel Cyber-Attack Iran?

From On November 19, 2010 · 2 Comments

It looks that way — or the Israelis could simply want people to think that. But, whatever the truth, they seem to be coyly admitting to this summer’s massive cyber-attack against Iran.

The New York Times looks back at Stuxnet, the worm that targeted computers in Iran, specifically, those linked to Iran’s centrifuge work [...]

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