Israel, Iran and the Bomb
Jonathan Schell & Martin J. Sherwin : Israel
Israel and the Mideast are approaching a stark choice: nuclear holocaust or a nuclear-free region.
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Letter From Iran
Robert Dreyfuss
Iranians' attitudes toward Ahmadinejad range from sullen tolerance to bitter hostility.
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Shirin Ebadi: Don't Attack Iran
Robert Dreyfuss : Human Rights
The Nobel Prize-winning activist says US threats, regime-change rhetoric and efforts to promote democracy only give Iran's leaders an excuse to intensify repression.
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Hillary's Iran Insanity
Talking Points Memo : Hillary Clinton
How did Hillary go from being simply hawkish on Iran to becoming completely hellbent on its destruction?
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The Intemperate Candidate
Robert Scheer : Presidential Election 2008
Hillary Clinton's intemperate remarks about "obliterating" Iran cloud her primary win with questions about her judgment.
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The Lessons of Basra
Robert Dreyfuss : Iraq War
The latest round of Iraq's Shiite vs. Shiite civil war was to have been Bush's defining moment. The result: utter humiliation for the US and the Iraqi government.
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Iraq's Iranian Lovefest
Robert Scheer : Media Analysis
Ahmadinejad's triumphal visit to Baghdad highlights the abject failure of the Bush doctrine. But US media yawned.
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Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?
Robert Dreyfuss : Middle East
Maybe. But Iraqis mistrust Iran as much as they do the United States.
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Bush's Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up
Gareth Porter : Argentina
The Bush Administration cites a 1994 bombing in Argentina to tar Iran as a sponsor of global terror. But a fresh probe finds no evidence of an Iran connection.
2007
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State of the World 2008
The United Nations' chief troubleshooter and mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, considers what should come next in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and how US foreign foreign policy went so far astray.
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Iran's Nukes Fade Away
The revised National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nukes makes a military strike less likely and opens the door to real diplomacy.
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Bush on Iran: Fool Me Twice
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Despite new evidence on Iran's nuclear ambitions, President Bush is sticking to his story--an inflated threat assessment some leading Democrats have bought into.
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The Iranian Challenge
Trita Parsi : US Foreign Policy
To change Iran's behavior, we must first change our own.
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The New American Imperium
The Democrats appear to be anti-Iraq War. But they surely are not acting like opponents of imperial overreach.
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Pre-empt Preventive War
: Iraq War
The path back to sanity begins by repealing the Kyl-Lieberman amendment and prohibiting military action in Iran without Congressional approval.
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How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
Peace activists are reaching out to US military officials to dampen the Bush Administration's ardor for attacking Iran.
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A Plea From the Iranian People
Iran's leading dissident implores UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reprimand the Iranian government for its human rights abuses and provide moral support for the suffering Iranian people.
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Will the US Really Bomb Iran?
It would be foolish to bet that an attack on Iran couldn't happen.
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The Iranian Impasse
Janet Afary & Kevin B. Anderson : Islam & Muslims
Five new books explore the failed progressive movements in Iran, and the dilemma the US left faces today.
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Crackdown in Iran
H. Abrishami : US Foreign Policy
Thanks in part to Condi Rice's machinations to foment regime change in Iran, three innocent people are now charged with espionage.
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Iran Nukes Call Bush's Bluff
Robert Scheer : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Tehran's religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.
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Trying to Stay Out of Iran
Does Congress have the strength to prevent Bush from going to war with Iran?
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How to Stop a Showdown With Iran
There's no way of knowing if the White House is planning war in Iran. But stopping Bush from sparking intentional or accidental war requires the promotion of democracy--this time at home--in a way that allows public opinion to shape policy.
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Collision Course With Iran
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich : US Foreign Policy
Instead of using diplomacy to defuse nuclear tensions with Iran, the Bush Administration is seeking to bypass Congress and lay the groundwork for an attack.
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Targeting Tehran
As the Bush Administration steps up its campaign against Iran, opponents have a dual responsibility: to contest the strategic context for escalation and to bar specific acts of aggression.
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War Drums on Iran
To rein in the President's efforts to provoke a confrontation with Iran, Congress can start by nullifying his authority to wage war.
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Sold to Mr. Gordon, Another Bridge!
Alexander Cockburn : Media Analysis
The New York Times's credulous reporting of flimsy "evidence" regarding Iranian weapons in Iraq is enabling Bush's anti-Iran propaganda drive.
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War Drums on Iran
: Iraq
Congress and the media must challenge unsourced White House allegations of Iran's involvement in Iraq or risk a disastrous, widening war.
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Thelma and Louise Imperialism
Are Bush and Cheney so wedded to their delusions that they might gun the car and head directly over the cliff in a confrontation with Iran?
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Feith-Libby Lies Exposed
A new Pentagon report documents how the Bush Administration fooled us once with lies about Iraq's Al Qaeda ties. Will that keep them from fooling us again on Iran?
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Stop the Iran War Before It Starts
President Bush's State of the Union address proved he is hellbent on going to war with Iran. Here's what the Democrats must do to stop him.
2006
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The Case for Engagement
Scott Ritter : US Foreign Policy
If US officials stopped their saber-rattling over Iran's nuclear ambitions and began to negotiate directly, they would have an eye-opening experience.
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What's Left of Reform
Negar Azimi : US Foreign Policy
As Iran and the United States trade insults and America presses for Iranians to rise up, educators, students and women's rights groups may pay the greatest cost.
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War Signals?
Dave Lindorff : George W. Bush Administration
As a strike group of six US naval vessels prepares to deploy to the Persian Gulf, wary critics of the Bush Administration and members of the military are raising flags that an "October surprise" attack on Iran may be imminent. Others are skeptical.
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Déjà Vu on Iran?
The Bush Administration is trying to use flawed intelligence to whip up public support for military action against Iran. Can they get away with this again?
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Bunkum From Benador
Larry Cohler-Esses : Journalists & Journalism
The debunking of a PR agency that circulated a bogus story about persecution of Jews in Iran exposed the moving parts of a media machine bent on preparing the American public for another war.
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Using Soccer to Kick Iran
Dave Zirin & John Cox : Sports
To World Cup aficionados, soccer is a beautiful game, but to ideologues in the United States and Europe, it's a convenient political weapon against Iran's nuclear ambitions. Talk about spoilsports.
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Woman Warrior
Reza Aslan : Autobiography & Memoir
Iran Awakening is the memoir of Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to hold Iran's clerical regime accountable for its gross human rights violations.
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Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Congress
Congress and the American people must challenge the Administration's assertion that the President can take military action without consulting Congress.
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Talking Points for a Nuclear Strike
Nicholas von Hoffman : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
If the Bush Administration is serious about dropping an atomic bomb on Iran, it's really going to have to work on selling the concept.
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Learning to Love the Bomb
William Greider : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Could the world learn to live with a nuclear Iran? A new power equation of nuclear proliferation is emerging to challenge the Bush Administration's bluster on the subject.
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Defusing the Iran Crisis
Michael T. Klare : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
A peaceful resolution to the nuclear dispute with Iran is possible if world leaders work to eliminate the obstacles to intelligent compromise.
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Storm Clouds Over Iran
Richard Falk : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
The confrontation with Iran is a wakeup call to states that possess nuclear weapons: In a world of nuclear apartheid, multilateral disarmament is the only course of action that can succeed.
2005
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An Oil-Slicked Playing Field
The scramble for petroleum by developing countries worldwide is reshaping global geopolitics in favor of oil-rich nations like Iran, Venezuela and Sudan.
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Letter From Iran
While his ideological style may be rough, is Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the fire-breathing conservative that the mainstream Western media makes of him?
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Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
Dilip Hiro : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
By insisting on its right to develop the full range of nuclear technology, Iran has become a Third World hero.
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Witnesses to an Execution
Richard Kim : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
An international furor over the hanging of "two gay teenagers" in Iran.
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The Treason of the Clerics
Jonathan Rée : Islam & Muslims
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution details the story of Foucault's induction into journalism as a political correspondent in Iran.
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The Iran War Buildup
Michael T. Klare : George W. Bush Administration
The building blocks for an attack in Iran are beginning to be put into place.
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Iraq's Dangerous New Friend
Is it surprising to find the Iraqi government looking for help from powerful Iran?
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Iranian Revolution Is Thriving in Iraq
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
Did those wily ayatollahs give us the purple finger again?
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The Force Bush Won't Use on Iran
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
Bush's policies have left the leaders of Iran defending a more logical position than that of our own government.
2004
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Days of Rage
It has been more than two decades since the Iran hostage crisis drove a permanent wedge between the US and its former ally Iran.
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Still Dreaming of Tehran
Robert Dreyfuss & Laura Rozen : US Foreign Policy
The neocons haven't given up on "regime change" in Iran. Don't count them out.
2003
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Letter From Iran
Hope has turned to bitterness as reform efforts have been crushed by the regime.
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A Death in Iran
When Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi flew to her native country of Iran last spring, little did she know that covering the student protests would be her final assignment.
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