The Daily Talking Points
News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 8. Wall Street Journal: The neoconservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is ready to declare International Atomic Energy...
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 10. The Washington Post: The Post’s editorial board writes that while sanctions have constricted the Iranian economy, the White House “has...
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 19, 2010. The Washington Post: The Post‘s increasingly neoconservative editorial board, led by Fred Hiatt, is challenging Secretary of...
View ArticleSadjadpour: FM Firing 'little substantive impact'
Our IPS colleague Omid Memarian has a piece up at the wire explaining Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s sudden Monday firing of his foreign minister, Manoucher Mottaki. Memarian’s piece draws on...
View ArticleIran's New Oil Minister Cements Ties with Military
Why does last week’s appointment of a high-ranking member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as the country’s new oil minister matter? Writes Omid Memarian in Inter Press Service: The pressure...
View ArticleWhy Iran’s June Election Will be Different
by Omid Memarian Traditionally, a few months before a presidential election in Iran, the government opens the public sphere, giving more freedom to the press, more space for activists to speak out and...
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