Sir John Chilcot delivers highly critical verdict on Iraq war but ex-PM says: ‘I believe we made the right decision’
A defiant Tony Blair defended his decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 following the publication of a devastating report by Sir John Chilcot, which mauled the ex-prime minister’s reputation and said that at the time of the 2003 invasion Saddam Hussein “posed no imminent threat”. Read More »
By: Seth Slabaugh
MUNCIE — In June of 2015, Ball State University professor Ken Holland joined a delegation of senior U.S. higher education representatives on an educational diplomacy trip to Iran. Read More »
THE GUARDIAN-
Iran’s supreme leader is attacking president Rouhani as part of a drive to eliminate moderates and reformists, argues prominent investigative journalist
BY:Akbar Ganji –
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the country’s diplomats in Tehran, Iran, on 1 November. Photograph: Uncredited/AP
A speech by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on 7 October to commanders and officers of Iran’s navy attracted wide international attention. Khamenei declared that he had banned any negotiations with the United States about non-nuclear issues.
THE DAILY BEAST-
BY:Shane Harris –
A company that works for American spies and generals has quietly started providing Internet service to the Islamic Republic. What’s going on here?
BY CHUCK FREILICH
The utter failure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s irresponsible and delusional attempt to defeat an American president’s foremost foreign policy initiative, the Iran nuclear deal, on his home turf, is evident in the political carnage left in its wake.
By Tehran Bureau
The new party may not stand in February’s parliamentary election, but it’s up and running with its eyes on a broad coalition
The Islamic Iranian National Alliance party, the first reformist party permitted to form since the disputed 2009 presidential election, has its eyes on February’s parliamentary election.
President Hassan Rouhani is having a hard time convincing people in Iran that he can match his spectacular success in foreign policy with domestic policy. His Reformist backers are criticizing him for not doing enough to open up the political space, and ordinary people are complaining about lack of improvements in the economy. To do well in the upcoming February 2016 parliamentary election, he needs to convince voters that he can deliver on his chief economic promise: to grow the economy and create jobs.
BY KIM GHATTAS
Massoumeh Ebtekar and Hossein Sheikholeslam both were radical Islamist students who took part in the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Over three decades later, they’re political rivals battling to define the future of the Islamic Republic.
By Rob Prince
Senator Ben Cardin
A prescription for fueling an intensified Middle-East arms race
The Iran deal: what the Obama Administration giveth, Congress (tries to) taketh away?
In the aftermath of Congress’s failure to sabotage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the agreement negotiated between six countries, the EU and Iran to limit the Iranian nuclear energy program in return for lifting sanctions – the Obama Administration, along with its partners in the agreement, have pushed ahead to implement it. But is this a case of “What the Obama Administration giveth, the Congress taketh away?
BY GARETH PORTER
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s address at the UN General Assembly and a talk the previous night to about 150 Americans touted the recent nuclear breakthrough as a precedent for further diplomatic accommodation with the United States. But both speeches also called on Washington to change its policy toward the conflicts in the Middle East.
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