Ali Safavi, Washington Examiner, 19 May 2017 Friday’s presidential election in Iran represents anything but a genuine process like that expected by the average American. In Iran’s theocratic state, the supreme leader (a cleric called vali-e faqih) enjoys the final say on all matters. That
Alireza Jafarzadeh, Foreign Policy Blog, 22 February 2017 Barely a week after President Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president, Iran commenced another round of ballistic missiles to test his tough campaign rhetoric. The most recent launch took place even after the administration officially put
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Ali Safavi, Huffington Post, 14 February 2017 Last month, the US imposed new sanctions on Iranian entities involved in weapons procurement. The move came two days after the administration of Donald Trump officially put the regime “on notice” for its provocative ballistic missile tests. In response,
Ali Safavi, The Hill, 9 February 2017 By testing their ballistic missiles in a provocative act last month, Iran’s ayatollahs also tested the resolve of the new U.S. president. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s promise of swift action should violations continue has turned the Obama
Benjamin’s repeats his defamatory MEK narrative Background As the President-elect’s transition team began to vet potential candidates in November for top cabinet posts, several key figures sympathetic to a more firm policy on Iran were reported to be leading contenders. With growing speculation that the
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The article, “Accused in ’70s of U.S. military slayings, Iran group has friends in Trump’s circle,” (McClatchy, DC, Nov. 17), a gross misrepresentation of indisputable historical facts, has rehashed a litany of stale and oft-repeated allegations, originally concocted by the Iranian regime, against the ruling
Iran Regime Apologists Grasp at Straws Regarding the MEK Text of the letter to the Editor of the Politico by Soona Samsami, the U.S. Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, on November 23, 2016 Dear Editor,Daniel Benjamin’s 3,326-word tirade (Giuliani Took Money
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Soona Samsami, 17 November 2016 The article, “Accused in ’70s of U.S. military slayings, Iran group has friends in Trump’s circle,” (McClatchyDC, Nov. 17), a gross misrepresentation of indisputable historical facts, has rehashed a litany of stale and oft-repeated allegations, originally concocted by the Iranian
By Alireza Jafarzadeh IJR, October 26, 2016
In recent weeks, bombs dropped by the governments of Bashar Assad and his allies have killed and mutilated innocents – men, women, and children – in Syria’s Aleppo. The horrific shelling is Assad’s attempt to force a wholesale surrender from the opposition movement in Syria; Assad seeks to crush his ….
By Ali Safavi, Ny Daily News, March 28, 2016
The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Welcome to U.S. foreign policy towards Iran The endless repetition of failed policy choices with respect to Tehran — spread across presidential administrations of both parties….