Expect the Unexpected for Iran’s 2013 Presidential Election
via Lobe Log Sociologists sometimes get lucky. In June 2009 I arrived in Tehran for a routine research trip. Over the next several months I witnessed the largest political demonstrations in Iran since...
View ArticleLow Chance for Nuclear Deal Before Iran’s 2013 Presidential Election
via Lobe Log After the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) in Moscow last June, dialogue at the senior political level was put on ice...
View ArticleFormer Insiders Criticise Iran Policy as U.S. Hegemony
by Gareth Porter via IPS News A review of Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett’s “Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran” (Metropolitan Books,...
View ArticleObama’s Near East Trip: Time to be Bold
via Lobe Log by Robert E. Hunter The stakes in President Barak Obama’s impending visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan have risen steadily in recent days. It is taking take place, after all, almost...
View ArticleOn Our “Now What?” Moment
via Lobe Log by Farideh Farhi From the looks of it, the second round of talks with Iran in Almaty, Kazakhstan was a complete failure, with both sides unable to even find a common language to begin a...
View ArticleIs Time on Iran’s Side?
via Lobe Log by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani The latest round of talks between the P5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany) and Iran in Kazakhstan concluded on Saturday without any tangible...
View ArticleWhy Iran’s June Election Will be Different
via Lobe Log 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...
View ArticleThe Politics of Participation in Iran
via LobeLog by Shervin Malekzadeh Millions of Iranians will gather in the coming days to watch their country take on the world in something other than politics. Against the odds, against Argentina, and...
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