Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Ministry of Education released a report this week detailing that 11,923 students in Gaza have been killed by […]
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Qom Enrichment Facility Revealed; Moves to Sanction Iran gain Momentum
So I did this posting on Thursday night, below, on how I perceive President Obama to be maneuvering Iran into a box, wherein it faced […]
Obama, the UN and Future Iran Sanctions
President Obama is slowly putting Iran in a box. His cancellation of the useless and expensive so-called “missile shield” program in eastern Europe, which had […]
Arguing with Ahmadinejad
Aljazeera English reports on Ahmadinejad’s appearance at the United Nations: IRNA gives lengthy excerpts from Ahmadinejad’s address at the United Nations. ‘ President Ahmadinejad, who […]
Oren and Solomon: Duelfer 5 Years Later: Words of Mass Distraction
Ido Oren and Ty Solomon write in a guest op-ed for IC: Five years ago, Charles Duelfer, Head of the Iraq Survey Group, presented to […]
Obama said Wavering on Troop Escalation in Afghanistan
The NYT says that President Barack Obama is reconsidering his plan to greatly increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan, and to be suffering […]
Obama’s Major Challenges on this Week’s Global Stage; Is his own Senate the Roadblock?
Top challenges for Obama at the United Nations this week, including Tuesday’s climate conference, and then the G20 on Thursday and Friday. In many instances, […]
Are Khamenei and Ahmadinejad Determined to Make Iran a Pariah?
My column is out in Salon.com, on the way in which Khamenei and Ahmadinejad are turning Iran into a pariah state. I warn that if […]
McChrystal Warns of Failure in Afghanistan without More US Troops; Obama not ready to make Decision
There is a serious and growing rift between the Obama White House and the uniformed officers over Afghanistan policy, according to Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karen […]
Khamenei: We Fundamentally Reject Nuclear Weapons
The USG Open Source Center translates Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Eid al-Fitr Sermon, in which he categorically rejects the idea of Iran ever developing, possessing […]