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Iran Democracy Project Op-eds

December 28, 2007 | Washington Post (registration required)

The Right Way to Engage Iran

As the year draws to a close, it's important to note that the U.S. debate on Iran is stalled, trapped between "regime changers" vs. "arms controllers," "hawks" vs. "doves," and "idealists" vs. "realists..."

November 17, 2007 | Boston Review

Pious Populist

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won a surprise election victory in 2005, has descended into infamy in the United States as a dangerous demagogue and an anti-Semite...

May 15, 2007 | ABC 7 News (CA)

Iran-U.S. Talks Offer Some Hope

The U.S. and Iran talk tough, but they are talking, even as Iran's president and Vice President Dick Cheney trade barbs...

March 28, 2007 | ABC 7 News (CA)

CA Lawmakers To End Iran Financial Ties

California lawmakers took the first step toward dumping $24 billion dollars in investments in companies that do business with Iran...

March 29, 2007 | San Francisco Chronicle

British captives shown on TV

Diplomatic tensions between London and Tehran continued to rise Wednesday, as British officials demanded the release of 15 of its sailors and marines captured by Iranian forces and decried the captives' appearance on Iranian television...

March 26, 2007 | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

China, Russia Call on Iran to Heed U.N. Nuclear Demands

Four days after Iran seized 15 British sailors and marines in the Persian Gulf and took them to Tehran for questioning, Iran showed no sign of backing down from its foreign minister's tough words yesterday...

February 27, 2007 | ABC 7 News (CA)

U.S. Launches New Talks To Secure Iraq

There's been a dramatic shift in policy in the search for peace in Iraq: the Bush administration has agreed to official talks with Iran and Syria...

February 23, 2007 | Huffington Post

No False Choices: Chuck Hagel's Foreign Policy Roadmap

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) yesterday afternoon gave an important speech on US-Iran relations at the University of Nebraska at Kearney's James E. Smith Conference on World Affairs...

February 23, 2007 | New York Times (registration required)

What Scares Iran’s Mullahs?

Iran has once again defied the United Nations by proceeding with enrichment activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported yesterday...

February 6, 2007 | Christian Science Monitor

Iran's weakened hard-liners crave a US attack

From the rhetoric of President Bush to his dispatch of Patriot air-defense systems and a second carrier battle group to the Persian Gulf, there are growing signs that the Bush administration is showing its willingness to solve the Iranian nuclear crisis with a preemptive military attack...