July 25, 2010

Iranian Nuclear Defector: A Policy Failure

The CIA has revealed that Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear "scientist" who returned back to Tehran, was one of the sources for the much disputed "National Intelligence Estimate" in 2007. Amiri's return has embarrassed the CIA, g...

May 16, 2010

The Pro-engagement Lobby and US Failure with Iran

Three words best define the policies of the United States toward Iran in the past 32 years: naiveté, surprise and failure.  Ironically however, the rest of the world has been looking to the US for guidance and leadership on how to deal wi...

January 8, 2010

The Strange New Friend of the Iranian Demonstrators

As the Iranian uprising enters its seventh month and spurs the ruling regime's disintegration, the Iranian community in the U.S. is witnessing a peculiar sideshow. Some of the "Iran experts" who had relentlessly preached friendship and coex...

December 10, 2009

A Seat at the Table

By purporting to represent the Iranian-American community, Trita Parti has gained access to the corridors of power in Washington. In September 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited a group of "Iran experts" to a dinner to discuss...

December 3, 2009

Trita Parsi Reports to Tehran

In 2008, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and its president Trita Parsi filed a defamation lawsuit against me. The discovery process has unearthed very valuable documents that clarify the working of NIAC and the relation of its president ...

August 30, 2009

The Future of the Iran Lobby

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York, in late September to attend the United Nation General Assembly, he will find his advocate lobby in the US as devastated as the Iranian regime itself. The Iranian Lobby in the US is shaken to its foundatio...

January 25, 2009

Questions about a New Conference on Iran

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University will be hosting a two-day conference1 on the theme of "The Iranian Revolution: Thirty Years" on the weekend of February 7-8th, 2009. Judging by the selection of speakers and consid...

March 11, 2008

The NIE and Iranian Internal Politics

Since its release in December 2007, the National intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian nuclear program has become the subject of political debate and fierce discussions. Much has been told about its negative impacts on US and international unity...

October 15, 2007

The Iranian Lobby and the Israeli Decoy

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the Qods Day (Jerusalem Day) celebration, which was commemorated on October 5 in Iran, suggested the settlement of Israeli Jews in big lands like Alaska or Canada. Evidently, the more the Iranian regime is co...