What did Khomeini know?
Iranian-American scholar Ray Takeyh says new evidence indicates Ayatollah Kho-meini knew all about student plans to seize the American embassy ...
Month: August 2015
Iranian economic reform between Rouhani and the Guards
By Tamer Badawi In early July 2015, President Hassan Rouhani published an open letter to First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, ...
Is Iran’s supreme leader really just a politician?
By Michael Rubin In the Iranian context, the president is about style while the supreme leader is about substance. Or, ...
Obama’s hard sell on Iran
By Robin Wright With the most important foreign-policy initiative of his Presidency at stake, President Obama has gone on the ...
In Washington and Tehran, debate and distrust over nuclear deal
By Haleh Esfandiari and Jason Brodsky Congress is in recess, but around the world many are waiting for its next ...
The Iran deal is a big bet on a revolutionary outlier
By Ray Takeyh The nuclear deal between the United States and Iran is already proving to be one of the ...
The Iran deal’s dangerous precedent
By John R. Bolton Had anyone believed President Obama’s mantra that “all options are on the table” to deal with ...
World Bank says foreign investment will rise—but not by nearly enough
RECOVERY — Auto production is now climbing out of its deep depression. The World Bank forecasts that foreign investment in ...