Source: Council on Foreign Relations
March 17, 2010
Interviewee: Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s agenda for her Moscow visit this week includes the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Iran sanctions, and a meeting of the Middle East [...]
Source: Rooz Online
Source: March 17, 2010
In this interview, published by the Panjere magazine, the interviewee is introduced as a person who has been involved in the interrogation and political prosecution of many prominent and lesser known detainees since Iran’s contested presidential election 9 months ago.
Here are the key excerpts [...]
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 17, 2010
In early January, the daily dose of sarcasm that many Iranians had come to depend on in turbulent times disappeared from the blogosphere.
Alireza Rezaei failed to update his popular blog for days, prompting loyal readers to fear the worst. Had [...]
By: Samnak Aghaei
Source: Rooz Online
March 16, 2010
Mohammad Hosseini, Ahmadinejad cabinet’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance, defended his press undersecretary’s massive crackdown on independent and critical publications for the second time in a week two days ago. Noting the reasons behind banning independent and reformist publications, he claimed, “The ministry of [...]
Source: Deutsche Welle
March 15, 2010
The US decision to allow the export of Internet tools to Iran, Cuba and Sudan won’t bring about instant change. But it does make life harder for the censors – and the regimes in question can’t even complain about it.
In a concerted effort to support the [...]
Source: Spiegel Online
March 27, 2010
Fiance of Murdered Iranian Protester Neda
Months after her murder in Tehran, little has been done to investigate the circumstances of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan’s death. Her former fiance, Caspian Makan, who fled the country to avoid being part of a show trial, says he hopes the United [...]
By Michael Ledeen
Source: Pajamas Media
March 15, 2010
The Iranian regime has always dreaded fun. Western music is banned. Unchaperoned boys & girls together is banned. Women showing an ankle or some hair is banned, as is rental of bicycles to the ladies. The color green is banned, whether it’s the green in the [...]
By Tariq Alhomayed
Source: Asharq Al-Awsat
March 10, 2010
Tehran gave the two Russian pilots working for its commercial airline two months to pack up and leave Iran. Of course the ousting of the two Russian pilots from Iran is an indication of a decline in relations between the two countries, especially after Tehran [...]
By Adar Primor
Source: Haaretz
March 15, 2010
BRASILIA – Clara Ant is perhaps the most surprising person in the inner circle of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who Monday begins the first visit to Israel by a Brazilian president. An architect and daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Ant is a [...]
The U.S. can help ensure free Web access in countries like Iran.
By L. Gordon Crovitz
Source: The Wall Street Journal
March 15, 2010
The information battle was so much simpler in the Cold War. U.S. government broadcasting services Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty brought news to people behind the Iron Curtain, playing a key [...]
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