Obama’s Foreign Policy
While any part of Obama’s globalizaton policies that overlap with any other part of his administration tend to be a disaster (Buy American bills I & II, the sanctions against Mexico, the SNAFU with...
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Iran Unrest on Twitter
If you are not on Twitter, you are missing out on news from the Iranian Election Protests. Important keywords to follow: #CNNFail, #IranElection, #Mousavi, Tehran, Twitter Blasts CNN. It is quite the...
View ArticleGuess not
It seems the analysis, pushed by Tom Barnett and others, that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been building a powerbase separate from and hostile to the mullahs is incorrect. Indeed, Iran’s Supreme Leader...
View ArticleBefore the Deaths
Recently, I had three in-depth online conversations about the events in Tehran. Here is an edited transcript of one of them, a conversation with Jeffrey James. Now that there are confirmed reports of...
View ArticleNow it will be easier to pass on the instructions we get from satellite TV!
This Iranian public service message is such a fascinating mix of situational awareness and paranoid insanity that it may be the best thing since Trapped in the Drive-Thru. I for one like the scene...
View ArticleBefore the Deaths Reach 100
This is a follow-up post to “Before the Deaths,” on the unrest following the Iranian election. One phrase you will be hearing more about is the cycle of mourning. In this video, regime paramilitaries...
View ArticleHer name was Neda
Who was Neda? She was a resident of Tehran killed by the Basij. Neda may be to the Unrest in Iran what the tank man was at Tiananmen. Graphic videos of what the Basij did to her are available here and...
View ArticleYou really should be on Twitter
Here’s how to start: follow @PersianKiwi. I am not the first to say this: following his tweets is like reading an apocalyptic novel, one text message at a time. In the meantime, here is a Basij...
View ArticleBeijing, after 1976 and 1989
In China, Deng won. In Iran, "Deng" is certainly on the side of the protesters. For all the talk of an Iranian Tiananmen, the dynamic in Tehran is much closer ot 1976 (where the...
View ArticleTom is on Fire with Iran posts
No complaints here. All are worth reading. The third pole in Iranian politics is the one that interests me More than one Iranian bomb Tehran and oppression How authoritarian is Iran? Blame Britain The...
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