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Fighting between Hamas and Israel in Gaza is usually a political cash cow for Iran’s leaders. But by their own standards, Iranian leaders have remained curiously quiet on the ongoing, month-long fight. Why?
And Yet Another Great Satan
Having made some important concessions on the proposed nuclear fuel swap with Brazil and Turkey, Iran now seems to have compensated by taking a harder line at home ahead of the June 12 anniversary of last year’s election. Iran signed onto the Brazilian-Turkish deal, marking a significant concession from Iran’s previous position which had demanded […]
Israel, Gaza and Iran: Trapping Obama in Imagined Fault Lines
NIAC President Dr. Trita Parsi wrote this article for the “Huffington Post” on January 13, 2009. In talking about the assault on Gaza, neo-conservative pundits and Israeli hardliners have relied on a familiar frame. The fighting in Gaza, they say, is a struggle between Israel and so-called “moderate” Arab states (namely, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi […]