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Ashraf mentioned the example of demonstrators involved with Iran??€™s Green Movement, which sought last summer to overturn election results that many viewed as potentially fraudulent...
When asked by a member of the audience about his prediction for Isreal’s response to Iran??€™s nuclear weapon program, Eitam—a former Israeli war hero who gained acclaim for his bravery in the Yom Kippur War—responded that it was “almost inevitable that military action will be taken...
Rushdie was famously the subject of a fatwa requiring his execution issued by Iran??€™s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Recently, he has argued for greater rights for Islamic women. In 2006, when British Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw criticized the wearing of the niqab, a veil that covers all of the face except the eyes, Rushdie supported him, saying his three sisters would never wear the veil, and adding: “I think the battle against the veil has been a long and continuing battle against the limitation of women, so in that...
...controversial missile tests didn’t even help the fundamentalist dictatorship assert itself on the international stage—the nation capitulated to Western demands for inspections a few days later. The recent complaisance has us wondering: Is all this uranium enrichment just part of Iran??€™s dark-horse bid to beat out Chicago for the 2016 Olympic Games...
...Iran issue is dauntingly complex and terrifyingly volatile, but not impossible to solve. It is not in Iran??€™s best interests to start an international conflict when the only one on their side is an Iranian public who questions its own government’s legitimacy. Rather than immediately coercing Tehran, Obama should make sure that he continues to adopt a flexible and multilateral foreign policy through negotiation, not alienation...