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...Given these rising tensions, what hope is there for a successful diplomatic exchange between the U.S. and Iran next week in Baghdad? "There are powerful forces pushing the two parties into these talks," says Dr. William Samii, a longtime Iran specialist currently with the Center for Naval Analyses, a federally funded non-profit. "But there may be even stronger pressures that will make agreement difficult to reach...
...been close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini. "In the context of Iran's domestic politics, which is the driving force behind Iran's nuclear initiative, Rohani's proposals are significant because they have the imprimatur of the Supreme Leader, who would have approved them in advance," says William Samii, the longtime senior Iran analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...
...important, if implicit message to Washington in Rohani's declaration," says Samii, "is you may not like hardline President Ahmadinejad, but we do have more pragmatic leaders with concrete proposals, like Rohani, whom you have known for years, and whom you can deal with now if you want. His proposals amount to recognition of Washington's concerns...
When a group of Harvard faculty and administrators traveled to Iran in the fall of 1974, Iranian minister of science and higher education Abdol Samii showed them a site on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi wished to see a graduate research facility built on the remote site, Samii said. The shah desired to name it Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), in honor of his father, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty...
...Samii had invited the Harvard party to visit Iran because the Shah wanted "the oldest and most prestigious University in the United States" to plan the center. Harvard charged the Shah $400,000 to undertake a feasibility study of the project, an agreement that resulted in the 1975 publication of an Academic Planning Report. In 1976, Harvard signed a new contract with the Shah, agreeing, for $500,000, to design a master plan for RSKU. The new university was to be based largely on the present structure of Harvard. "We have modified the forms of the Harvard boards to adapt...
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