Results for “Iranian film A Separation”

…cceed him. The corruption allegations levelled by Mr Ahmadinejad against the Larijani family are deeply damaging to the Iranian regime. Mr Morsi, meanwhile, has little to show Egyptians that he has improved their lot. Cairo is the scene of near-constant street battles and the ec...

…policy goals, and Iran's claim to regional hegemony. There are four likely outcomes to the nuclear issue: a unilateral Iranian decision to halt or dramatically slow its progress toward a nuclear weapon; a negotiated outcome, whether through the P5+1 (1.e., the five permanent mem...

…iations between now and June than the United States was in 2012. But what is clear is that the sanctions have moderated Iranian behavior and rhetoric. At the same time, as the Times also noted, the economic pressure is not nearly great enough to compel concessions that the regime...

24 East. The Iranians evidently hoped that militancy against the west, above all on behalf of the Palestinians, could counteract the league-of- outsiders aspect of their alliance. For a while, this project appeared to be working. The Iran-created and sponsored Hezbollah movement...

…coln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in early May in response to intelligence regarding Iranian military activity. 11 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026955 Source: Investment Strategy Group, navy.mil, New York Times.

… lose?” But beyond this, there is a whole range of relatively moderate countries — and, as Sunni states, strongly anti-Iranian countries — which share with Israel a real, practical interest in putting in place a new political arrangement in the Middle East. So does the United St...

we are not “safe” from it anywhere. Missile systems (principally the Shahab 3 variants and Sejjl types) allow Iran to strike targets throughout the Middle East

the Iranian mullahs and the younger Assad have been sent back to the benches in disgrace. Their counsel is now seen as both morally dubious and pragmatically unwise; the ‘realists’ would have put the US on the wrong side of history in the service of unrealistic assumptions about...

…e Arabs (but not those in Syria) while brutalizing its own seekers of the freedom promised in 1979. Arabs aren’t buying Iranian hypocrisy. Only Iran’s command of Revolutionary Guard force and the opposition’s lack of a shared goal salvage it.

…awi, who is backed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab heavyweights who are eager to topple Maliki - seen as an extension of Iranian influence in the Arab and Muslim world. Iraq remains sharply divided between the prime minister and Allawi. The top seats in the ministries of defense a...

… disposal.” One sometimes hears the argument that if Iran can live with an Israeli bomb, why can’t Israel live with an Iranian bomb? The answer is that no Israeli leader has ever threatened to eradicate Iran. Iran is a large country, but Israel is a tiny one, smaller than New J...

… challenge within the Khomeinist movement establishment. Ahmadinejad also marked some success selling his doctrine of ""Iranian Islam"" as a substitute for the hotchpotch concocted by Ayatollah Khomeini. Translated into 30 languages

…the future of the military junta that replaced him. Add to this the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and the potential rise of Iranian power, and the potential recognition of a Palestinian state - while perfectly logical in an abstract sense - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031917

…h American policymakers and military commanders might feel confident that they could surge forces into the Gulf despite Iranian nuclear threats because of the American nuclear deterrent, Gulf security partners might be more nervous and less willing to cooperate. As a result, they...

… I couldn’t quite believe he was suggesting it. But my reply to this last-gasp suggestion of a way for us to attack the Iranian sites required no hesitation, and only two words: “No way.” Bibi would have known I would oppose such a ploy. But as with so much else in the years I s...