By Heshmat Alavi - December 3rd, 2016 The West, specifically the United States, must close the book on over three decades of appeasement with Iran, said Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi at a conference in Paris on Saturday, November 26. If the international community is serious about … [Read more...] about Decades old appeasement policy vis-à-vis Iran must end
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21 years imprisonment for revealing an audio clip about massacre in Iran
By Heshmat Alavi Ahmad Montazeri, son of the late Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri (former deputy supreme leader and successor of Iranian regime founder mullah Ruhollah Khomeini) was tried in the Supreme Disciplinary Court for Judges, for publishing an audio clip of his father’s meeting with the … [Read more...] about 21 years imprisonment for revealing an audio clip about massacre in Iran
Can propaganda save the threadbare Iran appeasement policy?
By AMIR BASIRI • 12/1/16 With President Obama's administration expiring in a few weeks, the Iranian regime, its lobbies in the United States and Iran apologists with vested interest in the continuation of rapprochement with Tehran have initiated a widespread propaganda campaign to avoid losing … [Read more...] about Can propaganda save the threadbare Iran appeasement policy?
Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Giuliani’s Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group
By ROBERT G. TORRICELLI November 28, 2016 Last week, Politico published an article critiquing the Mujahidin e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian resistance group, and the U.S. politicians who support it, especially former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. As a former Democratic member of the Senate Foreign … [Read more...] about Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Giuliani’s Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group
Iran-backing yellow journalism in the U.S.
By Heshmat Alavi The likes of Daniel Benjamin, former counterterrorism chief in the U.S. State Department, and Daniel Larison, known to write for Iran’s lobby against its opposition, have recently resorted to a new low standard of yellow and biased journalism. … [Read more...] about Iran-backing yellow journalism in the U.S.
On Trump’s Presidential Victory: Losing Graciously and Winning Humbly
Originally posted in the Huffington Post If politics were like sports, the losers would take their losses graciously; but Washington politics are not like sports. Some still appear to have a difficult time at accepting the results of the presidential election, but they should not act like an … [Read more...] about On Trump’s Presidential Victory: Losing Graciously and Winning Humbly
Iran Lobby’s Yellow and Biased Smear Campaign Against MEK
By Shahriar Kia - Thu November 24, 2016 Tehran has taken nearly full control over Baghdad thanks to the Obama Middle East Doctrine, blueprinted to deliver a series of incentives to Iran aimed at preventing the mullahs from walking away from the already flawed nuclear deal. One victim of such a … [Read more...] about Iran Lobby’s Yellow and Biased Smear Campaign Against MEK
Iran lobby in U.S. resorting to yellow journalism
Dan Benjamin’s anti Iranian opposition, MEK, tirade is a pathetic reaction to his rebuke by Secretary Clinton and US Congress, and the American people’s rejection of failed policy of appeasing the ayatollahs November 23, 2016 Reading through Daniel Benjamin’s vitriolic, holier-than-thou, screed, … [Read more...] about Iran lobby in U.S. resorting to yellow journalism
Trump’s Iran policy can finally correct for Obama, Bush failures
Originally published in The Hill The U.S. presidential elections and the victory of Donald Trump alludes to the end to a long era. After all, Iran benefited significantly from the past 16 years of appeasement adopted by the past two U.S. administrations. MAJOR MISTAKES UNDER TWO PRESIDENTS George … [Read more...] about Trump’s Iran policy can finally correct for Obama, Bush failures