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The Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States, and the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Sayyed Mohamed Marandi
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s interest in a stable Middle East is arguably greater than that of the United States—after all this is Iran’s neighborhood. For Iran to grow and prosper, it needs secure borders and stable neighbors. A poor and unstable Afghanistan, for example, inhibits trade and, potentially, increases the flow of […]
Posted: January 14th, 2011 under ARTICLES, Iran, Middle East, Obama administration, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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Why the demise of the Middle East ‘peace process’ may be a good thing
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on The Christian Science Monitor
Recognizing that a two-state solution is no longer in the cards opens the way for other paths that don’t depend on Western mediation. It puts to rest the fiction that a Palestinian state will emerge from even the best intentions of the West instead of from the political […]
Posted: January 13th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Diplomacy, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mediation, Middle East, Palestinians.
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The expiration of the ‘Peace Process’: Where now for the Middle East?
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
A ‘peace process’ that, from its inception, took Israel’s self-definition of its own security needs as the sole determinate of the walls within which any solution for Palestinians was to be conducted, has reached exhaustion. Based on such a reductive premise, its arrival at this deathly nadir, with no more than […]
Posted: December 20th, 2010 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Gaza, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
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Tourists in Washington: anatomy of an European Mideast failure
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
The ‘weakness’ of Europe — and also that of the US — in the Middle East is not essentially one of waning power and influence. Although the scent of decline always has had a powerful affect in this region, the root of this western debilitation consists of a more profound ailment: […]
Posted: December 13th, 2010 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Europe, Gaza, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
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The True Significance of Ahmadinejad’s Lebanon Visit
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on www.raceforiran.com
Firstly, let us put to one side the nonsense: The President of Iran’s visit was not about embedding Lebanon as a part of the Iranian state, nor was it about paving the way for any Hizbullah ‘take-over’ of Lebanon; and nor can the visit be described as a ‘provocation’. It was […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke.
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Iran and the end of Deference
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, June 2010
The additional sanctions which the Security Council imposed on Iran earlier this month, and the additional sanctions which the United States Congress passed last Thursday, make no sense in terms of policy coherence. No one really believes sanctions will force a change in Iranian […]
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Iran.
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