By Masoud Shafaee
16 Nov 2009 |
World Politics Review
It remains uncertain whether Iran will ultimately accept the agreement that negotiators in Geneva drafted late last month to send Iran's stockpiled enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. But the deliberations in Tehran have made one thing clear: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under enormous domestic pressure from all sides to reject the P5+1 deal.
By Masoud Shafaee
03 Sep 2009 |
World Politics Review
A
s uncertainty has given way to acceptance regarding a second term for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many -- including U.S. President Barack Obama
-- are stressing the need to continue engaging Iran in hopes of curbing
its nuclear program. But both engagement and further sanctions risk casting
the U.S. as precisely that which the Iranian regime has so far been
unable to: an interfering Western power.
By Masoud Shafaee
20 Jul 2009 |
World Politics Review
Despite post-election speculation on the prospects for a second Iranian
revolution, the current situation more closely resembles a civil rights
movement. The choice before Iran is that between a more open, but still-controlled
society on the one hand, and a police state on the other. But at present, Iran's supreme leader is unwilling -- or unable -- to let the country move
in either direction.