Iran

The Phases of War: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel

April 2012

The U.S. is 11 years into its current war in Afghanistan and still losing. We never had a chance to "win" this war of vengeance – and while few in Washington are ready to admit that, they’ve continued to revise and redefine just what "winning" might look like.

Could there really be a war against Iran?

February 2012

Phyllis Bennis

Although political brinksmanship with Iran is nothing new, escalating tensions do not bode well for the region.

The Emerging Geo-Strategic Landscape in Central Asia

June 2011

Ross Eventon

Recent developments in Afghanistan suggest the New Great Game is intensifying in Central Asia.

The “Arab 1848”: Reflections on US Policy & the Power of Nonviolence

February 2011

Tom Reifer

The uprising in the Arab world shows, along with being a textbook example of nonviolence as a mechanism of democratic social change, the crude results of a US policy based on dictatorship promotion.

What can we expect to see in 2011?

January 2011

Changing global power balances, continuing crises, Iran, Afghanistan. Four TNI fellows share their predictions for 2011.

Can a Security Council "Coalition of the Unwilling" Defy Washington's Sanctions Crusade?

May 2010

Phyllis Bennis

Renewed U.S. efforts to bring sanctions against Iran are more backlash for being snubbed in favour of a tripartite deal with Turkey and Brazil than they are about nuclear proliferation. A UN Security Council coalition may be able to block U.S. pressure for sanctions that would only punish...

Barack Obama, Iran, and the nuclear danger

October 2009

Mariano Aguirre

The tensions over Iran's nuclear programme resemble the prelude to the Iraq war of 2003. But the new conditions of international politics could yet be turned to advantage in finding...

Iran’s tide of history: counter-revolution and after

July 2009

TNI

Fred Halliday

Iran's regime has made huge efforts to crush the country’s demonstrating citizens. But their heroic and lucid protests have opened a path to the future via a reconnection with Iran’s true revolutionary past, says Fred Halliday.

It is already five weeks since the presidential elections...

Democracy-promotion: doctrine vs dialogue

July 2009

Mariano Aguirre

George W Bush made democracy-support a central theme of his presidency. Barack Obama, by contrast, has downplayed it. Yet the latter's approach may achieve more effective results.

Changing the discourse: first step toward changing the policy?

June 2009

Phyllis Bennis

Obama's Cairo speech shifted the discourse, away from justifying reckless imperial hubris, unilateralism and militarism and towards a more cooperative and potentially even internationalist approach. It is the task of people across the US to mobilise and turn that new language into new policies...