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The Point of No Return:
Iran's Path to Democracy
Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian society has been transformed. Urbanism, literacy, industrial growth, international contact, and involvement by women in social and economic affairs have all increased, pushing the country toward democracy. Intellectual life is no longer dominated by revolutionary ideas, but rather by a new paradigm of liberalism
Apr 6, 2006
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  • Mohsen Sazegara
Confronting Iran
On March 7, 2006, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon addressed the Hudson Institute. General Yaalon, a distinguished military fellow at The Washington Institute, is the former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff. The following is the prepared text of General Yaalon’s speech. Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Islamist
Mar 7, 2006
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  • Moshe Yaalon
The United States Capitol Building
Articles & Testimony
Iran: The 'Least Bad' Options for Limiting the Growing Threats
How can Washington best communicate its assessments of Iran's nuclear and terror threats to a skeptical public, and what are the best policy options for addressing those dangers?
Mar 2, 2006
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  • Patrick Clawson
Articles & Testimony
Patterns of Discontent:
Will History Repeat in Iran?
While international attention is focused on Iran's nuclear program and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bombast, Iranian society itself is facing turbulent times. Increasingly, patterns are re-emerging that mirror events in the years before the Islamic revolution. These include political disillusionment, domestic protest, government failure to match public expectations of economic success
Mar 1, 2006
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  • Patrick Clawson
Brief Analysis
Miscommunication between Iranian Society and the West on Iran's Nuclear Program
In recent months, the growing controversy surrounding the Iranian nuclear program and Western suspicions about the military intentions of the Iranian regime has reached a crucial phase. A serious problem for the Western campaign to press the Islamic Republic about its nuclear program is that Iranian society has been indifferent
Feb 10, 2006
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  • Mehdi Khalaji
Brief Analysis
Addicted to Oil:
The State of the Union and the Middle East
In his January 31 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush declared that America was "addicted to oil" and urged spending on technologies "to break [that] addiction." Noting that oil is often imported from unstable parts of the world, he set a goal of replacing more than 75
Feb 8, 2006
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  • Simon Henderson
In-Depth Reports
The Iranian Moment
Although the election of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came as a shock to many observers, it actually represented the final step in a gradual shift within the country's political mainstream. The conservatives now control all levers of power in the Islamic Republic, with opposing factions effectively neutralized. And while the
Feb 6, 2006
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  • Frederic Tellier
Articles & Testimony
Deter and Contain:
Dealing with a Nuclear Iran
Testimony before the House Committee on Armed Services Conclusions Efforts to deter and contain a nuclear Iran would likely encounter significant challenges. The nature of the Islamic Republic, regional politics, and Iran’s involvement in terrorism make establishing a stable deterrent relationship with a nuclear Iran risky and uncertain. The experience
Feb 1, 2006
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  • Michael Eisenstadt
Brief Analysis
America and the Middle East, circa 2006
On January 11, 2006, James F. Hoge Jr. and Stuart Rothenberg addressed The Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum. Mr. Hoge is the Peter G. Peterson chair at the Council on Foreign Relations and editor of its flagship journal, Foreign Affairs. Mr. Rothenberg is editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political
Jan 25, 2006
Articles & Testimony
Inaction Would Enable This 'Young Stalin' to Grow Bigger
Iran's move yesterday to restart work at the controversial Natanz uranium enrichment plant is extremely rash. Even the normally urbane Mohammed El Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said "the world was running out of patience" with Iran. Tehran, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, appears
Jan 11, 2006
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  • Simon Henderson
Brief Analysis
Iran's Air Forces:
Struggling to Maintain Readiness
Recent events, including the launch of Iran's first space imaging satellite, the announcement that Russia is selling Iran twenty-nine Tor-M1 (SA-15 Gauntlet) mobile short-range surface-to-air missile systems for $700 million, and the crash of an air force C-130 transport plane into an apartment block in Tehran, have focused attention on
Dec 22, 2005
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  • Farzin Nadimi
Brief Analysis
The Elephant in the Gulf:
Arab States and Iran's Nuclear Program
At the annual summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), held in Abu Dhabi on December 18 and 19, the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Oman avoided confronting Iran directly on its suspected nuclear weapons program. Instead, these member states confronted Israel
Dec 21, 2005
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  • Simon Henderson
Brief Analysis
What Else Can Be Done about Iran's Nuclear Program?
On November 18, 2005, Michael Eisenstadt, Patrick Clawson, and Henry Sokolski discussed policy options regarding Iran's nuclear program in light of the November 24 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the publication of Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran (U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute)
Nov 23, 2005
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  • Michael Eisenstadt
  • Patrick Clawson
Brief Analysis
Tehran's Renewed War on Culture
After a period of some tolerance under former president Mohammad Khatami, Iran is now experiencing a cultural clampdown. President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad is implementing the hardest of hardline ideological tendencies in the cultural arena, consistent with his belief that his administration should prepare the country for the reappearance of the hidden
Nov 21, 2005
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  • Mehdi Khalaji
Brief Analysis
Countries of Particular Concern:
Religious Freedom and the Middle East
On November 8, the State Department released the International Religious Freedom Report, its annual survey of religious freedom across the world ( read the report online). Several of the designated "countries of particular concern" (CPCs) are in the Middle East: Iran, Sudan, and embarrassingly, in light of longstanding close diplomatic
Nov 17, 2005
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  • Simon Henderson
Brief Analysis
Supreme Leader Khamenei's Responsibility for Iran's Present Situation
Mohsen Sazegara, recently a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute and now at Yale University, posted on several Persian-language websites (including gooya.com) a long open letter to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hossein Khamenei. Below are translated extracts from that letter. Dear Mr. Khamenei: Let go of these strange thoughts
Nov 7, 2005
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  • Mohsen Sazegara
Articles & Testimony
Slow and Steady, Bush's Mideast Race
The Bush administration has many problems to keep it preoccupied in its remaining three years, including the challenges of post-Katrina reconstruction and a massive budget deficit. Plus the president and the Republicans in Congress have been weighed down by allegations of misconduct. So it is hardly surprising that some worry
Nov 4, 2005
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  • Patrick Clawson
In-Depth Reports
Eternal Iran:
Continuity and Chaos
Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous. From the struggle between the Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini to the current tension between the reformers and traditionalists, a central issue
Nov 1, 2005
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  • Patrick Clawson
Brief Analysis
Creating Effective International Pressure for Human Rights in Iran
On November 2, the UN General Assembly's Third Committee is due to consider a Canadian resolution condemning Iran for human rights violations. A similar resolution was approved by the General Assembly in 2004 by a vote of 71-54 with fifty-five abstentions. Iran's human rights violations have recently worsened, and the
Oct 26, 2005
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  • Mehdi Khalaji
Brief Analysis
A Bedouin on a Camel?
Saudi Foreign Policy and the Insurgency in Iraq
Iraq's interior minister, Bayan Jabr, lashed out at Saudi diplomacy while speaking to journalists in Amman on October 2. Referring to Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, Jabr said Iraq would not be lectured by "some Bedouin riding a camel." Broadening his remarks to the Saudi ruling family, the
Oct 5, 2005
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  • Simon Henderson

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Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran poses the most serious and urgent set of security challenges to the United States and its allies in the greater Middle East. Since the Khomeini revolution in 1979, Iran has sought to export its radical ideology through the use of terrorism, subversion, and support to ideological fellow-travelers throughout the Muslim world.

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Farzin Nadimi
Farzin Nadimi
Farzin Nadimi, a Senior Fellow with The Washington Institute, is a Washington-based analyst specializing in the security and defense affairs of Iran and the Persian Gulf region.
Patrick Clawson
Patrick Clawson
Patrick Clawson is the Morningstar Senior Fellow and Research Counselor at The Washington Institute.
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