Iran
Britain's Gordon Brown could learn from the Iranian government that there's a simple way to ensure the U.S. will never ignore him again.
October 7, 2009 The manufactured crisis over Iran's supposed "nuclear capabilities" has echoes of the U.S. case for invading Iraq in 2003.
October 5, 2009 : Lee Sustar Iran's agreement to allow inspection of a nuclear facility and negotiate with the Obama administration won't end U.S. attempts to impose its will.
October 2, 2009 Anti-imperialists don't pick and chose what countries to defend against the U.S., but we also should not allow ourselves to ignore the nature of regimes like that in Iran.
August 18, 2009 : Lee Sustar Sections of the U.S. left are backing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his drive to crush pro-democracy protests.
August 12, 2009 Workers who are part of the underground labor movement in Iran describe the state of the struggle and what's ahead.
July 30, 2009 : Saeed Rahnema For some Western leftists, Ahmadinejad has become a champion of anti-imperialism because of his seemingly firm rhetoric against Israel and the U.S.
July 15, 2009 Some leftists are turning their backs on Iranian protesters--the very people that they should be engaged in struggle with.
July 9, 2009 : Lee Sustar Is a radical change possible in Iran? Answering that question requires a look at Iranian history, politics and society beyond the disputed June 12 election.
July 1, 2009 Recent events in Iran, dubbed the "Twitter Revolution" by some, have been unprecedented in the way the Internet has been used.
June 25, 2009 : Lee Sustar A crackdown on demonstrators is intensifying, but cracks in Iran's ruling class are creating the potential for an even greater challenge.
June 23, 2009 Can someone let Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in on the differences between a soccer riot and explosive expressions of dissent?
June 18, 2009 While Ahmadinejad's policies may have caused as many economic problems as they solved, his supporters believe in his call to bring oil profits to the dinner table.
June 17, 2009 : Lee Sustar Iranian politics is being transformed by mass protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dubious claim that he won re-election.
June 15, 2009 : Lee Sustar A bitter election contest has brought deep splits in the Iranian ruling class into the open--and hundreds of thousands of people into the streets.
June 12, 2009 : Nicole Colson The people who shouted loudest over the jailing of an American journalist in Iran are silent about the U.S. military's detention of reporters.
May 20, 2009 More than 120 people spilled into the halls of a packed forum against U.S. war plans against Iran held in Providence.
August 21, 2008 : Lee Sustar The U.S. is dangling carrots in front of Iran to suspend uranium enrichment--but only after smacking them with increasingly big sticks.
July 23, 2008 George Bush ratcheted up the pressure on Iran with his announcement while in Britain that the European Union had agreed to a new round of sanctions.
June 18, 2008 The U.S. claim that Iran is to blame for a "provocative" confrontation between U.S. warships and Iranian speedboats is falling apart.
January 18, 2008
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