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Race for Iran Is Going to Tehran 3 Jan 2013 | 02:23 am
With the impending publication of our Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, we have decided to move our blog to a new platform, www.GoingtoTehra...
Can the United States Think Strategically About Iran, China, and the Deepening Ties Between the Persian Gulf and Rising Asia? 31 Dec 2012 | 01:35 am
One of the many satisfying aspects of Flynt’s appointment as a professor of international affairs and law at Penn State is his service on the faculty editorial board for the new Penn State Journal of ...
The Real Obstacles to Successful Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran Lie in Washington, Not Tehran 24 Dec 2012 | 02:03 am
We are just back from another visit to the Islamic Republic and see even more clearly that the real obstacles to successful nuclear diplomacy with Iran lie in Washington, not Tehran. Prior to our vis...
America’s “War Party” and the Myth of Iranian “Irrationality” 15 Dec 2012 | 12:01 am
Speaking with Antiwar Radio’s Scott Horton earlier this week (listen to podcast here) about our forthcoming book, see here, Flynt took on widespread stereotypes in American discourse about Shi’a Islam...
Why the Obama Administration Charges the Syrian government May Be Preparing to Use Chemical Weapons…and the “Benghazi Effect” 11 Dec 2012 | 08:46 am
Commenting on Obama administration claims that the Syrian government appears to be making preparations to use chemical weapons in its fight against armed rebels, Hillary noted on Al Jazeera’s Inside S...
Iran and the “Mad Mullah Myth”: Leveretts’ Forthcoming Book Excerpted in Harper’s 7 Dec 2012 | 07:36 am
Our new book, Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, will be published by Henry Holt’s Metropolitan Books imprint on January 8, 2013. We are ver...
The Human Cost of Iran Sanctions: Have Americans Really Learned Anything from the Iraq War? 5 Dec 2012 | 01:22 am
Reuters When the United States and its assorted partners invaded Iraq in March 2003, polls suggested that as many as three-quarters of Americans may have supported President George W. Bush’s decision...
Obama’s New National Security Team Should Be Asked Serious Questions About U.S. Foreign Policy (But Probably Won’t Be) 26 Nov 2012 | 09:31 pm
President Obama’s pending reshuffle of his national security team is an occasion to ask hard questions about American foreign policy. Most immediately, as Hillary told Al Jazeera’s Inside Story last ...
Liberal Shamelessness on Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran 16 Nov 2012 | 07:49 am
As President Obama signaled renewed interest this week in a “diplomatic resolution to the problem” with Iran, liberal advocates of soft regime change are again coming out of the woodwork to profess th...
Iranian Perspectives on Nuclear Diplomacy: Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Inside Story 12 Nov 2012 | 08:27 am
The Guardian got rather spun up last week with a story on the participation of Israeli and Iranian delegations in an academic conference on nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, organized by the E...