Meir Javedanfar
By Meir Javedanfar
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Opinion American Sanctions Only Give Iran An Excuse
In Iran, the some officials look over their shoulders when before they speak at meetings. They look around them to see if anyone is listening before saying something, and when they have something important to say to each other, they whisper to the other person’s ear. This is how senior Iranian officials serving in the…
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Opinion The Promise of Nuclear Deal With Iran — for Israel
The senior politicians of the State of Israel really need to calm down and stop behaving as if the world is about to end. It is not. The new draft framework agreement between Iran and the P5+1 needs improvement and clarifications. It is not perfect. It’s understandable for our politicians to be concerned about parts…
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Opinion The Brain Behind Ahmadinejad
On December 14, 2005, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the first senior Iranian official to deny the Holocaust. “They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets,” he said in the city of Zahedan. Until that date, leaders of the…
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Opinion In Iran Elections, Hezbollah Loses — Will Israel Too?
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad aren’t the only people who have staked their reputations on Iran’s disputed presidential election results. In a TV interview, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah described the Iranian elections as a mass endorsement by the Iranian people of their country’s system of Velayat-e Faqih — or “guardianship by Islamic jurist”…
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