They called him Don Quixote. But Uri Lubrani never gave up on regime change in Iran.
Tag: Iran
What Bernard Lewis saw in Iran
Bernard Lewis thought Iran's regime would fall. But who would push it?
In Iran, survival isn’t victory
There's an Iraq war that can serve as a model for Iran.
Ardeshir Zahedi: legend and lesson
The Shah's last ambassador dazzled Washington, and blinded it.
Does Israeli intelligence favor the Iran deal?
Does Israeli intelligence favor the Iran deal? Martin Kramer explodes the claim.
The Iran foray of the ASA
How the American Studies Association subsidized a shill for Iranian repression.
Israel likes its U.S. presidents strong
Israel frets that Obama went to Congress over Syria. If that's a precedent for Iran, Israel might have no choice but to strike first.
Wine, porn, and sectarianism in Syria
Another clip has emerged from the Iranian-built shrine in Raqqa, Syria, now held by insurgents. As Martin Kramer explains, the revelations are meant to shock Sunnis, but may also serve to mobilize Shiites.
The Shiite crescent eclipsed
What is the connection of a monumental shrine in Raqqa, Syria, to Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khameneh'i, and why is their portrait being defaced at its entrance? Martin Kramer goes to the sectarian strife at the heart of Syria's civil war.
George Kennan, Iran hawk
If George Kennan came back to life, would he urge the United States merely to "contain" Iran? Don't be so sure.
If Iran Gets the Bomb
Michael J. Totten interviews Martin Kramer on the implications of Iran's nuclear plans for the United States, the Middle East, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Obama’s Mideast priorities
Is Obama too clever or just confused? Martin Kramer joins panel with Thomas Friedman, Bill Kristol, and David Makovsky.
Obama, Israel and American Jews
Can Obama's Jewish supporters change the administration's course? Martin Kramer joins a Commentary symposium.
America and Afghani
The United States celebrates a Muslim firebrand, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani. Martin Kramer thinks it's very ironic.
Kissed to death by America
People in and around the Obama administration are taking the position that his low key on Iran is carefully calculated. It's not that he doesn't sympathize with the protesters, he just doesn't want their cause to be identified with the United States. That would be a kiss of death. I'm not persuaded, and as I've …
Obama’s Middle East map in shreds
There is nothing at all surprising about Barack Obama's reluctance to embrace the surge for freedom in Iran. As I've shown, he received his primer on the Middle East from Rashid Khalidi, who facilitated Obama's formation as a Palestine-centric Third Worldist. In this view of things, only the situation of the Palestinians deserves to be …
Iranian turmoil
My short assessment of the turmoil in Iran appears (with nine other expert assessments) at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), and is reproduced here at Sandbox. There are days when I'm supremely grateful that I'm not paid to make policy decisions. Those who must make them on Iran have much more information than I …
What do the financial crisis and U.S. Middle East policy have in common?
Behind the financial crisis was a well-practiced mechanism for concealing risk. The risk was there, and it was constantly growing, but it could be disguised, repackaged and renamed, so that in the end it seemed to have disappeared. Much of the debate about foreign policy in the United States is conducted in the same manner: …
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Miss Lambton’s advice
Ann (Nancy) K.S. Lambton, the distinguished British historian of medieval and modern Iran, died on July 19 at the age of 96. Her obituaries tell some of her remarkable story as a pioneering scholar and a formidable personality. They are also interesting for what they omit, regarding her role in the idea of removing Mohammad …
The Wilson Center held hostage
Iran's detention of Haleh Esfandiari is an attack on the Wilson Center as a place where scholarship meets policy.
Geopolitics of the Jews
In 2007, Martin Kramer flagged five future developments that could alter Israel's geopolitics. How many have come true? Almost all.
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