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  What to Read on Iran this Week: Phone Diplomacy and Israel's Take on Iran

  Mehrun Etebari | October 5, 2013 2:25pm

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  This week saw wide coverage and analysis of President Hassan Rouhani's phone call with Barack Obama, as well as of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish remarks on Iran and what they portend for the future of negotiations with Iran.  Sanctions, fashion, film, and soccer also feature in the good reads from the week.  Read More

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  Iran Press Report: Reactions to Rouhani's Phone Call with Obama

  Mehrun Etebari | October 4, 2013 6:49pm

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  Understandably, after the first direct contact between an American president and a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leadership, the Iranian press heavily analyzed the phone conversation between Presidents Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani that took place last Friday. Hardliners largely called the discussion a mistake in an otherwise successful trip, while reformists and centrists were vociferous in their defense of the president’s bold decision to break the taboo of talking to America.

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  What Rouhani Can and Must Do for Iran's Women

  Mehrangiz Kar | October 2, 2013 1:24pm

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  Mehrangiz Kar writes that Hassan Rouhani has the capacity and the mandate to improve women's rights in Iran. The women of Iran voted for President Rouhani, she writes, and they will be keeping a close eye on the actions of his administration on women's issues.  She lays out an agenda for his government to follow to improve the status of Iran's women.  Read More

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  Iran’s Nuclear Program and the Choices America Will Face

  Kenneth M. Pollack | October 1, 2013 10:34am

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   In Kenneth Pollack's new book Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy (Simon & Schuster, 2013), Pollack provides an overview of the choices America has in addressing Iran’s nuclear program. In this video, Pollack emphasizes that if there is a diplomatic way to achieve concessions from Iran regarding its nuclear program, that is by far the best option. But if diplomacy is not effective and the U.S. is faced with the choice of going to war or containing Iran, containing Iran is the better path – a strategy Pollack says the U.S. has used for the last 34 years.

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  The Rouhani Tsunami: A Presidential Phone Call Offers Another Iranian Surprise

  Suzanne Maloney | September 28, 2013 9:29am

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  Capping a week full of headlines, controversy, spectacle and schmoozing, Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani made history on Friday by concluding his inaugural visit to the United States with an unprecedented telephone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama. In a perfect diplomatic minuet, the call was invited by Iranian officials and initiated by the White House. The conversation ended nearly 35 years of silence between the two leaderships and inspired hopes, as expressed by President Obama, that "we can reach a comprehensive solution" to the Iranian nuclear crisis and potentially even more — the start of a new relationship between America and Iran.  Read More

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  What to Read on Iran This Week: Analysis of a Momentous Week at the UN

  Mehrun Etebari | September 27, 2013 4:16pm

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  Clearly, parsing everything that happened in New York at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) was at the top of the agenda for Iran observers this week. There were far too many analyses of the events of this momentous week to list here, but we’ll give you a sampling.  Read More

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  Tehran Takes Manhattan: Takeaways From A Historic Week

  Suzanne Maloney | September 27, 2013 10:18am

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  The inaugural U.S. visit of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, to attend the United Nations General Assembly is winding to close at this writing. It has been a banner week full of headlines, controversy, spectacle and schmoozing, and rather than recap the headlines or repeat the same analysis you've read els  Read More

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  Iran Press Report: Rouhani and Obama at the UN General Assembly

  Mehrun Etebari | September 26, 2013 11:22pm

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  This week, the speeches of Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) – and the prospects of a meeting between the two of them – dominated the Iranian press.  While some reformists were disappointed in that Rouhani was not bolder in his push for diplomacy, the Iranian president's middle path pleased hardliners at home.  Read More

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  As UN Session Begins, Another Iranian President Weighs In

  Suzanne Maloney | September 24, 2013 2:01pm

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  Many surely saw the opinion piece by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in last Friday's Washington Post. Not to be outdone by his successor, former president Mohammad Khatami published an article in yesterday's Guardian newspaper , aruging that this is "an unrivalled and possibly unrepeatable opportunity for Iran, the west and all local and regional powers" to resolve their differences. Iran @ Saban analyzes the latest in a series of op-ed overtures from Iran.  Read More

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  Another Oped Overture From Iran

  Suzanne Maloney | September 24, 2013 12:29pm

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  Many surely saw the opinion piece by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in last Friday's Washington Post. Not to be outdone by his successor, former president Mohammad Khatami published an article in yesterday's Guardian newspaper , aruging that this is "an unrivalled and possibly unrepeatable opportunity for Iran, the west and all local and regional powers" to resolve their differences. Iran @ Saban analyzes the latest in a series of oped overtures from Iran.  Read More

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