"These are the most significant demonstrations in the history of the Islamic Republic over the past 30 years," said Afshin Molavi, a former Reuters journalist who is now a scholar at the New America Foundation, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit, ...
“This will recalibrate the way the Obama administration thinks of moving forward with the Iranian nuclear issue,” said Nicholas Schmidle, a fellow at the New America Foundation. “There are voices now that say the regime may be in danger and therefore ...
Flynt Leverett comments on the results of the recent Iranian presidential election and discusses the current political landscape in Iran. Link to video
Ken Ballen, head of a group called Terror Free Tomorrow: The Centre for Public Opinion, and Patrick Doherty, of the New America Foundation, revealed that they had done a phone poll across all 30 provinces three weeks before the vote that gave Mr ...
The research was conducted by US-based polling organisations Terror Free Tomorrow, the New America Foundation and KA Europe SPRL. "We found that President Ahmadinejad was leading by a substantial margin," Ken Ballen from Terror Free Tomorrow told the ...
June 17, 2009
With a recount announced for the Iranian election, and opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi demanding a fresh election, the political situation in Iran remains on a knife's edge.
We're witnessing the mobilizing power of anti-incumbent forces, particularly youth, who are fed up, and the role of technology in getting voters to the ballot boxes and out on the street.
Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, said the election represents “the worst possible outcome” for the Obama administration. The White House, he said, would have preferred a victory by Mr Mousavi, ...
"The Iranian-American community is hungry for all news and information coming out of Iran," Afshin Molavi told CNN on Tuesday in a telephone interview. Molavi was born in Iran but grew up in the West. He is affiliated with the New America Foundation, ...
After a day of nonviolent protests in Iran, seven Iranians died after anger boiled over and a gaggle of anti-Ahmadinejad activists threatened to set fire to the headquarters of the Basij, a notorious loyalist paramilitary that does the domestic dirty work of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The teenage Basijis are the acne-ridden thugs who savagely beat women who dare to violate the dress code imposed by Iran's supposedly Islamic regime, and they've long been a pillar of the country's quasi-fascist… more
Nicholas Schmidle discusses what President Obama should do in response to the recent Iranian riots and protests. Link to audio
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