Afshin Molavi, a fellow at the New America Foundation, says the next three to four weeks are 'going to be crucial to the future of any potential U.S.-Iran rapprochement.' Link to video
The groups Terror Free Tomorrow and the New America Foundation conducted the telephone poll of 1001 voters. There also are good reasons to be suspicious, however. Things seemed to go well on election day, when Iranians by the millions -- a record ...
June 17, 2009
“For Barack Obama, this was a serious misstep,” said Steven Clemons, director of the American strategy program at the New America Foundation. “It's right for the administration to be cautious, but it's extremely bad for him to narrow the peephole into ...
"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, ...
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