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But it also appears stuck on the notion of permanent US hegemony in the Middle East, says national security expert Flynt Leverett at www.RaceForIran.com. On Antiwar Radio, Flynt Leverett reviewed the P5+1 nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic, ...

Flynt Leverett, former Middle East director for the National Security Council, compared it to the diplomatic communications between Beijing and the Washington that paved the way for the opening of relations with China during the Nixon administration.

Editor's Note: The following is a response to The Soft Side of Regime Change by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. A sensible, balanced discussion on Iran is difficult to come by these days. The level of hysteria within the Beltway is so high, ...

That policy, as former National Security Council staffers Flynt Leverett and his wife, Hillary Mann, describe, is one where "Israeli elites want to preserve a regional balance of power strongly tilted in Israel's favor and what an Israeli general ...

... 4 while in violation of Iran's air sovereignty “highlights a deeper reality,” than a mere signification of the escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote on the Race for Iran website. ...

This "allowed Bashar to be seen as someone on the right side of a true 'hot button' issue for most ordinary Syrians," writes Flynt Leverett in his book, Inheriting Syria - Bashar's Trial by Fire. The Syrian constitution had to be amended to allow ...

Calls by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary Hillary Clinton to "unite the world in the isolation of and dealing with the Iranians," in response to an alleged Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia's Ambassador in Washington, reflect a hubristic misapprehension of reality.

The Obama Administration mistakenly believes it can exploit the accusations for strategic advantage. In fact, they are likely to play to Iran's advantage, not America's.

President Barack Obama's State Department address on the Middle East was a desperate attempt to define a new narrative about the Arab awakening and America's role in this critical region. But the speech only confirmed that Obama has no alternative strategic vision to replace the neoconservative fantasies of his predecessor. In the process, the president demonstrated that the United States has little to offer the region and its people.

An Iran-watcher source "is someone who wants a [US] visa, who wants money, is an expatriate, or someone with an explicitly anti-Islamic Republic agenda," said Flynt Leverett, a former White House and CIA official now a professor of international ...

Anyone who will talk to an Iran watcher "is someone who wants a (US) visa, who wants money, is an expatriate, or someone with an explicitly anti-Islamic Republic agenda," said Flynt Leverett, a former White House and CIA official who's now a professor ...

Flynt Leverett, who served in the Bush State Department, said “The lesson is incontrovertible: to persuade a rogue regime to get out of the terrorism business and give up its weapons of mass destruction, we must not only apply pressure but also make ...