Flynt Leverett, a former Middle East director at the US National Security Council, has noted that the 1970s, when the US did not bow so readily to Israeli ...
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Flynt Leverett, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, says the idea of providing a defense umbrella over the Gulf is not a new ...
In a recent article, New America Foundation's (NAF) Flynt Leverett noted that the Iranian crackdown following massive demonstrations against the disputed reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had "far less bloodshed" than Tiananmen Square...
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former National Security Council officials in the Bush Administration, wrote in May that "the Obama Administration has done nothing to cancel or repudiate an ostensibly covert but well-publicized program, begun in President George W. Bush's second term, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize the Islamic Republic."
Flynt Leverett, a former National Security Council who has long advocated engaging Iran, notes that President Nixon opened relations with China under Mao Zedong, who is held responsible for more peacetime deaths of his own people than Hitler in Germany and Stalin in the Soviet Union.
"Foreign policy is not about making you feel good," he says. "It's about serving interests." Original article
This week, Barack Obama's Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell met in New York with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to begin discussing a potential "compromise" regarding the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. Israel's continued settlement expansion has been at the top of America's Middle East agenda since Obama's Cairo speech in June, when he declared that "the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
Although bloody images continue to be replayed on American
television, the protests that broke out in Tehran following Iran's
presidential election on June 12 are, predictably, dwindling. They are
fading because further demonstrations would no longer be about alleged
election irregularities but, rather, would be a challenge to the
Islamic Republic itself --something only a small minority of the
initial protesters support.
Flynt Leverett, a senior CIA analyst for eight years, and his wife, Hillary Mann Leverett, a former US National Security Council official who participated in closed-door negotiations with Iran, both threw their weight behind the poll and made some ...
Despite strong warnings from Iran's Revolutionary Guard that
protests would not be tolerated, a thousand protestors gathered in central Tehran today to
rally against purported voter fraud.
On June 22, 2009 Ken Ballen, Steve Clemons, Flynt Leverett, Afshin Molavi, and Nader Mousavizadeh came together with Nicholas Schmidle at the New America Foundation to share their varied views on the current events in Iran, and how they will impact future U.S. policy toward Iran. This discussion among some of the world’s most prominent experts on the region ranged from how to interpret the riots in the streets of Tehran to the forceful debates that continue in the… more
