Flynt Leverett, director of the New America Foundation's Iran Project, says turnout will be crucial. "It would seem as even with a relatively high turnout - 60 percent - Ahmadinejad is in a strong position," said Flynt Leverett. ...
Nevertheless, Iranian officials "think any policy will be run through Israel before it gets to them and they will be stuck with policies that are unworkable," said Flynt Leverett, a former National Security Council staff member who recently met with ...
An exclusive national poll taken ahead of Iran’s presidential election is discussed by Ken Ballen, Azadeh Porzand, and Flynt Leverett. Steve Clemons moderated the discussion.
US foreign policy expert Flynt Leverett says Washington needs to do more to reassure Iran, because despite President Obama's calls for improved relations, Tehran believes the US is still pursuing the policy track of former President Bush. ...
"Expectations in the region have gotten pretty high and I think there is a very good chance that those expectations will be disappointed," said Flynt Leverett, a former US official who quit the Bush administration over differences on Middle East policy ...
The "Great Recession" will "mark a turning point at the way the global economic world operates,” predicted Flynt Leverett, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From this point on there will be a “trend for greater Chinese assertiveness,” as the United States “increasingly comes to term with the limits” of its own clout...
Two prominent Middle East analysts, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former staffers at the National Security Council, question Ross' role in the Obama administration. In a New York Times opinion piece on May 24, 2009, they warn that President ...
President Obama's Iran policy has, in all likelihood, already
failed. On its present course, the White House's approach will not stop
Tehran's development of a nuclear fuel program - or, as Iran's
successful test of a medium-range, solid-fuel missile last week
underscored, military capacities of other sorts. It will also not
provide an alternative to continued antagonism between the United
States and Iran - a posture that for 30 years has proved increasingly
damaging to the interests of the United States and its allies in the
Middle East.
Flynt Leverett, a former Mideast specialist on the National Security Council and advocate of a "grand bargain" between the US and Iran, said the new working group could undermine the credibility of any US offers to Iran. ...
Will China and the Gulf oil states have the U.S. over the proverbial barrel, or will the world's leading capitalist economy get lucky once again? On May 26, 2009, two of the New America Foundation's leading experts on geopolitics and the global economy joined with Foreign Policy magazine to debate which countries will emerge relatively stronger in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
