by Amir Taheri | Sep 21, 2012 | Opinion
What would Iran do if, as Benjamin Netanyahu threatens, it is attacked by Israel? One man who should know is the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Major-General Muhammad-Ali Aziz Jaafari. At a press conference last Sunday, Jaafari provided an...
by Amir Taheri | Sep 20, 2012 | Book Reviews, Interviews
JUSTICE AND THE ENEMY Nuremberg, 9/11 and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed By: William Shawcross Published by: Public Affairs, New York, 2012 256 pages During the US presidential election campaign of 2008, Democrats’ nominee Barack Obama made much of his claim that...
by Amir Taheri | Sep 14, 2012 | Opinion
As Bashar al-Assad continues to kill Syrians at an average rate of 100 a day, the Obama administration’s hesitations, deviations and tergiversations on this issue appear increasingly cynical. Obama and his supporters try to explain, and explain away, his failure to...
by Amir Taheri | Sep 7, 2012 | Opinion
According to Iranian media, the Non-Aligned Movement [NAM] summit cost Tehran around $600 million. Taking into account production losses incurred by a week of martial law, the cost could be higher. What did the investment bring for the organizers? The conference had...
by Amir Taheri | Aug 31, 2012 | Opinion
Having started as a popular uprising against a despot, the Syrian crisis has become a full-fledged civil war with potentially serious consequences for the future of the Middle East. Although history seldom repeats itself, on occasions, parallels can be drawn between...
