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Jubin Afshar, is Director of the Near East Project at Near East Policy Research in Washington, D.C. http://www.neareastpolicy.com/

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Friday, January 22, 2010
The legal road to justice for PMOI
A 12 year legal battle could come to an end soon, as US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit heard The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran v. US Department of State on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. PMOI has been removed from terror lists in UK and EU after hard-fought legal battles in which courts ruled there was no evidence to keep the group on those lists. PMOI is the main organized opposition to the ruling theocracy in Iran.

Monday, March 26, 2007
Iran blackmails, Britain negotiates
(12 comments) Iran has once again seized British sailors just like it did three years ago. In that episode Iran managed to extract as much leverage on the British government as it could to steer itself through rough international waters designed to halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Saturday, March 24, 2007
Detente or Appeasement?e
(11 comments) Among the most curious aspects of the debate over how to handle the rogue Iranian regime is perhaps the strew of Iran pundits who consistently argue in favor of accepting the current status quo in Iran, recognizing the Iranian regime as a major regional power, and providing security guarantees for its political survival, and recognizing it on par with a regional superpower to be reckoned with.