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Understanding Iran
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Reza Aslan, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, columnist at the Daily Beast.com and author of How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror analyzes the situation in Iran and the role of the Islamic Republic in the lives of post-revolution Iranians.
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Reza has been vocal about his support in President Obama's stand on Iran since the election. But at what point does being laissez faire become obsolete for the United States?
QUESTION FOR REZA:
Almost all of the news coverage here has been about protests in Tehran. Are similar things going on in Iran's other major cities?
Could we adopt the Iranian 4 week campaign rule, please!
Question for Reza:
Do you think Iran might become a "natural" ally for the West in the fight or the war of ideas against puritanical, Wahhabi Islam?
Where did this Iranian American cast her ballot in Manhattan? The Swiss Embassy? The Canadian Embassy? The U.N.?
Thanks everybody, for covering Iran so tenaciously. The paucity of flow there, due to government crackdown, needs to be compensated by committed journalist in the free parts of the world. I don't understand why the Left has been so bamboozled by the rhetoric of Ahmadinejad. HE is a thug, not a revolutionary. Look at what he is doing. It is one thing for American government to stay out of it, another for the media. That would be a shirking of responsibility, not letting those voices be heard, those desperate twitts.
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