Elections & Political Parties

Afshin Molavi, a fellow with the New America Foundation and the author of “The Soul of Iran,” joins Martin Savidge to discuss what role the US and other countries can play in ending Iran's conflict and how the protests may evolve.

After watching President Obama's latest press briefing, I've reached a troubling conclusion: For the good of America and the world, the man badly needs a regular supply of nicotine.

Though smoking will undoubtedly put the president at grave risk of developing a serious illness, it also will keep him from lashing out at innocent reporters and, behind closed doors, any number of worshipful subordinates.

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.

The latest statement is “a bit of a stiffening, a bit of increased rhetoric,” said Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a policy research group in Washington. Obama's top political adviser said the ...

"There is a long and rich political tradition within Iran of labeling one's opponents as lackeys of America, stooges of Britain," said Afshin Molavi of the New America Foundation. "The Mousavi challenge to the current order of the Islamic Republic is ...

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Please join the New America Foundation for a conversation with Gordon Silverstein on his book Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics.

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 ...

Steve Clemons, a self-described "progressive realist" and senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank, said that Mr Obama's stance as it developed last week was "somewhat tragic" as well as flawed. "These speeches he's been giving have been ...

Steve Clemons discusses how the Basij are being targeted by members of the opposition. Link to video

ZAKARIA: So, take me through this option. You have Khatami, the former president, two-term president, not backing down. Rafsanjani, a former president, the very important leader of the Assembly of Experts not backing down. Larijani, the speaker of the parliament, not backing down. Can the regime really crack down? I mean, it can arrest people on the street, and it can arrest journalists like Maziar. But what does it do with these very powerful people who have now defied it?