Iran

Critical State | Ha'aretz

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:59:00 -0500

Hillary Mann Leverett and her partner and husband, Flynt Leverett, make the Iran desk staffers in the Israeli intelligence ...

Iran Students Carry on Protests | Los Angeles Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:01:00 -0500

In a series of opinion pieces and public speeches, Hillary and Flynt Leverett, who have served as Middle East analysts for the CIA, National Security ...

Why a Bombing in Iran Could Be Bad News for Obama | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:43:00 -0400

Former Bush National Security Council officials Flynt Leverett and Hilary Mann Leverett wrote recently in the New York Times of their conversations with ...

Iran | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:20:00 -0400

“In a strategic sense, I don’t think Iran is in a fundamentally different place than it was before elections, not in the way it approaches negotiations or the way it looks at its foreign policy,” said Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University. ...

Obama's Iranian Lifeline

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:48:00 -0400

Tehran threw President Barack Obama a badly needed "lifeline" for his Iran policy at last week's nuclear discussions in Geneva: It promised U.N. access to a recently declared nuclear site and committed "in principle" to ship low-enriched uranium, or LEU, abroad to make fuel rods for producing medical isotopes. If Geneva had been a "bust," Obama would have been committed to mustering international endorsement for what his secretary of state calls "crippling" sanctions against Iran -- even though no

Nuclear Politics | New Yorker

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:09:00 -0400

America Is Getting Hustled

Erin Drankoski — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400

After the revelation of Iran's previously secret uranium-enrichment near facility Qom, home to the country's clerical elite, Barack Obama, flanked by Gordon Brown and the hawkish Nicolas Sarkozy, eloquently condemned Iran for its contemptuous disregard for international law. The visuals were powerful: while the Bush administration had been condemned for its unilateralism, here was President Obama standing with the leaders of America's allies, all of them offering a single forceful message. It didn't hurt that Obama towered over the perpetually

What Should US Do About Iran? | USA Today

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:15:00 -0400

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former National Security Council staffers, in The New York Times : "Instead of pushing the falsehood that ...

Iran | Russia Today

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:25:00 -0400

... limits on Iran are rather small, but that's something on which the American side is very focused, says Flynt Leverett from the New America Foundation. ...

The West Prepares to Confront Iran on Findings | Spiegel Online

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:02:00 -0400

Flynt Leverett, on the other hand, is no diplomat. In 2003, he parted ways with the National Security Council and, since then, he has been outspoken about ...