Articles By Amir Taheri
ẹ Syria: Looking For Ways Out Of The Maze - Russia Has Been Forced To Face The Limits Of Its Power
ẹ Iran: Speaking Swedish, Acting North Korean - The New Khomeinist Regime's Ideological Emptiness
ẹ Trump, The Ayatollah And The Wizard Of Oz: A Cyber-space Bomb Against Khamenei
ẹ Iran Nuclear Problem Must Be Re-Visited: The 'Great Satan' Or, In Corbyn's Lexicon, 'Imperialist Bully'
ẹ Iran: Anatomy Of A National Revolt - The Change That May Be Delayed But Won't Be Denied
ẹ Behind the Latest Protests in Iran: Bringing Iran Out Of The Historic Impasse Created By Khomeini
ẹ 2017 - The Year of The Rohingya: The Victims Of Own Central Government And "National" Army
ẹ Where Russian And Iranian Aircraft Carriers Clash
ẹ The Mullahs Overplay The Military Card: Khamenei Beating The Drums Of War
ẹ ISIS, Missiles And Iranian Military In Yemen: Who Speaks For Tehran?
ẹ Lebanon: Is Cheat-and-Retreat Back on the Menu?
ẹ Inside Saudi Arabia: The Usual Suspects and a New Method
ẹ How Iran Tried to Turn Arab States into Fading Ghosts
ẹ Iran And 'The Great Satan': A 4-Decades Old Saga
ẹ The Iran Deal: The Dog's Dinner Obama Dished Out
ẹ Putin's Quest For a Monroe Doctrine
ẹ Putin Faces Growing Problems over Support for Assad in Syria
ẹ Lessons Trump Can Learn From Obama
ẹ Universal Language of Poetry with an Iraqi Accent
ẹ In Paris: Another Vanity Confab on Palestine
ẹ Obama and the Palestinian Fig Leaf
ẹ 2016 - The Year of Aleppo?
ẹ With Trump the Pendulum Swings Away From Obama's Schemes
ẹ Iran's Press Change Tune on the ''Nuke Deal''
ẹ In Aleppo, Russia Continues a Long History
ẹ No ''Trump'' Sign on Obama's Ziggurat
ẹ Rouhani Tries to Salvage the Nuclear Deal With Obama
ẹ Liberating Mosul: The 5 Weaknesses of the Battle Plan
ẹ Trump May Find Nothing More to Offer Putin
ẹ Dear Francois, You're Wrong on Syria
ẹ Trump as President isn't Good News for Bashar Al-Assad
ẹ Trump Promises New Start in US Foreign Policy
ẹ Trump Wins With Five ''Nos''
ẹ New Books on the Kingdom: Understanding and Misunderstanding
ẹ Michel Aoun in Iranian Media: from Warlord to Man of Peace
ẹ Moscow, Tehran Ponder Next Moves in Aleppo
ẹ Clinton or Trump - Better or Less Bad?
ẹ The Middle East Between Neo-Ottomans and Neo Safavids
ẹ US Election Day - Come Back America
ẹ Iran Fears Being Side-lined by Russia in Syria
ẹ How Trump Turned High Politics into Reality Television
ẹ The ''Family'' Obama Says He Will Miss on Leaving the White House
ẹ Trump Has Played a Useful Role
ẹ JASTA: 3 Scenarios for a Disputed Text
ẹ How to Cuddle the Russian Bear
ẹ JASTA: Misconceived and Stillborn, Can it Survive?
ẹ Fate of Whistle-blower Divides American Media
ẹ Last Premier before Iran's Revolution Passes Away
ẹ Iran - Rich and Submissive or Poor and Pure?
ẹ Syria Policy in Flux in Washington, Moscow and Tehran
ẹ US Election - the Unloved Known and the Feared Unknown
ẹ The Mullah, the Prince and the Taqiyah Trap
ẹ US Media Learning to Live with the Trump Nightmare
ẹ Trump Too Leads a ''Resentment Rainbow''
ẹ America and Obama's Resentment Rainbow
ẹ Turkish Military Presence in Syria Worries Iran
ẹ Syria - Why Assad Has Become Irrelevant
ẹ Iran and Russia: Old Enemies, New Allies
ẹ Iran Needs to Bury Khomeini's Ghost
ẹ Iran: Russia's New Aircraft Carrier in the Mideast
ẹ The 'Satan' And Ayatollahs: A Year Later - The Diplomatic Deception of the Century
ẹ The Human Body as a Weapon of War: A Discourse Leaving Most Muslims Indifferent Or Annoyed
ẹ Americans Facing a Hobson's Choice
ẹ Turkey - Towards a ''One and a Half Party'' System
ẹ Iran's Great Storyteller Dies in Silence
ẹ Turkey - The Clash of the Two Parties of the Past
ẹ Turkey: Erdogan Wins First Round of a Long Fight
ẹ The Exile That Might Derail Erdogan's Grand Design
ẹ Terrorism - No One is Safe Anywhere
ẹ Britain - Chasing the Brexit Mirage
ẹ Iran Rethinks Syrian Fantasies: Al-Assad Swallowing Unspecified Bitter Pill
ẹ The Riddle That is Donald Trump
ẹ Iran- Why Mullahs Need the Old Jaw-shutter
ẹ Could Tehran Face Charges of Mercenary Crimes?
ẹ Tighten Our Belts For President Trump?
ẹ Iran's New Map of Funerals: The Syrian Adventure Is A Costly Exercise In Tragic Futility
ẹ Iraq - Turmoil Between Two Empires
ẹ Tehran Calls Up Retired Gen. Rezaei After Losses in Aleppo
ẹ Hologram Presidency May Not End With Obama
ẹ Iran - The ''Golden Age'' That Was Not
ẹ Iran - Why Has the Obama Gamble Failed?
ẹ Tehran Warns Moscow on Change Of Course in Syria
ẹ Upper Qarabagh: The ''Black Garden'' of Conflicts
ẹ The Challenges of a Split Personality
ẹ Syrian Refugees - the Myth and Reality of a Brand
ẹ Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines
ẹ Aleppo: A City That Refuses to Die
ẹ Russia in Syria - Stated and Unstated Goals
ẹ Syria: Iranian Policy Caught Between Russia and Turkey
ẹ Turkey - That's the Press, Baby!
ẹ US Presidential Election: A Bumpy Road Ahead
ẹ When the Question About Iran Has a Japanese Answer
ẹ Iran: A Setback for Hardliners and Little Cheer for Reformists
ẹ Three Fires That Burn Syria
ẹ Where More Mullahs Mean Less Religion
ẹ Syria: Rival Powers and Their Second Choice
ẹ Iranian Elections: the Chinese Model Vs. the North Korean Model
ẹ Iran- the Revolution That Produced Only Losers
ẹ Iran: Disputed Elections - the Media Faces a Challenge
ẹ The Ayatollah Looks East and Finds a Void
ẹ The Iran ''Deal'' - A Tale of Double Deception
ẹ Russia- The Rooster That Putin Should Hear
ẹ Is Western Media Showing ''Saudiphobia''
ẹ Saudi Arabia and the Iranian Schizophrenia
ẹ Iran - Dark Clouds on the Economic Horizon
ẹ US Presidential Election - the Right to Make the Wrong Choice
ẹ Syria - a Poisoned Gift for Putin and Erdogan
ẹ Khamenei And An Offer That Can Be Refused
ẹ For Putin, Big Sortie in Tehran: Like Shiite Iran, Russia Developed A Tradition Of Martyr-worship
ẹ Iran's Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles
ẹ Obama's MidEast Policy: An Obituary By John Kerry
ẹ In Tehran: A Hot Potato Nobody Wants To Touch
ẹ Iran's Trojan Army Makes A Splash In Iraq
ẹ Why Is The ''Right War'' Taking A Wrong Turn?
ẹ The Risks of Having Giant Friends: Russia Propping Up Assad Undermining The Very Interests It Wants To Protect
ẹ Syria And The World—Victory Or Compromise?
ẹ The Ayatollah Dreamed It, Obama Delivers It: Pax Americana - End of America
ẹ No, Bashar Al-Assad Is No Joseph Stalin: Regardless Of His Personal Qualities, Or Lack Of Them
ẹ Hubris Puts Iran In Danger: Tehran's Series Of Bluffs Thanks To Obama's Weird Behavior
ẹ The ''Candy'' the Mullahs Gave to Obama
ẹ The Supreme Guide and the Substance of the Angels
ẹ When Obama Adopts the Mullahs' Style
ẹ Syria And The World — Victory Or Compromise? The Spectrum Of Assad's Russia And The Mullahs Of Tehran
ẹ As Iran Builds Naval Power, It Looks To Oman As The Big Prize
ẹ When the Ayatollah Dictates Poetry: The Persian Classical Style Of Panegyrics For Despotic Rulers
ẹ The Iran "Deal"—A Fragile Arrangement
ẹ An American Scenario for Taming the Mullahs of Tehran
ẹ Iran Between Two Fantasies: More Mischief At Home And Abroad
ẹ Iran Nuclear Deal: Winners and Losers: Tehran World Capital For Almost All Terrorist Organizations
ẹ Obama's Potemkin Villages: Including Burma, Cuba, Ukraine And Syria
ẹ Nuclear Accord Intensifies Power Struggle In Tehran
ẹ Is Iran Now Under the Tutelage of the Six World Powers?
ẹ After Iran Nuclear Deal—Best and Worst Case Scenarios
ẹ A Symphony of Parallel Tragedies: Iran Nuclear Saga—No Deal Yet
ẹ Khamenei Tries To Force Generals Back Into Line
ẹ The "Most Dangerous Woman" in America: New York Brunette, The Queen Of Conspiracies
ẹ How The New Erdoğan Killed The Old One: When Turkey Went To The Polls To Vote
ẹ Russia And The Danger Of Conspiracy Theories
ẹ When Israel Vetoed A Plot To Kill Khomeini In Paris
ẹ Why Iran Cannot Deliver What Obama Hopes: Buying The Carpet That Tehran Is Willing To Sell
ẹ Why Is Rouhani Coddling The Military? The Strategy Of Normalization With The ''Great Satan''
ẹ Europe's Feeble Efforts To 'Punish' Israel
ẹ Has Obama Made Agreement With Iran More Difficult? Back To The Original Baseline
ẹ Why The Lebanese Scenario Won't Work In Yemen: The Houthis Have Exaggerated Their Gun Power
ẹ Iran's Nuclear Drama: From ''Death to America'' to ''Anxious Hearts''
ẹ Talkers Vs. Deciders in Iran's Foreign Policy: Who Is In Charge Of Iran's Foreign Policy?
ẹ France's Uncertain Enemy: The Blame Game Is Extended With Another Item - Islamophobia
ẹ Iran And The Yemeni Hornet's Nest: The Latest Nation To Embrace The Khomeinist Ideology
ẹ The Mullahs' Contrasting World Visions: A Composite Identity - Business And Corruption
ẹ Iran and the Pro-Mullah Lobby's Arguments: Nothing But An Illusion
ẹ Iran's Suspect Deal in the Making: The Mullahs Devious Tactics Of Taqiyah (Obfuscation), Kitman (Dissimulation), And Istitar (Pulling A Curtain)
ẹ Publisher Who Defied Khomeini Remembered In London: The Sudden Death of Parviz Isfahani
ẹ Like Father, Like Son: Bashar Al-Assad, The Man ''Re-elected'' President Of Syria With 99.9 Percent Of The Vote June 2014
ẹ ISIS's Syrian Haven Safe From US Bombs—for Now
ẹ Putin, A Prisoner Of The Past: Having Read History The Wrong Way
ẹ Iran Is Not China And Obama Is Not Nixon: Obama's Appeasement Policy
ẹ Iran Must Confront Its Past To Move Forwards: Khomeini Has Become A Symbol Of What Went Wrong With Iran's Wayward Revolution
ẹ Iran's Press: The Blindfolded Racehorse - The Khomeinist Ideology, The Global Hezbollah Movement, Classical Anti-Americanism, Anti-Arab And Anti-Israeli Shibboleths, And Pipedreams
ẹ Saudi Arabia's Greatest Asset Is Stability: Riyadh Is Prepared To Assume A More Active Role In The International Arena
ẹ The Four Players in the Syrian Arena: Regardless Of The Rumors Kerry Is Spreading, Assad Has Not Won And The Struggle For A Free Syria Is Far From Over
ẹ Iran: A Tale of Two Poets -- Poets Moshfeq Kashani And Hashem Shaabani Received Very Different Treatment From The Authorities
ẹ Iran's Dangerous Game In Yemen: The Saudis Feed The Yemenis And The Iranians Arm Them
ẹ To Defeat ISIS, Save Syria: ISIS Is An Effect, Syria Is The Cause - In Other Words, It's Syria, Stupid!
ẹ Panetta Fails To Lift The Lid On Obama: And What If, Obama Secretly Believes That America...
ẹ The Struggle To Succeed Khamenei Has Already Begun: In Their Quest For Supreme Power, Rafsanjani And Mesbah-Yazdi
ẹ A War of Sectarians, Not a Sectarian War: Shirazi, Like Khamenei, Political Not Religious
ẹ Gaza And The Curse Of Half-Finished Wars: Why Did The War Break Out At This Time?
ẹ Barzani Flying a Kite: Sunni And Shi'ite, Sufi And "Ghulat" Gambit
ẹ No Cavalry to the Rescue: Any Commitment Of Iranian Troops Could Make Situation Worse
ẹ No Cavalry to the Rescue: Iraq, Iran and America In Real Life
ẹ The Mufti Who Is More Khomeinist Than A Mullah: Assad's Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun
ẹ An Upmarket Jimmy Carter: Repairing The Damage That Obama Is Doing Might Take Even Longer
ẹ When History Ignores a Turning Point: A Series Of Horrible Twists And Turns
ẹ Assad In The Footsteps Of The French: Only The Removal Of The Original Cause Of The Syrian War Could Bring It To An End
ẹ Obama, the Bomb and the Fatwa: The Bizarre Twist, Iran's Ayyatollah And One Barack
ẹ Venezuela And the "Curse of Oil"
ẹ A Living Symbol of the "Turkish Model"
ẹ Geneva II is Preparing for a Bloodbath in Syria
ẹ The "Supreme Guide" and "Unpardonable Sin"
ẹ Russia Seeks A Higher Profile In Sochi
ẹ Rouhani And his "American Boys": Ayatollas And The US Congress
ẹ Two Recipes for Two Constitutions: It Echoed The 19th-century Myth Of "An-Nahda"
ẹ Is Saddam's Ghost Making A Comeback? Maliki Burning His Bridges With The Sunni Community
ẹ Putin Vs. The Black Widows: The Federation's Various Muslim Communities Are Gaining
ẹ The US Is Talking To Iran, But About What? It May Lead To An Even Bigger Conflict In The Future
ẹ A Different Agenda Is Needed For Geneva II: Russia And Iran - Only Ready To Give Assad Money And Arms To Kill More Syrians
ẹ Back To The Great Game: Obama Specializes In Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory
ẹ 'Akbar Shah' Attempts To Repeat History: Whatever The Answer, That Strategy Is Doomed
ẹ The Devil Is In More Than The Details: Khomeinist anti-Americanism Only In A Cloak Of Flowery Rhetoric
ẹ Bush, Obama And Teddy's Big Stick: Obama walks like Gary Cooper in High Noon
ẹ Russia's Strategy Is Based On Fear And Fantasy: Putin's Narratives - Conspiracies
ẹ It's The UK Parliament's Perogative: Does The Vote Affect British - US Relations?
ẹ Obama And Putin's Danse Macabre: Obama Fixes "Red Lines" And Talks A Good Talk
ẹ Nasrallah's Dangerous Strategy: He Has Become Entangled In What Sadr Called "Diabolical Schemes"
ẹ Iran's Moment Of Truth: Rafsanjani And Mashaei Wished To Ignore The True Nature Of The Regime
ẹ Tehran Nervous As Election Process Starts: Iranian Sunni Muslims, Believed To Number Around 12 Million, Excluded
ẹ Elections? Yes, If I Like the Results: Mursi's Natural Modesty And Lack Of Charisma May Be Assets In This Exercise
ẹ Washington's Circular Argument On Iran And The Bomb
ẹ The "Cursed Three" and the "Supreme Leader"
ẹ Leaders Who Swim Against The Tide: One Wonders What Thatcher Might Have Thought Of That
ẹ The Art Of Turning Neighbors Into Enemies: The Khomeinist Regime Relations With Azerbaijan
ẹ Egypt: To Fail, Or Not To Fail? That Is The Question
ẹ Iran: A Clash of Religion and Nationalism
ẹ Iraq: How the Republic of Fear was Brought Down
ẹ Iraqis Have a Chance: What Will They Do With It?
ẹ The Mullah Who Could Melt A Snowstorm: Another Of The 200,000 Or So Mullahs Spread Across The Spectrum Of Iranian Life
ẹ Is China Ready For World Leadership? Failure To Pose The Problem Of The Uighurs Represents Another Fault-line
ẹ Hugo Chávez: The Man Who Turned The Light Of Hope On And Off
ẹ Old Elites Fighting Old Wars In Old Ways In Iraq
ẹ The Mullahs And The Ceausescu Syndrome: The Work Of Ahmadinejad's Faction
ẹ Could Behind The Scenes Diplomacy Help In Syria? The End Of The Tunnel More Of An Illusion
ẹ Syria: Is It Time For Military Intervention? The Question, In Syria, People Die
ẹ Iran Supreme Guide Calls On Mursi To Follow Khomeinist Political Model
ẹ Iran: Impossible Talks With The "Great Satan"
ẹ Iran: Old Revolutionaries Say Sorry - The Khomeinist Regime Has Also Led Itself Into A Closed Circle
ẹ Obama's First Term May Prove Good For The Middle East
ẹ Egypt: A Difficult Learning Curve - Trying To Surf To Power On A Wave Of "Street" Anger
ẹ Iran: Embracing The Bear At Last - Many Iranians Still Regard Russia With Suspicion
ẹ Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That The Khomeinist Regime In Tehran Poses
ẹ Iran: The "Fatwa" And Obama's Creative Diplomacy
ẹ Syria: Tragicomic Performance At Damascus Opera
ẹ The Crystal Ball And The Year Of Many Dangers
ẹ Arab Spring: Heading For Reactionary Backlash? 2013 A Measure Of Cautious Optimism
ẹ Iran: Grim Mood As Power Struggle Intensifies - The Khomeinist Regime Fundamental Contradictions
ẹ Egypt: The Dangers Of The Sulk-And-Retreat Strategy
ẹ Egypt: Could Mursi Become Another Khomeini? What Egypt Is Entering Is An "Islamist Winter"
ẹ Turkey: Fresh Hopes For A New Kurdish Policy
ẹ America And The Middle East: The Next Four Years: More Of Obama Era For The Region
ẹ Lebanon: Shi'ites Need A New Strategy - The Assad Regime Hezbollah Has Lost Circle
ẹ Iran: The President Who Woke Up At The Eleventh Hour
ẹ Following The US Election, Pay Attention To China!
ẹ Nasrallah And Yesterday's Hymn Sheet: Talk Of War, Harm Obama And Help Netanyahu
ẹ Syria And Obama's Five Excuses For Inaction: As Bashar al-Assad Continues To Kill Syrians At An Average Rate Of 100 A Day
ẹ A Week Of Disappointments For Tehran: Has The "Countdown" Started Only For Hezbollah?
ẹ Khatami And The Great Iranian Debate: Ahmadinejad - Tehran Train Has No Stop And No Rear-gear!
ẹ The Next Made In Tehran Moderate: Missing Ahmadinejad As Missing Banisadr, Rafsanjani And Khatami
ẹ Putin And Russia's Real Interests In Syria: Bad For Russia And Bad For International Peace And Stability
ẹ China: New Generation Leaders Ponder Global Role - Siding With Russia To Prolong The Bloodshed
ẹ Assad Is Preparing His Defence At The Hague: Assad Risks Finding Himself In Queer Company
ẹ Why Is Tehran Angry With Mursi? No Place For Opposition - Reflect Khamenei's Thinking