Iran - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/iran/?source=rss&aim=iran en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT Obama's foreign policy report card By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/26/obama_report_card/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/26/obama_report_card/index.html?source=rss You'd never know it from the MSM, but he deserves high grades for his work so far in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan The universality of extremists By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/08/extremists/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/08/extremists/index.html?source=rss Iranian "hard-liners" sound just like America's neocons when opposing negotiations. Donors should be rewarded for their kidneys By Frances Kissling Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/25/organ_trafficking/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/25/organ_trafficking/index.html?source=rss Millions of people like me need kidneys and there aren't enough. The government should give benefits to live donors Does Iran really want the bomb? By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/07/iran_nuclear/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/07/iran_nuclear/index.html?source=rss Perhaps what Iran wants is the ability to produce a nuclear weapon fast, rather than have a standing arsenal Obama trumpets progress in Iran nuke talks By Alex Koppelman Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/01/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/01/iran/index.html?source=rss The president celebrates a step towards inspections of nuclear facilities, but lays down some demands Stephanopoulos and Ledeen: together in the most accountability-free profession By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/04/stephanopoulos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/04/stephanopoulos/index.html?source=rss Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct. The Washington Post's 2002 "reporting" on Iran By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/24/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/24/iran/index.html?source=rss Anonymous sources. Scary war-fueling claims. One-sided accounts. Sound familiar? David Rohde on the "why do they hate us?" question By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/19/rohde/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/19/rohde/index.html?source=rss A new poll shows substantial support for bombing and invading Iran. The still-missing central fact in the Iran drama By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/07/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/07/iran/index.html?source=rss The American media repeatedly asserts that Iran found out it got caught "red-handed." There's no evidence of that. Iran: More accomplished in one day of negotiations than in 8 years of threats By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/02/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/02/iran/index.html?source=rss Iran's concessions underscore the factual distortions in America's media discussions The top ten things you didn't know about Iran By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/01/cole/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/01/cole/index.html?source=rss The assumptions most Americans hold about Iran and its policies are wrong Is Obama man or mouse? By Gene Lyons Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/01/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/01/iran/index.html?source=rss Asks the Beltway punditocracy, which treats foreign policy like a theater of machismo Iran has no interest in compromise By Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/30/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/30/iran/index.html?source=rss There is little hope that negotiations between Tehran and the U.S. will lead to progress on Iran's nuclear plans How similar are the cases against Iran and Iraq? By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/30/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/30/iran/index.html?source=rss The NYT explores whether government and media behavior now differ from what happened in 2002. Is the media exaggerating the Iranian nuke threat? By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/cole/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/cole/index.html?source=rss If Iran is open to U.N. inspections, it's probably not constructing nuclear weapons The end of the Pax Americana? By Michael Lind Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/obama_pax_americana/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/obama_pax_americana/index.html?source=rss Obama has the chance to end our Cold War hangover, and start an era where the U.S. is not the sole global policeman Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/26/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/26/iran/index.html?source=rss The claims about Iran raise more questions than they answer. Virtually none is being asked by America's media. Obama undercuts Iran By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/25/iran_russia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/25/iran_russia/index.html?source=rss With nuclear fears growing, the president's shrewd moves are winning Russian support for boxing in Iran Obama takes new, harder line on Iran By Alex Koppelman Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/25/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/25/iran/index.html?source=rss The president talks tough after news of an additional Iranian uranium enrichment facility Does Iran want to be a pariah? By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/22/ahmadinejad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/22/ahmadinejad/index.html?source=rss As Ahmadinejad heads for the U.S., he and Iran's other hard-liners seem bent on increasing their nation's isolation Homophobia on the rise in the Muslim world By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Daniel Steinvorth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/18/gay_muslim/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/18/gay_muslim/index.html?source=rss As recent incidents in Iraq show, in many Islamic countries, gays are ostracized, persecuted, even murdered The Post: U.S. must demand accountability for due process and torture abuses -- in Iran By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/16/delusions/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/16/delusions/index.html?source=rss This would be an excellent way to create a jovial climate for negotiations: provoke a group laughing fit. Annals of globalization, cont. By Andrew Leonard Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/01/annals_of_globalization/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/01/annals_of_globalization/index.html?source=rss How many fingers were in the military-weapons-from-North-Korea-to-Iran pie? A forced breakthrough in the Middle East By Erich Follath and Christoph Schult Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/31/peace/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/31/peace/index.html?source=rss If Obama can get Israel to agree to stop building new settlements, there may be a new opportunity for peace