by Scott Lucas | Nov 14, 2011 | Must Read, Politics, World
Scott Lucas writes for EA Worldview: Mohsen Rezaei is a big player in Iranian politics. He was head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for 16 years, and he is now the Secretary of the Expediency Council. In 2009, he was a candidate in the 2009 Presidential...
by Sam Razi | Nov 11, 2011 | Featured, Human Rights, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, World
Dave Siavashi writes for EA: According to The Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration has quietly drawn up plans to provide a key Persian Gulf ally with thousands of advanced “bunker-buster” bombs and other munitions, part of a stepped-up U.S. effort...
by Scott Lucas | Nov 10, 2011 | Featured, General, Politics, World
Scott Lucas writes for EA Worldview. The Iranian State agency IRNA may seem an unusual place to continue an analysis of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report on the Iranian nuclear programme. After all, IRNA is known more as a megaphone for the regime...
by Scott Lucas | Nov 9, 2011 | Featured, General, Must Read, Opinion, Politics
Scott Lucas writes for EA Worldview: Let’s start with the “smoking gun” statement from the IAEA that does not exactly smoke: Prior to the end of 2003….activities [which may be related to a militarised nuclear effort] took place under a...
by Scott Lucas | Nov 8, 2011 | Featured, Politics, World
In advance of our analysis in the morning, a snapshot of some of the framing and intepretation of the IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear programme…. Our take-away line at this point: “The report is more serious for Iran than previous IAEA findings but not...
