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Opinion: While World Looks Away, Iran Cracks Down

While the world focuses its attention on the unrest in Libya, and on other Middle Eastern countries trying to throw off tyrannical leaders, Iran is seizing the opportunity to increase repression of its political dissidents. On Monday, Iranian opposition websites confirmed that security forces have arrested two 2009...

US Turns Up Pressure on Iran After Egypt Ousts Mubarak

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration sent a not-too-subtle message to Iran today that the uprising in Egypt that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak could spread and reinvigorate demands for more freedom in Tehran. In a speech in Louisville, Ky., Vice President Joe Biden called the events in Egypt "a pivotal...

Opinion: After Egypt, Is Iran Next?

Egypt and Iran are now joined by a date on the calendar: Feb. 11 is Revolution Day in both countries. But Egypt has a far better chance at realizing the hopes of its revolutionaries for a transition to real democracy than Iran did 32 years ago. Unlike Iran, where the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...

Opinion: Egypt's Challenge to Iran

Almost as soon as protests in Egypt erupted, Iran tried to use the unrest to step up anti-American propaganda and project power in the region. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Friday that the popular uprisings against Western-backed regimes in the Middle East signified an "Islamic awakening" that will...

Is a Beleaguered Iran Ripe for Nuclear Negotiation?

(Dec.1) -- Iran enters next week's negotiations with the United States and other world powers boasting a long record of outfoxing opponents of its nuclear ambitions. But this time Tehran comes to the table under nearly unprecedented international and domestic pressure to relinquish enrichment of uranium and other...