Jubin Afshar
Jubin Afshar, is Director of the Near East Project at Near East Policy Research in Washington, D.C.
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Articles by Jubin Afshar
April 01, 2007
As the drama in Tehran over the detention of 15 British marines drags on, the Iranian regime continues to escalate the confrontation. Today about 200 Iranian revolutionary guards and intelligence agents dressed up as Iranian “students” threw rocks and firecrackers at the British Embassy and scaled i...
March 25, 2007
Iran has once again seized British sailors just like it did three years ago. In that episode Iran managed to extract as much leverage on the British government as it could to steer itself through rough international waters designed to halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The seizure of the Briti...
March 21, 2007
Among the most curious aspects of the debate over how to handle the rogue Iranian regime is perhaps the strew of Iran pundits who consistently argue in favor of accepting the current status quo in Iran, recognizing the Iranian regime as a major regional power, and providing security guarantees for i...
March 14, 2007
Political initiatives to resolve the Iraqi crisis usually attract much attention. The International Baghdad Conference on 10 March drew together Iraq’s regional and international partners for a one day conference. The spotlight however was more than anything else on the US delegates, Ambassadors Dav...
May 17, 2006
In the past few weeks a chorus of influential voices in foreign policy circles in the United States and Europe has expressed concern over the perceived ?march to war? by the Bush Administration, prompting emphatic appeals for direct dialogue between the US and the world's "most active state sponsor ...
April 15, 2006
The president of the Iranian regime called it "good news." The world, however, looked on with deep concern and condemned the latest provocation by Iran’s theocracy in enriching uranium after 18 years of pursuing a covert nuclear program that many suspect is aimed at producing nuclear weapons capabil...
April 13, 2006
In its Editorial on April 13, 2006, "Iran's challenge," the Boston Globe contended that negotiations with the Iranian regime to grant it security guarantees and economic benefits and compensation in return for halting its pursuit of nuclear weapons may be a way out of the current impasse where the b...
April 02, 2006
Iran figures to be the most urgent foreign policy crisis on the agenda for the international community in 2006. With the rise of an overtly belligerent foreign policy under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian regime has quickly made a carefully calculated move to project its virulent Islamic fundamenta...
March 26, 2006
The recent debate between Michael Rubin[1] and Iranian-Americans such as Jalal Arani[2] and Dr. Ali Safavi[3], as well as Clare Lopez[4] of the IPC, illustrate just how significant the Mujahedeen of Iran are in the Iranian puzzle and how urgently the US needs to get its policy house in order.
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