The Tehran Public Prosecutor and the Rule of Law in Post-Election Iran
Soraya Ahangar* | 27 May 2010
Almost eight months after the disputed 2009 presidential election in Iran, life in the capital has mostly returned to normal. Aside from the occasional remains of green graffiti and burnt out trash containers, Tehran shows few signs of the demonstrations that spilled into its streets last June and continued well into December. Thanks to a comprehensive crackdown,...Cutting Military Aid Best U.S. Policy Tool to Affect Israeli Government Behavior
Josh Ruebner* | 27 May 2010
The Israeli government’s planned construction of 1,600 new housing units in a settlement in Occupied East Jerusalem, which was announced during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s March visit to Israel, could not have come at a more opportune time for the more than 150 grassroots activists who participated in the March 8th Capitol Hill lobbying day, sponsored...Who Is In Charge?: the Murky Relationship Between the Supreme Leader and Ahmadinejad
Ali Ahmadi Motlagh* | 27 May 2010
In runoff elections on June 24 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad convincingly defeated the powerful former president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to become Iran’s sixth president. On August 3, his victory was endorsed by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. During the televised inauguration ceremony both men made a point...BDS at UC Berkeley: The Campaign, The Vote, and The Veto
Youmna Derby and Dina Omar* | 27 May 2010
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice...Crisis? What Crisis? : U.S.-Israel Relations and the Demise of the Peace Process
Ben White* | 27 May 2010
In September 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ushered in a much-trumpeted “freeze” on West Bank settlement construction, as a supposed goodwill gesture to revive the defunct peace process. The...
