Treacherous Alliance

Op-eds and Commentary

Can Khatami Make a Comeback?, Huffington Post, February 8, 2009.
Did Obama Wink at Tehran?, Huffington Post, January 23, 2009.
Israel, Iran and Gaza: Trapping Obama in Imagined Fault lines, HuffingtonPost, January 13, 2009.
Why diplomacy and sanctions don't mix, BitterLemons, December 4, 2008.
How to Stop an Iranian Bomb, The Guardian, October 31, 2008. (With Andreas Persbo)
Blog post on Rootless Cosmopolitan, Israel Gets real on Iran, October 15, 2008.
Deciding the fate of the Mujahedin, Washington Times, October 5, 2008
Drawing a red line with Iran, International Herald Tribune, July 28, 2008. (With Anatol Lieven)
These enemies have faces, Haaretz, July 18, 2008. (With Roi Ben-Yehuda)
Reading Solana in Tehran, IPS, July 7, 2008.
The alternative to an Israeli attack on Iran, Christian Science Monitor, July 2, 2008. (Co-authored with Shlomo Ben-Ami)
Mismarriage of Convenience, Foreign Policy Magazine, June 10, 2008.
Larijani's Election Can Boost Congressional Diplomacy, IPS, June 4, 2008.
Can P5+1 Offer Break the Nuclear Stalemate?, IPS, May 9, 2008.
Can the U.S. and Iran Share the Middle East?, IPS, April 18, 2007.
How to reduce tensions and promote human rights in Iran,Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 27, 2008.
Will Naval Incident Undermine Bush's Iran Message?, IPS, January 9, 2008.
The Case for Talking to Tehran, The Forward, December 19, 2007.
Denying Iran's Democrats, Huffington Post, December 19, 2007.
Iran must be included in peace talks, Newsday, December 12, 2007.
Is Iran NIE a Blessing in Disguise for Israel?, IPS, December 6, 2007.
The Iranian Challenge, The Nation, November 19, 2007.
Letter to Editor - WSJ, October 22, 2007.
A sober analysis of Iran, Ynet News, October 14, 2007.
Iran, the Inflatable Bogey, Rootless Cosmopolitan (Tony Karon's blog), October 10, 2007.
Iran and Israel: The Avoidable War, Middle East Policy, Volume XIV, Fall 2007 (3).
Fund bridges, not failed policy, The Hill, September 11, 2007.
"Long Division," The American Conservative, September 10, 2007.
Bush Indictment of Iran Tops Usual Rhetoric, IPS, August 29, 2007.
Terror Label for Guard Corp Entrenches US-Iran Enmity, IPS, August 15, 2007.
US-IRAN: New War Rhetoric Undercuts Iraq Talks, IPS, June 12, 2007.
Scholars Bear Brunt of Anti-Diplomacy Backlash, Ips, May 23, 2007.
Sweden Could Begin A New Diplomatic Track With Iran, Svt, May 11, 2007. (Swedish Version)
Can Europe End The Lose-Lose Game With Iran?, Ips, May 10, 2007.
Duel For Leverage Fuels Conflict, Not Diplomacy, Ips, March 30, 2007.
Will Surge Hurt US More Than Sanctions Hurt Iran?, Ips, February 26, 2007.
What If Iran Suspends? A Western Dilemma, Ips, January 26, 2007.
Bush's Iraq Plan - Goading Iran Into War, Ips, January 12, 2007.
US Failure To Talk To Iran Is A Key Contributor To The Region's Instability, Financial Times, January 3, 2006.
Blair's Mideast Message Echoes Past Failure, Ips, December 22, 2006.
Iran is Key To Course Change on Iraq, Ips, November 9, 2006.
Italy Boosts Talks on Iran, But Real Test Lies Ahead, Antiwar.Com, September 21, 2006.
EU And Iran Find Their Roles Reversed, Ips, September 7, 2006.
Washington's Enrichment Fetish, Tompaine.Com, August 28, 2006.
Europe Has Six Days to Resolve Suspension Dilemma, Ips, August 25, 2006.
Niac Brief: Influencing Iran’s Nuclear Options, Niac, August 7, 2006.
Niac Brief: Is Iran Behind the War in Lebanon?, Niac, July 24, 2006.
Israel Readies for Iran Showdown by Attacking Lebanon, Ips, July 17, 2006.
A Parallel Strategy Can Free Washington, Bitterlemons-International, July 7, 2006.
Israel Fears High Price for U.S. Strike on Iran, IPS, July 5, 2006.
Under the Veil of Ideology: The Israeli-Iranian Strategic Rivalry, MIDDLE EAST REPORT ONLINE, June 9, 2006.
Gulf States Rethink U.S.-Led Security Alliance, IPS, June 1, 2006.
The United States’s double-vision in Iran, OpenDemocrcay, May 9, 2006.
A Modus Vivendi Between Jerusalem and Tehran, Forward, March 17, 2006.
A challenge to Israel's strategic primacy, Bitterlemons.org, January 05, 2006.
Is nuclear parity with Iran a blessing in disguise for Israel?, Jane's Intelligence Review, January 2006.
Iran is awaiting a much fairer Western nuclear offer, Daily Star, November 8, 2005.
Ahmadinejad's speech and the Iran-Israel Cold War, OpenDemocracy.net , October 28, 2005.
Europe's mendacity doomed Iran talks to failure, Financial Times, August 31, 2005.
The Unwitting China-Iran Axis, The Globalist, August 10, 2005.
Who Lost Iran? Jerusalem Post, July 28, 2005.
Iran Policy - Is Turkey the model? The Globalist, July 18, 2005.
Iranian Public Opinion and Tehran's Nuclear Program, Tharwa Project , April 4, 2005.
America's Failure May Lie in Its Own Success, Bitterlemons.org , March 17, 2005.
Reconnecting Iran with Democracy, Financial Times , January 3, 2005.
Wither the Persian-Jewish alliance? Bitterlemons.org , December 16, 2004.
Victorious Bush has rare chance to bring Tehran in from the cold, Daily Star , Nov 5, 2004

Academic Publications

"Gerusalemme e Teheran: il nuovo bipolarismo," Aspenia, June 2007.
"The Price of Not Talking to Iran," World Policy Journal, Winter 2006.
"Israel and the Origins of Iran’s Arab Option: Dissection of a Strategy Misunderstood," Middle East Journal, Volume 60, Number 3, Summer 2006.
"Israeli-Iranian relations 1979-2005," Encyclopedia Iranica, Fascicle 6, volume XIII.
"Ahmadinejad's Rhetoric and the Essence of the Israeli-Iranian Clash," ESIS Journal, no 1, December 2005.
"The geo-strategic roots of the Israeli-Iranian enmity," Limes - Eurasian Review of Geopolitics, no 5, 2005.
Israel-Iranian Relations Assessed: Strategic Competition form the Power Cycle Perspective," Iranian Studies, volume 38, number 2, June 2005.

The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States

Op-eds and Commentary

Denying Iran's Democrats, Huffington Post, December 19, 2007.

Academic Publications