The purpose of this note is to share my views with the leaders and peoples of the United States and Iran in the hope that they might contribute to the formulation of a more adequate response to the proposal presented for ending the nuclear crisis with Iran, particularly at this critical historical juncture. The original version f this article was written in Persian and published in the Tehran-based Kargozaraan Daily, an official publication of the Kargozaraan Party. That version addressed the Iranian Government as its primary audience. This English version has been adopted to also address the Bush Administration but it still addresses the Iranian Government more directly...

Recently, “Mirase Gooya”, an Iranian TV channel, interviewed Dr. Amirahmadi (in Farsi). Please click the link below to read the interview.

IRAN IS considering the package of incentives the major powers presented in an effort to resolve the crisis over Iran's nuclear program. The US willingness to talk -- under certain conditions -- is an overdue step in the right direction. But for diplomacy to work, the United States needs a strategy that gives Iranian advocates of compromise a chance of winning the internal Iranian debate. Read full

Abbas Maleki's other publications

Iran is eager to defuse the nuclear squabble
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c6310 ec4-df83-11da-afe4- 0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=413f4e90-8689-11da-8521- 0000779e2340.html

Harvard Researchers Propose Plan to Resolve Iran Nuclear Crisis
http://bcsia.ksg.h arvard.edu/whatsnew.cfm? program=STPP&nt=top&pb_id=523

About Maleki
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard .edu/person.cfm?program=CORE&item_id=949

Dr. Amirahmadi participated in the Stanley Foundation’s conference entitled “Nuclear Weapons, Energy, and Nonproliferation: Pressures on the Global Community”. The conference was attended by a large group of ambassadors to the United Nations including representatives of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Romania, Norway, Japan, and Russia. The conference took place from June 16th to the 21st in Sedona, Arizona. While the discussion was “off the record”, a content summary will soon be available from AIC.

http://www.amirahmadi.org/Confer ence/The%20Stanley%20Foundation.pdf

Dr. Amirahmadi joined Ray Takeyh and others in speaking at Calyon Security’s “Conference on Iran: Issues & Outlook”. The NYC conference was held at the Calyon Building on June 28th.

http://www.amirahmadi.org/ Conference/iran_conference_invitation.pdf

Dr. Amirahmadi's next conference is taking place from July 12th to July 15th at a Forum on Global Energy, Economy, and Security in Aspen, Colorado. Dr. Amirahmadi will be joining a number of experts on energy field. He will discuss how national concerns of Iran influence the energy decisions of both exporting and importing nations. For more information please contact The Aspen Institute.

http://www.amirahmadi.org/ Conference/AgendaEnergySecurityJuly.pdf

July 16 is the National Women’s Day in Iran. AIC would like to acknowledge and congratulate Iranian women in their calls for recognition and equality. On March 8th, the International Women’s Day, peaceful demonstrations were violently suppressed by Iranian police. One participant told Human Rights Watch that within minutes, after agents photographed and videotaped the gathering, the police told the crowd to disperse. In response, the participants staged a sit-in and started to sing the anthem of the women’s rights movement. The security forces then dumped cans of garbage on the heads of women who were seated before charging into the group and beating them with batons to compel them to leave the park.

Among those present at the gathering was Simin Behbahani, a renowned Iranian poet. According to an eyewitness, “Behbahani was beaten with a baton, and when people protested that she is in her 70s and she can barely see, the security officer kicked her several times and continued to hit her with his baton.” The security forces also took several foreign journalists into custody and confiscated their photographic equipment and video footage before releasing them. Among those arrested was Dr. Farideh Farhi, Editor of the AIC Insight. Farideh was freed from the notorious Evin Prison within 4 days.The attack on women’s rights activists highlights the Iranian government’s consistent policy of suppressing freedom of association and assembly, Human Rights Watch said.

Japeh Youssefi is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of ISmart, LLC. Mr. Youssefi has earned the reputation of being a vocal supporter of Iran-US rapprochement and détente. He was born on June 5th 1961, and grew up in Tehran, Iran. In 1977, at the age of 16, he moved to the U.S. to pursue his academic goals. He received a bachelor's degree from Towson State University in the field of Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science. He then enrolled in the University of Maryland to study Electro physics and served as a student tutor and assistant in laser research labs at the University of Maryland. In 2005, Mr. Youssefi established the Homa TV, a satellite TV channel that has become very popular with the Iranian viewers throughout that country.

http://www.american- iranian.org/home.php?mains=10&subs=143

AIC has conducted many conferences in the past years. You may have been a participant in one of these events. To view your pictures, please click the link below.

http://www.american- iranian.org/home.php?mains=10&subs=162

Better Carrots, Not Centrifuges: Why Iran must halt enrichment and How the U.S. can make it happen
http:// www.isis- online.org/publications/iran/iranissuebrief.pdf

When could Iran get the Bomb?
http://www.thebulletin.org/arti cle.php?art_ofn=ja06albright

A More Open Mind Toward Iran
http://www.sph.umich.edu/news_events/ pdf/inhorn%20iran.pdf

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