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AIC
UPDATE - November
2006 | Vol. 3 | No. 53
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| Iran and the International Community: Roots of the Perpetual Crisis - Hooshang Amirahmadi |
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Middle East Institute’s Sixtieth Anniversary
Conference
Washington, DC, November 13, 2006
Hooshang Amirahmadi
Rutgers University, NJ, USA
www.amirahmadi.
com
Good Afternoon!
Let me began by thanking Dr. John Limbert for his
kind introduction. I am equally grateful to the Middle
East Institute and its Acting President Ambassador
David Mack for their invitation! I congratulate and
salute the MEI for sixty years of uninterrupted and
distinguished service to the American and Middle
Eastern peoples and governments to better
understand each other and for developing closer
amity and more productive relationships. For the
benefit of time, I will present a shorter version of my
arguments, making the longer version available in
print [the present version].
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran’s
international relations have been marked by more
than occasional instability and turbulences,
entangling Tehran into costly periodic crises vis-à-vis
individual nations or groups of nations. In this
context, I define “crisis” as a condition in which
Iran’s foreign policies have come into conflict with its
own national interests or the national interests of
other nations, leading to a significant decline in Iran’s
international standing. The most significant of these
crises are: the hostage crisis in Tehran, the War with
Iraq, the “spiral conflict” with the United States, the
sustained internal struggle over foreign policy, and
the current nuclear predicament.
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| News and Analysis - Sharon R. Delshad, J.D. - AIC Volunteer |
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Summary: The “News and Analysis” highlights
developments and arguments relating to the recent
Negotiations between Iran and U.S. with Iraq “On the
Top of the Agenda”,
U.S. Elections, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Resigns; President Proposes Former CIA Chief as
Successor, Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions, Baker-Hamilton
Study Group on Iraq and Iran on Lebanon.
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| In Memory of the Forouhars (1928-1998) |
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Eight years ago, in 1998, Dariush and Parvaneh
Forouhar were murdered in their Tehran home. The
murders, which were politically motivated, remain
unsolved to this day. It is generally believed that
rogue elements within Iran’s Information Ministry at
the time were responsible for the terror plan. We
hope that the truth will come out one day soon and
that the perpetrators will face justice.
Dariush Forouhar was the leader of the Hezb-e Mellat-
e Iran (Nation of Iran Party), a pan-Iranist opposition
party in Iran which he founded in 1951. He was born
in Isfahan and was formerly the Minister of Labor in
the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Mehdi
Bazargan in 1979. During his short term as Minister of
Labor, Dr. Forouhar took an active role in mediating
the troubles that had developed in Iran’s Kurdish
Province.
During the previous regime, the Pahlavi era, he was
very active in the anti-Shah nationalist movement
and a strong supporter of the democratically elected
Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq, the leader of
Iran’s National Front, who was overthrown by a
British-engineered coup assisted by the CIA. The
memory of that coup still plagues US-Iran
relations.
I met Dr. Forouhar in Tehran in the summer of 1997
for the first time. We met at Ketab Sara, a book-
publishing company, along with two other colleagues,
and had a very lively conversation about Iran, the
Islamic regime, and the future of the Republic. He
was quite critical of the domestic political situation
but also optimistic about the country’s future. I felt
he was very courageous in speaking his mind so
openly but also a bit idealistic about what could be
done.
Whatever his views, Dr. Forouhar, who struggled for
Iran’s national rights and for democracy in that
country for more than half a century, was an honest,
wise and peaceful man. At no point in our discussion
did he advocate regime change. He believed in a non-
violent and lawful political struggle for reform and
demanded that political parties, including his own, be
allowed to participate in the nation’s politics.
Dr. Forouhar and his wife, Parvaneh, will be fondly
remembered by all Iranians who deeply care for their
nation’s democratic and independent development.
We send greetings to Arash, their son, and Parastu,
their daughter, as well as to all of their friends,
relatives, and admirers, and wish them the best in
their struggle for democracy and the national
development of their homeland.
Hooshang Amirahmadi, Ph.D.
Princeton, NJ
November 2006
Foruhar ha
http://www.ir
an-emrooz.net/index.php?/news1/11034/
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| The End of the Nonproliferation Regime? - George Perkovich |
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The effort to constrain the acquisition and
use of nuclear weapons is perhaps the most
ambitious attempt ever made to extend the
civilizing reach of the rule of law over humankind’s
destructive capacity. The United States, the Soviet
Union, and other states laid the foundation for this
mission in the 1960s with the negotiation of the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (npt)...
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