On paper, the prospects for a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis seem pretty good right now. In the past, Iranian foreign policy has often appeared wild and unpredictable: Iran has lied about its nuclear facilities and provocatively test-fired missiles, all the while issuing bellicose rhetoric on the evils of Israel and America. Last [...]

As a fan of contrarian political analysis, I’ve enjoyed reading reading Daniel Larison’s take on the Iranian elections. (See here, here and here, for example.) A sample:

We pick sides like this all the time, and when we do it is almost always arbitrary, ill-informed and mistaken. For various reasons, one side in a contest is [...]

Noah Millman has a very good post on the Iranian election and what it means for US foreign policy, which is well worth reading in its entirety. I was particularly intrigued by this observation:
What will happen next? I would assume that much depends, as it did in China in 1989, on what the military [...]

Iran has exploded into mass protest and violence, in the wake of a rigged election that once again installed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power. The situation on the ground is currently changing too rapidly to keep up with, but I’ve been trying to follow developments on several blogs, including Andrew Sullivan and Juan Cole.
In brief, my [...]