Archivo etiqueta «Irán»
By James A. Lyons, retired Navy Adm. was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/03/10):
Had the opposition “green movement” been successful with its Feb. 11 attempt to flood the streets of Tehran with hundreds of thousands of protesters on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the illegitimate regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would have been dealt a severe blow.
However, this plan was crushed before it ever got started by the heavy security measures enforced by Mr. Ahmadinejad and the hard-line clerics. The Iranian… Seguir leyendo
By James M. Lindsay, senior vice president and Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Their article “After Iran Gets the Bomb” will be published in the March-April issue of Foreign Affairs (THE WASHINGTON POST, 21/02/10):
As Iran relentlessly moves toward acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, calls will grow for the United States to think seriously about how to contain Tehran. A preventive attack will not work, some will argue, and could unleash a wave of terrorism that would further imperil Iraq and Afghanistan. Conversely, containment will be held up as a way to deter Tehran… Seguir leyendo
By Paula A. DeSutter, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation from 2002-2009 (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 19/02/10):
All is not necessarily lost with respect to Iran. But we must be clear on our objectives, strategy, and tools. There is urgency and opportunity if we do so.
US Objectives: What objectives are core to US national security? First, elimination of the threat posed by the Islamic Republic regionally and globally. This requires elimination of its nuclear, chemical, and biological programs and their means of delivery. It also requires eliminating its support for terrorism.
Second, since all previous efforts to… Seguir leyendo
Por Ramin Jahanbegloo, filósofo iraní y catedrático de Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Toronto. © 2010 Global Viewpoint Network / Tribune Media Services. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 14/02/10):
Hace 31 años, la revolución iraní derrocó la monarquía de la familia Pahlevi. Nadie había sido capaz de predecir la caída del Sha, que estaba convencido de que era muy popular entre su pueblo. Su mayor tragedia, por consiguiente, fue que el monarca se convirtió en víctima de su propia fantasía.
Hoy, la cuestión fundamental que plantea Irán es dilucidar si el régimen islámico que sustituyó al… Seguir leyendo
Por Abraham B. Yehoshua, escritor israelí, impulsor del movimiento Paz Ahora (LA VANGUARDIA, 13/02/10):
Desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial no han dejado de producirse en el mundo matanzas donde se ha exterminado a poblaciones enteras. Recordemos, por ejemplo, los casos de Angola, Camboya con los jemeres rojos, la guerra tribal en Ruanda, la guerra de los Balcanes, sin olvidar las atrocidades cometidas bajo el régimen estalinista contra pueblos de la antigua Unión Soviética. Y a pesar de esto, la ONU decidió fijar específicamente un día en recuerdo del holocausto judío en Europa. ¿Por qué? ¿Qué hay de… Seguir leyendo
By Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of War of Necessity, War of Choice: a Memoir of Two Iraq Wars (THE TIMES, 12/02/10):
In Iran the clock is ticking. In fact, three clocks are ticking simultaneously — in the country’s nuclear laboratories, at the negotiating table and on the streets. Its future depends on which clock ticks fastest.
Demonstrations filled the streets yesterday, accompanied by the clear sound of a political crackdown as the regime’s supporters and opponents squared up. But for all the sound and fury the two sides were like boxers… Seguir leyendo
By Ali Safavi, a member of Iran’s parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 12/02/10):
It was a cold autumn day in 1978 in Los Angeles when I saw on the evening news that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had gone to the Paris suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau from exile in Iraq. To a young student activist in the anti-shah movement, it seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. Having studied theories of social change as a sociology student at UCLA, I really wanted to be part of the revolution that was about to sweep my country.
I took the next… Seguir leyendo
By Jean-Francois Julliard, general secretary of Reporters Without Borders (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/02/10):
Who knows exactly what happened in Iran during the demonstrations Thursday marking the anniversary of the Islamic revolution? Thousands of images and stories have leaked out of the country since the disputed presidential election last June. But it is extremely difficult to verify information. Those foreign reporters who get visas are forbidden to cover opposition demonstrations. As for the local reporters who have not been jailed or fled the country, their main concerns are how to be efficient, now that a dozen newspapers have been closed since… Seguir leyendo
Por Shirin Ebadi, premio Nobel de la Paz y presidenta de la Organización de los Defensores de los Derechos Humanos (EL MUNDO, 11/02/10):
No cabe duda de que Irán está atravesando días duros en los que se está trazando su destino y, por esta misma razón, cualquier opinión, declaración, decisión o iniciativa por parte de todos cuenta con mucha importancia y responsabilidad, ya sea por parte del Gobierno, por parte de los que están bajo las garras de la violencia gubernamental o por parte de cualquier persona amante de la patria y de la libertad y que tenga su alma… Seguir leyendo
By Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies anf a former Middle Eastern specialist in the C.I.A.’s clandestine service (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/02/10):
On Thursday, the birthday of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will see whether the democratic opposition movement has been driven underground by the increasingly brutal harassment from the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian society has become like molten rock under high pressure: more eruptions are inevitable. And if the dissidents can take to the streets, they will.
In any case, the fraudulent June 12 presidential elections and the… Seguir leyendo
By Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian reporter for Newsweek who was imprisoned in Tehran from June to October 2009 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/02/10):
Dear Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
Your government and supporters think of you as God’s representative on earth. Your official title is “Supreme Leader,” so you are responsible for all the wrongs and rights that happen in our country.
You have also been called the “No. 1 enemy of journalists in the world” because your government has arrested dozens of them since the presidential elections in June 2009. More than 60 are still in your prisons.
I was unfortunate… Seguir leyendo
By Brian Binley, a Conservative Party member of the British Parliament (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/02/10):
Iran’s nuclear activities – this week ramped up with fresh plans to expand uranium enrichment – and its sponsorship of international terrorism pose an ever-growing threat that must be dealt with by the international community. A year after President Obama took office, his administration talks little of a policy of rapprochement toward Iran, and indeed, he has decided to strengthen the U.S. fleet in the Persian Gulf to counter what he clearly sees as a heightened threat. However, both the European Union and the Americans… Seguir leyendo
By Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska Republican, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia (THE WASHINGTON POST, 10/02/10):
Unless we improve our strategy, the world will awaken very soon to the headline, “Iran has the nuclear bomb.”
For many years, the United States and other world powers have tried various tactics to halt the nuclear ambitions of Tehran’s clerical elites. They have, in essence, litigated Iran’s case in the United Nations Security Council. They have imposed several rounds of economic sanctions. And they have tried to engage Iran with diplomacy,… Seguir leyendo
By Adam B. Lowther, a defense analyst at the Air Force Research Institute (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/02/10):
With Iran having notified the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency that it is now enriching its stockpile of uranium to a higher level, we should admit that Washington’s approach to countering the Islamic Republic is leading nowhere. What’s needed, however, may be less of a change of plan than a change in how we view the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.
Believe it or not, there are some potential benefits to the United States should Iran build a bomb. (I’m speaking for… Seguir leyendo
By Joshua Prager, who is writing a book about his recovery from quadriplegia and will be a 2011 Nieman Fellow at Harvard (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 08/02/10):
On June 20, a young Iranian woman was shot dead at one of the mass protests that followed the contested re- election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Millions of people around the world watched video of Neda Agha-Soltan hemorrhaging on Tehran’s Karegar Street, and hers became the tragic, beautiful and galvanizing face of the reform movement in Iran.
Witnesses implicated a member of the Basij, the governmental militia, in Agha-Soltan’s death. But an Iranian ambassador… Seguir leyendo