Backdrop The ambitions of the regime in Iran are a factor in American calculations about how to react to rebellions across the Arab world. ReutersThe Islamic Republic After 32 Years -- Voice of America editorial
Thirty-two years later, it is hard to juxtapose the words "Freedom" and "The Islamic Republic."
In Iran, April 1 is designated Islamic Republic Day, commemorating the official establishment of the Islamic government in 1979, following the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah, and a vote by the Iranian people supporting the change to their form of government.
In its commemorations, the Iranian regime likes to point to the slogan popular during the revolution -- "Independence, Freedom, the Islamic Republic" -- as embodying the spirit and the will of the Iranian people from those days to the present.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
The Islamic Republic After 32 Years -- Voice of America editorial
The Larger Game in the Middle East: Iran -- David Sanger, New York Times
Libya fallout: Why Iran, North Korea now less likely to drop nuclear ambitions -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
Will Libya become Obama’s Iraq? -- Meghan O’Sullivan, Washington Post
How to counter Gaddafi’s regime -- Paul Wolfowitz, Washington Post
Gaddafi's sons show psychological warfare is not all on the western side -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
Europe relies on U.S. power again: NATO defenses unbalanced -- Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times
Roots of Arab Revolt: Follow the Money - Samir Aita, Le Monde
Massacre in Mazar -- Anna Badkhen, Foreign Policy
The Mazar Killings -- Joshua Foust, registan
Will Fukushima Force Iran to Reconsider Nuclear Program? -- Karim Sadjadpour, Ali Vaez & Fariborz Ghadar, The Atlantic
Who's to blame for Fukushima? -- L.A. Times editorial
A great deal of ruin in a nation: Why Islam took a violent and intolerant turn in Pakistan, and where it might lead -- The Economist
Syria’s ‘reformer’ -- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes -- Richard Goldstone, Washington Post
Still Looking for Gitmo -- Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
A Time for Renewal in Japan -- Michael Elliott, Time
What a Difference a War Can Make -- Anthony W. Hager, American Thinker
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