OBAMA: THE GRAND ILLUSION

Will President Obama go down in history for having set a new course on foreign policy, or for having shown unexpected continuity with his predecessor? As one of his first acts after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year. “This is me,”…

Iran`s Sharia will kill Sakineh Ashtiani

UNDER THE VEIL BY ROYA HAKAKIAN Before the UN, EU, or White House draft a new proposal on Iran, they should master the details of the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old woman on death/stoning row. What makes Sakineh’s case worth the policymakers’ time is more than the usual human rights argument against befriending…