Iran is infamous for its undercover police agents who patrol the streets of Tehran in search of immoral practices. Ironically the "secret police" are hypocritical and acting contradictory to the Islamic Republics strict moral code, because they do not have the typical fundamentalist demeanor but are clean-shaven men and attractive women with makeup.

It would make sense for the U.S. government to open up an initially low-level line of communications with Hamas in Gaza and even with Tehran. (It would have been vastly better if either President Bill Clinton or President George W. Bush had had the wisdom to start such a dialog when Muhammad Khatami was president of Iran. But they both seemed determined to throw that opportunity away.)

Iranian voters – 44 million of them – cast their ballots on March 14, in the countrys eighth parliamentary election since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Surprisingly, many in the media and in the "chattering classes" still view Iran as a democracy, albeit of an "Islamic" type.

Under fire domestically for failing to deliver on his economic promises, is Mahmoud Ahmadinejads controversial presidency nearing its end?

Eternally Unelected, Extremely Vulnerable

Iran Reinstates Khomeinis Son: Sign of Reform?

If only U.S. President George W. Bush had mistaken the Middle East for Africa we might all be a lot happier and more secure.

A mountain of diplomacy has given birth to a molehill of sanctions. Аfter months of negotiations, the troika (United States, China and Russia), as well as the EU-3, (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) approved a draft U.N. Security Council resolution which will fail to introduce new significant sanctions against Iran over its uranium enrichment program.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has, in one form or another, managed to keep Iran in the headlines since his election in 2005; though not always in a positive manner.

The first thing to say about U.S. President George W. Bushs travels around the region to push the cause of an Israeli-Palestinian peace is that it is extremely welcome: The second thing to say is that it would have been much more welcome had it occurred seven years ago, before 3,000 to 5,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis had lost their lives during the second intifada.