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MEDVEDEV MEETS OBAMA: RUSSIA-IRAN RELATIONS SHOULD BE RE-EXAMINED Russia's ongoing attempt to balance among multiple interests vis-à-vis Iran offers enormous strategic opportunities for the United States.

THE GREEN MOVEMENT IS NOT THE FUTURE OF IRAN The ongoing political competition in the Islamic Republic between reformists and conservatives is more complicated than most Western analysts and commentators recognize.

AGENDA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM AND THE LUST FOR “REGIME CHANGE” IN IRAN Washington needs less poetry about contemporary Iranian politics—and more non-rhyming analysis grounded in actual, on-the-ground reality.

THE REAL STRATEGIC CHALLENGE THAT TURKEY AND IRAN POSE TO ISRAEL Iran and Turkey threaten Israel's regional hegemony, embodied in its unchallenged freedom of military action in the Middle East.

IRAN, THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD AND THE SECURITY COUNCIL’S LOOMING LEGITIMACY CRISIS The deal to refuel the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) brokered by Brazil and Turkey should serve as a blaring wake-up call that the post-American world is here.

MISREADING KHAMENEI’S APPROACH TO THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN’S GEOPOLITICS Ayatollah Khamenei's recent statements reflect a growing perception in Tehran that the United States is a power in steep and accelerating decline.

Video of the Leveretts on Charlie Rose Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett appeared on The Charlie Rose Show.