Tag Archives: Iran

Kissed to death by America

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Martin Kramer

People in and around the Obama administration are taking the position that his low key on Iran is carefully calculated. It’s not that he doesn’t sympathize with the protesters, he just doesn’t want their cause to be identified with the … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Middle East map in shreds

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Martin Kramer

There is nothing at all surprising about Barack Obama’s reluctance to embrace the surge for freedom in Iran. As I’ve shown, he received his primer on the Middle East from Rashid Khalidi, who facilitated Obama’s formation as a Palestine-centric Third … Continue reading →

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Iranian turmoil

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Martin Kramer

My short assessment of the turmoil in Iran appears (with nine other expert assessments) at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), and is reproduced here at Sandbox. There are days when I’m supremely grateful that I’m not paid to make … Continue reading →

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Miss Lambton’s advice

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Martin Kramer

Ann (Nancy) K.S. Lambton, the distinguished British historian of medieval and modern Iran, died on July 19 at the age of 96. Her obituaries tell some of her remarkable story as a pioneering scholar and a formidable personality. They are … Continue reading →

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Geopolitics of the Jews

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Martin Kramer

In 2007, Martin Kramer flagged five future developments that could alter Israel’s geopolitics. How many have come true? Almost all. Continue reading →

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