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Courtesy of the U.S. Energy Information Administration The Iran Debate Rolls On, From Kazakhstan to North America
Readers from around the world register the surprising effects of the Iran nuclear deal.
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The Iran Debate, as Seen from Central Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere
It’s a new month, the Atlantic has its new-ish Notes feature, and I’m shifting the ongoing Iran-deal discussion to this…
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Reuters Thinking About Iran, Thinking About Israel, Thinking About America
What the Iran “debate” has taught us about our ability to discuss world affairs
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Germany Info & Wikimedia Commons The Normalization of Iran: Another View From Israel
In the United States and Israel, a heated debate about whether to accept the nuclear deal with Iran continues. In the rest of the world, Iran’s reintegration is already underway.
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Office of the Prime Minister of Israel Views From Israel on the Iran Deal
Do Iran’s leaders recognize a distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism? Does it matter? Some readers in Israel weigh in.
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Wikimedia Those Who Compare the Iran Deal to Munich Are Right—but Not in the Way They Think
“Israel’s fundamental problem is that Iran is inevitably the regional hegemon once freed of the sanctions regime.”
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Wikimedia What If Barack and Bibi Are Both Right?
A set of theories for what’s really behind opposition to the Iran deal in Israel and the United States—including that the two nations’ interests may be diverging when it comes to Iran.
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Mike Segar / Reuters A Reader Condemns the Iran Deal—and Other Readers Respond
If Iran really threatens nuclear Holocaust, one asks, why aren’t opponents of the agreement demanding all-out war to stop it?
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Reuters A Reader’s Case Against the Iran Deal
“The problem with libs/progressives/dems is that they project their rational mind onto others.” An opponent of the agreement explains what supporters (like me) are getting wrong.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Headline Worth Study in The New York Times
The man bites dog / dog bites man conundrum applied to story-framing
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The President Defends His Iran Plan
Why is Barack Obama saying, “It’s the deal—or war?” Is it fear-mongering? Or “the dictates of cold, hard logic”? He explains his thinking in a conversation with journalists.
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Reuters Why the Iran Deal’s Critics Will Probably Lose
Will the nuclear agreement take effect? Consider who’s supporting and opposing it.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Real Test of the Iran Deal
The agreement doesn’t guarantee that Tehran will never produce nuclear weapons—because no agreement could do so.
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Matt Burne An Iranian Scholar Speaks About Thoreau, at Walden Pond
On the day the nuclear deal was announced, a translator on his first trip to the U.S. explained a surprising cultural connection between America and Iran.
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Library of Congress / Wikimedia Why History Gives Obama the Benefit of the Doubt on Iran
U.S. presidents of both parties have often shown better judgment in knowing when to accept diplomatic solutions than in choosing to go to war.
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Matt Burne / Walden Woods Project America and Iran, at Walden Pond
From his tiny room in Tehran, an Iranian scholar imagined what a classic American scene would look like. Here is what happened when he had a chance to see for himself.
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Who Would Jesus Bomb, and Other Imponderable Questions
A chickenhawk moment so pure it deserves extra attention
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Wikimedia Commons One of Our Major Newspapers Says: What the Hell, Why Not Start Another Unwinnable War?
On the bright side, Tom Cotton now seems statesmanlike.
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Joshua Roberts/Reuters On the Use and Misuse of History: The Netanyahu Case
"I take the Iranian threat seriously. But I suspect hysteria is unhelpful—and if that's true, so is raising the specter of the Holocaust, as Netanyahu does every time he discusses this topic. " A historian on the current state of debate.
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Reuters Readers on Netanyahu, Iran, and Existential Threats
A powerful speech, received in very different ways by different audiences
