Iran and the Goldilocks Principle: Why Kuperman is Completely Wrong and the Leveretts are Only Partly Right and There are no Tunnel Bombs

(Blog Post) In the past three weeks, Iran observers have been baffled by the range of opinion appearing on the op-ed page of The New York Times concerning Iran, and the uneven reporting on that country. Before the holidays, Alan Kuperman, a political scientist at the University of Texas Austin, called for bombing Iran-- becoming the first respectable academic in the US to take a position usually associated with discredited angry Neoconservatives such as John Bolton. ... Full Story »

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by Judith Bello - Jan. 7, 2010

Great article. It's about time someone responded to all the crazy spin on Iran with some straight talk about what is known and what is reasonable to assume on that basis.

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