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Interview with Hossein Mousavian
''Iran Will Not Negotiate under Threat''
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, spokesman for the former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani and once the Iranian ambassador to Germany, sees a realistic chance for a resolution of the nuclear crisis despite the escalation of the conflict. Direct talks with the USA are both possible and necessary, says the former diplomat. An interview by Silke Mertins
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David Grossman on a Possible Israeli Strike against Iran
On Silence
In this article, the Israeli author David Grossman considers why those Israelis who in private express opposition to the idea of an attack on Iran and believe that it will not increase Israel's security in the long term are not standing up, speaking their minds and taking to the streets in protest
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Interview with Ali Granmayeh about Iran and the ''Arabellions''
Yearning for Lost Freedoms
In 2009, well before the Arab Spring began, Iranians rose up against their regime in what became known as the Green Revolution. Their uprising failed. So how do they and the Iranian regime feel about the wave of uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year? Mona Sarkis met Ali Granmayeh, a former Iranian diplomat, to find out
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Interview with Nader Hashemi
''The War of Ideas in Iran Is Over''
The ideological support for the Iranian regime is waning – liberal and democratic ideas have triumphed within civil society, says political scientist Nader Hashemi in this interview with Lewis Gropp