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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The threat that Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses to Israel could prompt an attack from the Israelis. _______________________________________________________________________________________ One day after the 11th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, let’s turn our attention to that nation’s neighbor to the west — Iran. Iran is kind of hard to ignore,

An Iranian security directs media at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, with the reactor building seen in the background, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (Associated Press) __________________________________________________________________________________ When protests broke out in Iran this week over the devaluation of the nation’s currency, Khosrow Semnani saw the possible start

A military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would have a devastating effect on those who dream of democracy in Iran, says a new study titled The Ayatollah’s Nuclear Gamble by Khosrow B. Semnani, published by the Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah and Omid for Iran. “The risks to the Iranian people of military

The University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics announces the release of a new policy paper written by Khosrow B. Semnani, The Ayatollah’s Nuclear Gamble: The Human Cost of Military Strikes Against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities, which argues that the humanitarian rights of innocent civilians should forestall any military strike against Iran by Israel and/or the

A successful attack on Iranian nuclear facilities could cause mass civilian casualties and send toxic plumes of chemicals toward allied nations, a recent study found. “It is an ugly picture that needs to be considered, and whoever is thinking about attacking [an] Iranian facility, they need to take this into account,” said Khosrow Semnani, author

The West may not use nuclear weapons on Iran, but attacking its nuclear enrichment facilities will have a similar effect. As you can tell by the title, this 61-page paper, The Ayatollah’s Nuclear Gamble, is not Tehran-friendly. The report, released in September, is the product of Khosrow B. Semnani, an Iranian-American industrialist and philanthropist with,

I’ve been meaning to write about this report on the multifold human costs of militarily striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and am happy to find that it’s already been noted by Golnaz Esfandiari as well as Gordon Lubold, among others. (Marsha Cohen’s well-read Lobe Log post on the same topic was the closest thing to such