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Michael Rubin, a specialist on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, has served as editor of the Middle East Quarterly since 2004. Rubin was political adviser for the Coalition Provisional Authority (Baghdad), 2003-2004, following two years (2002-2004) as staff assistant on Iran and Iraq in the Office of Special Plans in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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Is Iran Vulnerable to Gasoline Sanctions? -- By: Michael Rubin

Whether or not gasoline sanctions would be an effective means of coercion, as the Obama administration seeks to bring Iran into compliance with its nuclear obligations, remains a key question before U.S. policymakers. Often, the positions of ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

New York Times Responds -- By: Michael Rubin

Regarding my post about Artin Afkhami's simultaneous employment at an Iran advocacy organization and as an Iran researcher at the New York Times, Diane McNulty, executive director, community affairs and media relations at the New York Times, e-mails me: ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

On Useful Idiocy (or Head, Meet Sand) -- By: Michael Rubin

The Alavi Foundation has been providing numerous services to the Iranian Government, including managing the Building for the Iranian Government, running a charitable organization for the Iranian Government, and transferring funds from 650 Fifth Avenue ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alavi Foundation

Let the Revisionism Begin -- By: Michael Rubin

Eli Lake broke a story today showing that the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) appears to have acted as a lobbyist for the Islamic Republic, in violation of its tax status and likely also in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Its ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

NYT 1, NYRB 0 -- By: Michael Rubin

The New York Times has run an editor's note regarding Peter Galbraith's non-disclosure of his financial interests when it published several of his op-eds. Good for them.  It is a pity, however, that the New York Review of Books has not issued any notes ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Peter Galbraith

Eikenberry on Afghanistan -- By: Michael Rubin

Washington-based journalists love reporting on dissension within any administration; leaks are their bread-and-butter. But that doesn't excuse dereliction of journalistic duties. What journalists frame as a numbers game is, in reality, a debate about ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban

Iraq's Most Dangerous Profession? -- By: Michael Rubin

Unexploded ordinance disposal? Police-station security guards? Alcohol salesman in Najaf? All are dangerous, but increasingly it seems being a journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan tops the list. Rather than fight the corruption, nepotism, and abuse of power ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jalal Talabani,  Saddam Hussein,  Barham Salih,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

Duke Refuses to Replicate Yale's Censorship -- By: Michael Rubin

The Yale administration had interceded with the press to force the censorship. To support its censorship, Yale consulted with such luminaries as former Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and columnist Fareed Zakaria, both of whom supported ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Negroponte,  Fareed Zakaria,  PBS,  Yale University

Attorney General to Speak to CAIR -- By: Michael Rubin

According to Politico, Attorney General Holder is going to speak to CAIR.  CAIR's links to terrorism and radical Islamism are detailed here. (At least Ramsey Clarke waited until he was out of office to bestow prestige upon such radical groups). ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  10 Nov 2009

Gary Sick on Iran's Negotiating -- By: Michael Rubin

Former Carter aide Gary Sick, who has never failed to find hope and sincerity in any Iranian government (*), said on National Public Radio on October 18, "Now, if they renege on this, if they back away from it, then we find out what they really mean to ...

From MICHAEL RUBIN, The Corner,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NPR

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