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By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on August 8th, 2010
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President Obama unexpectedly held a hush-hush briefing about Iran last week.

 According to the Washington Post:

 A small group of journalists was invited to a "background session" on Iran policy with "senior National Security Staff." The briefer turned out to be Obama. 

It's hard to tell whether his appearance was for appearance's sake, or whether there was some a good reason b

By Clayton Swisher in Americas, Middle East on April 25th, 2010
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From my Doha perch it's easy to avoid the whole "dual loyalty" debate currently raging in Washington.  That does not mean that as a reporter I have shied away from raising it where appropriate. 
 
But in case anyone missed it, there has been a growing argument in recent weeks among Washington policy wonks over this very issue, with scathing editorial salvos fired between the formidable Harvard Professor Stephen Walt and the pro-Israel Washington Institute's equally outspoken Robert Satloff. 
 
By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on January 7th, 2010

From Stephen Walt at ForeignPolicy:

Tongue firmly in cheek, Notre Dame political scientist Michael Desch offers this Swiftian solution to the threat of another underpants bomber:

By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on November 21st, 2009
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Hamid Karzai has promised that government officials in Afghanistan will henceforth be compelled to declare and register their assets, a strategy apparently insisted upon by Hillary Clinton.

But in a world where even top UN officials are able to profit to the tune of tens of millions of dollars through activities that many are calling a conflict of interest, Harvard Professor Stephen Walt ponders whether the principle of transparency shouldn't be more broadly applied, including in western nations.

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