Slater Bakhtavar's Past Articles

6 articles

The Road to Freedom in Tehran (the Rise of pro-Americanism in Iran)

published: February 05, 2014

While the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with many Arab regimes espouses a doctrine of anti-Americanism the Iranian people have become profoundly pro-American in recent years. The officials of Ir...

Obama Administration must support the people of Syria and Iran

published: June 07, 2011

Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, sees the Islamic Republic of Iran as its closest ally in the region. While Al-Assad has pledged to help find a peaceful solution to the nuclear dispute betwe...

Support Iran’s pro-Democracy Movement

published: April 26, 2010

Subsequent to the June 9 elections tarred by fraud, a poorly-known organization further increased its power in Iran. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini created the Islamic Revolutionary Gu...

Carter Administration's Dilemma: Iran's Theocracy

published: May 27, 2009

"I did not know it then - perhaps I did not want to know - but it is clear to me now that the Americans wanted me out. Clearly this is what the human rights advocates in the State Department w...

Resignation Superman

published: February 11, 2009

Those who overlook the lessons of history are likely to repeat the mistakes of the past. President Barack Obama seems to be treading the same path on Iran that former President Jimmy Carter was o...

Obama's Jimmy Carter Disaster

published: July 04, 2008

During the 1970's, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had acceded to the monarchist governmental leadership role present throughout Iran's history, implemented economic, educational and social reforms...