TVO The Agenda, Sept 27 2010: Iran Confronts the Region torrent

TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, September 27 2010: Iran Confronts the Region

The Debate: Iran Confronts the Region

There is a growing fear of Iran in the Middle East. Perhaps nowhere is this fear more palpable than among Sunni Muslims and Israelis. Will this common threat bring these two sides together? And will this foster the larger issue of possible peace in the region?

Guests:

Peter Jones is a Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.

Rashid Khalidi is a Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University.

Saeed Rahnema is a Professor of Political Science, and has served as Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration and Coordinator of the Political Science Program, at York University.

Janice Stein is TVO\'s Foreign Affairs analyst, the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.


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Resources and links to related material

1) The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum, August 4th, 2010 - USrael and Iran

The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum, June 5th, 2009 - The great, international, demonic, truly frightening Iranian threat

2) Glenn Greenwald - The Ahmadinejad game

Glenn Greenwald - Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn\'t gone anywhere

Glenn Greenwald - The \"Bomb Iran\" contingent\'s newfound concern for The Iranian People

3) Read Arthur Silber\'s excellent series of posts on Iran here:
Silber - The Worsening Nightmare[/url]

Links to Arthur Silber\'s various posts on Iran are at the bottom of the above post. In particular, read the following:
into the Iran Trap, I: A Decision of Policy -- and the Intelligence Won\'t Matter[/url]
Iran Gets Nukes. So What?[/url]
for Empire (I)[/url]:

See also,Iran Gets Nukes. So What?,\"[/url] for an analysis of the hideousness of the Clinton administration\'s sanctions policy against Iraq, and how that policy inevitably and necessarily led to the Bush administration\'s criminal invasion of that country in 2003.

For identical reasons, punishing sanctions against Iran now so eagerly sought by the Obama administration will, in time, lead to the same result, if the policy remains unaltered. Yet many liberals and progressives again champion a strong sanctions policy as the desirable, supposedly \"peaceful\" and \"realistic\" alternative to war. But as shown inIran Gets Nukes\"[/url] and other essays here, a sanctions regime is not an alternative to war: it is the prelude to attack or invasion. Moreover, sanctions murder a hideous number of innocent people as surely as more overt acts of war.

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