Abbas Maleki

2007

Iran

Book Chapter

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program

Iran has not acted as a dragon breathing ideological fire across the region, but rather as a traditional entrepreneur and reliable trader.

Summer 2006

"Iran: Appearances Can Be Deceiving"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement that his country has completed a uranium enrichment cycle was met with great fanfare in the country, and much worry around the world.

May 14, 2006

Jack Straw and Understanding Iran

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Shargh, (East)

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program

October 10-12, 2005

"Extremism in Islamic Shi'ite's Faith"

Presentation

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program

September 26, 2007

"How to Build US-Iran Relations"

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program and Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

"...Iran has not suspended its uranium enrichment program, but it has not ignored the UN Security Council resolutions on Iran either, as can be discerned in the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency citing "significant progress" in Iran-IAEA cooperation. With the United States and Iran talking in Iraq and Iran-IAEA cooperation yielding concrete results in terms of Iran's nuclear transparency, the stage is potentially set for de-escalating the US-Iran tensions, particularly if both sides adopt a long-term view and sort out the security dimension."

September 21, 2007

"U.S., Iran Need to Build Confidence"

Op-Ed, San Francisco Chronicle

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program and Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

"...the stage is set for a thaw in U.S.-Iran relations. With sufficient political will on both sides, Washington and Tehran can achieve this by adopting concrete confidence-building measures and by imposing a mutually agreed-upon moratorium on demonizing each other."

October 8, 2012

"Iran, US, and the MEK"

Op-Ed, Iran Review

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program and Cyrus Safdari

"The irony of the decision to strip the MKO of its terrorist designation should be apparent when one considers the fact that since 1875, only a small number of Americans have been killed in Iran and of those, all but one were assassinated by the same MKO....No American has been killed in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution."

AP Photo

August 20, 2012

"Why West Should Curb Hostility To Non-Aligned Summit in Tehran"

Op-Ed, Al-Monitor

By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program and Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

"...[T]he various implications of the NAM summit and Iran's NAM presidency — for regional stability, conflict mediation and a greater Iranian role as a responsible international actor, among others — need to be taken into consideration in the West, as part and parcel of a more prudent and nuanced Western approach toward Iran, instead of one that is dependent on coercive diplomacy."

AP Photo

June 11, 2012

"Iran Nuclear Talks: What to Do in Moscow"

Op-Ed, The Huffington Post

By John Tirman and Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program

"...[S]hould the negotiations fail, a war with Iran would be catastrophic. The United States has not only been down that road with Iraq, but now is a fragile moment in many Arab countries, in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well, where a war against Iran could produce enormous repercussions — boosting the prospects of the most militant factions — which last for a generation or more. A war would also spike oil prices to all-time highs and demolish hopes for economic recovery here, Europe, Japan, and indeed everywhere else."

Mark Wilson/Getty

May 21, 2012

"How To Avoid a War with Iran"

Op-Ed, Foreign Policy

By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom and Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program

Observers would be forgiven for dismissing negotiations over Iran's nuclear program as Kabuki theater. Despite years of on-again, off-again efforts, after all, fears of war continue to simmer. Such frustrations are understandable -- but they may not be entirely justified.