Nov. 2, 2004 22:51 | Updated Nov. 3, 2004 16:52 By NIR BOMS AND REZA BULORCHI While the world is busy contemplating the appropriate response to the looming Iranian nuclear threat - be it a European grand bargain, a covert operation, or a sophisticated military assault - life in Teheran appears...
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi If doubts remained as to the extent that last month's rigged Iranian elections were boycotted by Iranian citizens, they were put to rest Tuesday, March 16. That evening, on a walk through Tehran's residential neighborhoods, one could see just how loathed...
January 28, 2004 By Reza Bulorchi and Nir Boms Defying conventional wisdom, fresh voices of freedom appear to be coming from the Middle East as of late. Assad of Syria delivers his plans for democratization directly to the New York Times. Khaddafi of Libya delivers his to Newsweek, as he...
NIR BOMS and REZA BULORCHI, July 27, 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's "elected" president, will officially assume his post next month. The elections, no doubt, were a sham and the controversy about voting irregularities is far from settled. Iran's opposition sources revealed that the national ID cards of about five million...
Khatami's doublespeak and a hot potato. December 30, 2003 By Nir Boms "What I say does not definitely reflect what I think. What I do does not necessary reflect what I say. Therefore, not everything that I do necessary contradicts everything that I think." This explanation of "Middle Eastern Logic"...