FDI Weekly Newswire

A weekly update of news from Iranian sources, financed in part with a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy. FDI's network of professional journalists and staff sift through hard-to-access sources including the Farsi-language press, Radio Tehran, and radio stations broadcasting into Iran in Farsi (BBC, VOA, Kol Israel). Other unusual sources include Radio Sedaye Iran (24 hour radio in Los Angeles), The Iran Brief, a monthly investigative newsletter by one of America's premier Middle East specialists, as well as official publications and news releases.

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Last Issue:
Issue 50 - June 30, 1997

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News about FDI

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Features & Op-Eds

• "No time to play nice with Iran," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Washington Times, June 22, 1998.
• FDI Director Kenneth R. Timmerman writes on the Mujahedin's ties to Saddam Hussein in The Washington Times, May 22, 1998
• Iran's Sparring Ayatollahs. Wall Street Journa Op-ed page, Dec. 9, 1997, by Kenneth R. Timmerman.
• "Writer's Fate Tests Iran and Europe," Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), July 23, 1997, by Kenneth R.Timmerman
• "Iran's Vote: A Good Start, Nothing More," Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), May 27, 1997, by Kenneth R. Timmerman
• "Islamic Republic of Iran Interest Section in Washington, DC, The Iran Brief, May 5, 1997
• "Regime intelligence agents in France unmasked", The Iran Brief, Serial 3112, February 5, 1997
• "How to Respond to the Dhahran Bombing", Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), January 3, 1997, by Kenneth R.Timmerman
• "Why Ease Up on Iran?", Washington Post (page A25), December 11, 1996, by Peter W. Rodman
• "Denmark Takes the Lead on Iran", Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), November 27, 1996, by Kenneth R.Timmerman
• "Dealing With Iran", Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), August 29, 1996, by Peter W. Rodman
• "Europe should join the fight against terrorism", Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), August 8, 1996, by Kenneth R.Timmerman
• "Time to End 'Critical Dialogue' with Iran", Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), June 10, 1996, by Kenneth R.Timmerman
• Carl Gershman's presentation at the colloquium at the French Senate, "The Political Foundations in the Western Democracies: What Role and What Future?" June 6, 1996
• "Support Democracy and Change in Iran" presented by Kenneth R.Timmerman at the Dallas Conference on Iran
• "Turkey's Secular Model", Wall Street Journal-Europe (op-ed page), April 24, 1996, by Kenneth R.Timmerman
• "Islamic Iran's American Base", The American Spectator, December, 1995, by Kenneth R.Timmerman