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A New Approach To Tehran | The National Interest Online

February 29, 2012

Flynt Leverett, former Middle East director for the National Security Council, compared it to the diplomatic communications between Beijing and the Washington that paved the way for the opening of relations with China during the Nixon administration.

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Could U.S. Accept Iran Having Some Nuclear Technology? | PBS NewsHour

February 17, 2012

Ray Suarez discusses the possibility of talks with the Council on Foreign Relations' Ray Takeyh and Flynt Leverett of RaceforIran.com. JUDY WOODRUFF: And to Iran's new willingness to resume negotiations with the West. RAY SUAREZ: Negotiations over ...

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Agenda-Driven Reviews| Boston Review

February 3, 2012

Editor's Note: The following is a response to The Soft Side of Regime Change by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. A sensible, balanced discussion on Iran is difficult to come by these days. The level of hysteria within the Beltway is so high, ...

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Bashar Al-Assad: President Defined By Violence | Local 10

January 31, 2012

He didn't seem to have the personality for the job; he wasn't deeply involved in military or government matters, according to "Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire," a biography by Flynt Leverett, who worked as an expert on Syria for the CIA in the ...

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Stephen Elsberry: Time for a Pragmatic Approach on Iran | CT Post

December 29, 2011

That policy, as former National Security Council staffers Flynt Leverett and his wife, Hillary Mann, describe, is one where "Israeli elites want to preserve a regional balance of power strongly tilted in Israel's favor and what an Israeli general ...

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Will Asma Al-Assad Take a Stand or Stand By Her Man? | CNN

December 25, 2011

He didn't seem to have the personality for the job; he wasn't deeply involved in military or government matters, according to "Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire," a biography by Flynt Leverett, who worked as an expert on Syria for the CIA in the ...

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Drone Aside, What Else U.S. Lost To Iran | Press TV

December 19, 2011

... 4 while in violation of Iran's air sovereignty “highlights a deeper reality,” than a mere signification of the escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote on the Race for Iran website. ...

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Syria's Brave But Divided Opposition Will Have To Take Down Assad on their Own | The Guardian (London)

December 11, 2011

Yet, as Flynt Leverett, a former Middle East analyst for the US National Security Council and the CIA, has observed: "It is far from clear that the Assad government is actually imploding ... Moreover, no one has identified a plausible scenario by which ...

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The Assads: An Iron-Fisted Dynasty | Al Jazeera

December 8, 2011

This "allowed Bashar to be seen as someone on the right side of a true 'hot button' issue for most ordinary Syrians," writes Flynt Leverett in his book, Inheriting Syria - Bashar's Trial by Fire. The Syrian constitution had to be amended to allow ...

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Guest Opinion: War with Iran Would Be Madness | Taunton Daily Gazette

November 27, 2011

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, two Middle East authorities on President George W. Bush's National Security Council, wrote: The report … does not in any way demonstrate that Iran is “developing a nuclear weapon.” Rather, it once again affirms ...

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