Amidst the rising tensions in Persian Gulf between Iranian and the US following the shooting down of American drone, many politicians and advocates against possible US military response against Islamic Republic have started voicing their Iraqi war parallels. The idea that Iraq could not be..…

President Jimmy Carter tried to engage dialogue, and in 1977 he permitted diplomatic exchanges, and there was no support Establishment Washington for rapprochement, and in 1992 President George HW Bush imposed Cuban Democracy Act. Bolton did not identify these nations except noted that Cuban..…

Historical memory is short and the U.S. quickly forgets the abandonment and derailing of democracy in the 1950s with the installation of the shah against the will of the Iranian people; the support of Iraq and Saddam Hussein against Iran in the 1980s; the downing of the Iranian civilian..…