Op-Eds

"A Note of Warning and Encouragement for Egyptians", The New Republic, January 30, 2011

"The Shah's Atomic Dreams", Foreign Policy, December 29, 2010

"The Good Ayatollah", Foreign Policy, March/April 2010

"Green Energy", The New Republic, February 2, 2010

"The State of the Opposition is Strong", The New Republic, January 8, 2010

"The Tipping Point in Iran", Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2009

"Mourning Montazeri", The New Republic, December 21, 2009

"The Great Satan Myth", The New Republic, December 8, 2009

"With Them or With Us", The New Republic, November 5, 2009

"Exclusive: A Green Ayatollah's Fatwa Against Nukes", The New Republic, October 20, 2009

"Opposite Directions", The New Republic, October 3, 2009

"Diplomatic Circles", The New Republic, September 26, 2009

"An Evening in Support of the Bahais of Iran", The New Republic, August 17, 2009

"The Indictment: My bizarre role in the Iranian show trial", The New Republic, August 10, 2009

"Internal Combustion", The New Republic, August 3, 2009

"Neda Agha-Sultan and Iran’s Opposition", The New Republic, July 21, 2009

"Rafsanjani's Day of Reckoning", The New Republic, July 16, 2009

"Ahmadinejad II", The New Republic, July 15, 2009

"The New Democracts", The New Republic, July 15, 2009

"Let's Hear the Democracies", The New York Times, July 6, 2009

"Tryanny Losses in Iran", Forbes.com, July 1, 2009

"Beating Bad Karma", Boston Review, July/August 2009

"Clerical Error", The New Republic, June 17, 2009

"Iran: A Coup in Three Steps", Forbes.com, June 15, 2009

"Common Cause", Boston Review, January/February 2009

"Persian Politicking", Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #10, Fall 2008

"A Third Way", Boston Review, May/June 2007

"What Scare's the Mullahs", The New York Times, February 23, 2007

"The Miracle of the New Millennium", Vanguardia , July-September 2007

"Russia and Iran: An Anti-Western Alliance", Current History , October 2007

"Pious Populist", Boston Review, November/December 2007

"The Right Way to Engage Iran", The Washington Post , December 29, 2007

"Iran's Weakened Hard-Liners Crave a U.S. Attack", The Christian Science Monitor, February 6, 2007

"How Experts View A Strike Against Iran", San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2006

"Iran President Missing Badly. Ahmadinejad's crisis deepens as he endangers the petro-loot", San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2006

"Inside Iran's Fractured Regime", The Washington Post, June 25, 2006

"A Checking Account for Democracy", Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2006- subscription required

"Revealing Errors. Iran, Jews and the Holocaust: An answer to Mr. Black", Iranian.com, February 23, 2006

"Iran, Jews and the Holocaust: The beneficent legacy of Persia remembered", San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2006

"To Tame Tehran", The Washington Post, January 28, 2006

"For Jews there have always been two Irans", International Herald Tribune, November 10, 2005

"Regime Change", Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2005

"The Silver Lining in Iran", The New York Times, June 30, 2005

"Cracks in the Land of the Ayatollahs", International Herald Tribune, June 17, 2005

"How the U.S Should Take On Iran", San Jose Mercury News, November 28, 2004 - fee to view

"Aftermath of the Bam Earthquake: U.S. - Iranian Relations at a Crossroads", San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, 2004