Op-Eds

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

"What Scare's the Mullahs", 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", coauthored with Michael McFaul, Washington Post , December 29, 2007

"Iran's Weakened Hard-Liners Crave a U.S. Attack", 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", 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", Herald Tribune, November 10, 2005

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

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

"Cracks in the Land of the Ayatollahs", 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