Валид Фарес - Революция грядет - борьба за свободу на Ближнем Востоке

20В числе ученых, регулярно и изощренно выступающих с просирийских позиций и подчеркивающих необходимость поддержания отношений с Асадом, – профессор Джошуа Лэндис, директор Центра изучения Среднего Востока и доцент университета штата Оклахома. Женатый на дочери сирийского генерала, профессор Лэндис интенсивно ведет блог Syria Comments, в котором поддерживает режим Асада.

21См.: Iraq and Syria Recall Envoy in Bomb Suspects Row, Reuters, August 25, 2009. См. также Martin Chulov, Baghdad Car Bombs Blamed on Syria and Islamists by Iraqi Government, Guardian , December 9, 2009.

22Из брифинга, сделанного для Антитеррористической группы палаты представителей конгресса США 15 июля 2009 г.

23См., например: Joshua Landis, Is Syria Ready for Democracy? Syria Comments , March 15, 2009.

24Ежегодная конференция Флоридского общества изучения Среднего Востока. Конференция состоялась во Флоридском атлантическом университете.

25Взято с сайта Хайтама Манны.

1Подробно об истории Персии см.: Molesworth Sykes, A History of Persia , Hesperides Press, (November 4, 2008); см. также: Lindsay Allen, The Persian Empire , University of Chicago Press, December 20, 2005. О завоевании Персии Халифатом см. Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History , Yale University Press.

2О социологическом и экономическом анализе в период новой истории Ирана см.: Ervand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran , Cambridge University Press, July 28, 2008; рекомендуемая работа по геополитической истории современного Ирана в период хомейнистской революции Amir Taheri, The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution , Encounter Books, March 25, 2009.

3Hamid Dabashi, Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution in Iran , New York University Press, 1993.

4Я проанализировал эту доктрину в ряде статей, опубликованных в ежедневной газете Al Ahrar в Бейруте в течение 1980 г., особенно в статье под названием «Thawra Takhattat hudud biladaha» («A Revolution Heading beyond Its Borders»), Al Ahrar , May 1980.

5Об ирано-иракской войне см., например: Ervand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran , Cambridge, 2008; см. также: Efraim Karsh, The Iran-Iraq War, 1980–1988 , Osprey Publishing, 2002.

6См., например: Kerim Yildizand Tanyel B. Taysi, The Kurds in Iran: The Past, Present and Future , Pluto Press, 2007.

7О борьбе арабов провинции Хузестан см., например: Peter Tatchell, Iran’s Anti-Arab Racism: Iran Treats Its Arab Minority as Second-Class Citizens. Now It Is Planning to Hang Six of Them after Rigged Trials Held in Secret, Guardian , Friday, October 26, 2007; Iran: Defending Minority Rights: The Ahwazi Arabs, report by Amnesty International, May 16, 2006; and Daniel Brett, Iran’s Forgotten Ethnocide, in Arab Media Watch , изначально опубликована в The Arab , March 2008.

8См.: R. Farzanfar, Ethnic Groups and the State: Azaris, Kurds and Baluch of Iran , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. См. также Selig S. Harrison, Pakistan’s Baluch Insurgency, Baloch Voice , July 3, 2009; Malek Towghi, Ethnic Cleansing in Iranian Baluchistan, Baloch Human Rights International ; BalochOnline, August 30, 2009.

9См.: Salman J. Borhani, The Azeris of Modern Iran, The Iranian , August 4, 2003; Brenda Shaffer, Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity , MIT Press, 2002.

10См., например: Farideh Tehrani, The Truth Inside, National Review , October 15, 2002.

11Jihad against Love: Valentine’s Day Invades the Middle East, Front Page Magazine , February 14, 2005.

12См.: Elaine Sciolino, Student Unrest in Iran, New York Times , July 13, 1999, см. также Iran Student Protests: Five Years On, BBC, July 9, 2004; Neil MacFarquhar, Iran Latest Protests Are Seen as the Toughest to Stop, New York Times , June 16, 2009.

13См.: Student Demonstrations in Iran, Voice of America , December 19, 2002. См. также Nazila Fathi, 4th Day of Protests in Tehran, and Demonstrations Spread, New York Times , November 12, 2002; Margaret Warner, Student unrest in Iran, в Jim Lehrer News Hour , PBS, June 18, 2003.

14Borzou Daragahi, Iranian Exile Speaks Out against Militia He Once Supported, Los Angeles Times , July 9, 2009.

15Amir Fakhravar, Call it What It Is: Iran’s Revolution, Daily News (New York), January 3, 2010.

16См., например: Workers Rights, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran , January 2006.

17Marvin Kalb, Report on Hezbollah and Western Media, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, 2007.

18По этой теме я написал статью, см.: Walid Phares, A Mid East American Revolution Is Coming, Front Page Magazine , October 1, 2004.

19См.: Ledeen Calls for a Speedy Democratic Revolution in Iran, hoder.com weblog, July 11, 2002.

20См., например: Michael Ledeen, Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away , AEI Press, October 1996.

21См.: Meir Javedanfar and Yossi Melman, The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran , Basic Books, 2007.

22Martin Walker, A Democratic Revolution in the Middle East? The Globalist, March 29, 2005.

23Iran Arrests Student Editor over Insulting Islam, AFP, May 5, 2007.

24Saul Gonzales, Beaming Back, PBS NewsHour , June 19, 2003. См. также: Juliette Niehuss, Why Washington Needs Iranian Students, Asia Times , July 23, 2003.

25Ledeen, Freedom Betrayed .

26Eli Lake, Iran Advocacy Group Said to Skirt Lobby Rules The Washington Times , November 13, 2009.

27См. Jacki Lyden, Iranian Women Activists Gain Momentum, interview with Farida Davoodi Mohajer on All Things Considered , NPR, March 17, 2007.

28 Results of Survey in 28 Centers of Iranian Provinces: Iranians’ Values and Attitudes , Tehran: Ministry of Islamic Guidance, 2004, pp. 78, 84.

29Mohammad Maljoo, Worker Protest in the Age of Ahmadinejad, MERIP 241, Winter 2006.

30For Workers Revolution against the Islamic Dictatorship: No to All Wings of the Mullah Regime, Internationalist , June 2009.

31Amir Taheri, Repression and Resistance: Urban Workers, Women, Students, Teachers, and Ethnic Minorities against the Regime, National Review , June 16, 2009.

32Walid Fares Iran – The Uprising Is On and There’s No Turning Back, FoxNews.com, June 20, 2009.