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Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin is a researcher of the American Enterprise Institute, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an expert with the Cabinet of Public Relations Benador Associates. He was the advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and advisor to Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq and Iran at the Pentagon.

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“Iran means what It says”

by Michael Rubin

15 January 2006

Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitic statements caused discontent in Europe – and this is shocking since such statements are not new. Four years ago, President Rafsanjani had made a similar remark during a Friday’s sermon. His speech should have persuaded then anybody to believe that the Islamist (...)

“To Islamists, one man, one vote, one time, means dictatorship”

by Michael Rubin

20 June 2005

George W. Bush has placed democracy in the focus of his policy in the Middle East, a policy that has triggered the opposition from adversaries like Bachar El Assad, and pro-North Americans dictators like Hosni Mubarak. Bush might boast about the victory in the elections of Iraq and Palestine, (...)