Simon Henderson

Director of Gulf and Energy Policy Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

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Director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Middle-East policy think-tank; former journalist with the Financial Times, in Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis

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Iran has released a videotape and three letters purporting to be from Faye Turney, the lone woman among fifteen British captives, apologizing for crossing into Iran's territorial…

Another Growing Crisis in the Middle East

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