Iran Review has conducted an exclusive interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, a renowned American economist, political commentator and the former Assistant Secretary of Treasury in the Ronald Reagan administration. Known as the father of Reagonomics, he is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Scripps Howard News Service. Dr. Roberts is an outspoken critic of what President Bush put forward as the War on Terror. He is an opponent of the U.S. military interventions in the other countries in the name of battling terrorism, and has voiced his criticism of the Bush and Obama administrations on various occasions.

The following is the text of Iran Review’s interview with Prof. Paul Atwood to whom we have discussed issues such as the prospects of capitalism and liberalism, the compasses of the U.S. Empire, the survival of imperialism, the American lifestyle and cultural life, among other issues.

The general conditions in the Middle East region and in relation to Iran are characterized by sanctions, pressure, and negotiations and this combination cannot be possibly called good use of diplomacy. It is, on the contrary, part of a prolonged war of attrition. 

Based on the nuclear safeguard – an agreement signed with countries for enforcement of the NPT – the IAEA can only visit regions where nuclear activities are done. It means that the IAEA’s responsibility is to supervise the nuclear activities of countries and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. On the issue of Parchin, it must be said that this site was twice visited by IAEA inspectors in 2005 and the IAEA has officially announced that no nuclear activity was observed in this site. 

Prof. John D. Wilkerson took part in an exclusive interview with Iran Review and responded to our questions about the global hegemony of the United States, the military expeditions of the United States and the way the American public reacts to these wars, the prospects of the U.S. economy and the international perceptions of the American lifestyle. What follows is the text of the interview.

Here is the text of our interview with Prof. Giulio M. Gallarotti of the Wesleyan University about the transformation of world’s political order, power balance against the United States, the possibility of the decline of capitalism, domestic opposition to the U.S. foreign policy and other factors contributing to the changing of the political equations of the United States.

In order to investigate the challenges the United States faces today, we conducted an interview with Prof. Peter Rutland, political scientist and Professor of Government at the Wesleyan University’s Government Department. What follows is the text of Iran Review’s interview with Prof. Rutland with whom we have discussed a number of issues pertaining to the political, military, social and cultural hegemony of the United States.

What follows is the text of Iran Review’s interview with Prof. John M. Owen to whom we have talked about the future of U.S. Empire, the impact of the U.S. military expeditions on its public image of the especially in the Muslim world, and the socio-cultural dominance and hegemony of the United States as the world’s number one economic power. 

What follows is the text of Iran Review’s interview with Prof. Deepa Kumar to whom we have talked about the economic, political and social indications of the decline of the U.S. Empire and its underlying reasons.

The United States Congress has recently passed a new law which calls for the US Department of State to offer its plan to develop a strategy within 180 days to “address Iran’s growing hostile presence and activity” in Latin America, Canada, and the Central America. The law has also appropriated a total of one million dollars to the Department of State to report on Iran's diplomatic and economic activities in Latin America, make sure that there will be no disruption in the US and global energy flow, and offer proposals for counteracting the assistance provided to Iran by a number of regional countries to bypass international sanctions.