Ladan Archin
Ladan Archin, an Iranian-American protégé of Paul Wolfowitz from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and veteran of the discredited Office of Special Plans which manufactured the propaganda for the Iraq war, heads the Iranian Directorate, a unit set up at the Pentagon to bring about regime change in Iran. She is the Country Director in the Near East and South Asia Department of the Department of Defense responsible for Iran. She also served a brief stint in the Office of the Vice President.
She previously served with the International Financial Corporation of the World Bank. [1]
Target Iran
According to the McClatchy Newspapers, Archin coauthored a paper for the Iranian Directorate that urged the Bush administration to take a more confrontational stance towards Iran. She also made an attempt with David Denehy, head of the Office of Iranian Affairs, to start commercial satellite TV broadcasts into Iran run by members of California's large Iranian-American, mostly monarchist, community. Previously she worked closely with Larry Franklin the neocon Iran analyst convicted on charges of spying for Israel. [2]
Affiliations
- Office of Special Plans
- Ladan Archin is reportedly the head of the Iranian Directorate [3]
- Senior Manager Grant Thornton May 2008 — Present (11 months) 'Currently leading efforts to open Grant Thornton's office in Dubai, UAE, where I'll be relocating to in July, 2008.'
- Assistant Director U.S Department of the Treasury August 2007 — May 2008 (10 months)
- Country Director US Department of Defense October 2002 — July 2007 (4 years 10 months)
- Investment Officer International Finance Corporation July 1995 — January 2001 (5 years 7 months)
- Senior Market Analyst Federal Reserve Bank of New York June 1993 — June 1995 (2 years 1 month)[4]
Education
- The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) MA, International Relations & Economics, 1991 — 1993
- The Johns Hopkins University MA, International Relations & International Economics, 1991 — 1993[5]
Related Articles
- Warren P. Strobel and William Douglas, Pentagon study claims U.S. broadcasts to Iran aren't tough enough, McClatchy Newspapers, 26 September 2006
- Daniel Schulman, Meet the "Whack Iran" Lobby, Mother Jones, 6 October 2006
- Laura Rozen, Cheney's Dead Enders, Washington Monthly, January-February 2007
- Connie Bruck, Exiles: How Iran's Expatriates are Gaming the Nuclear Threat, New Yorker, 6 March 2006
Notes
- ↑ LinkedIn Ladan Archin LinkedIn website, accessed 25 march 2009
- ↑ David Swanson, 'Former Pentagon Staff Speaks Out on Crimes of Doug Feith, Dick Cheney, and Planning of Iran War', Let's Try Democracy website, 4 March, 2007.
- ↑ Khody Akhavi, 'Neo-cons take spin to US-backed airwaves', Asia Times website, 26 June, 2007.
- ↑ LinkedIn Ladan Archin LinkedIn website, accessed 25 march 2009
- ↑ LinkedIn Ladan Archin LinkedIn website, accessed 25 march 2009
