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Listening to Brzezinski talk about Washington’s Iran Options

From On December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Last week I attended an event hosted by the Arms Control Association and the National Iranian American Council on how to make diplomacy work with Iran. I wrote about it here. Keynote speaker Zbigniew Brzezinski was the last to speak and showed up minutes before he took [...]

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Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA Credulity

From On November 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

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That Associated Press story displaying a graph alleged to be part of an Iranian computer simulation of a nuclear explosion — likely leaked by Israel with the intention of reinforcing the media narrative of covert Iranian work on nuclear weapons – raises serious questions about the International Atomic [...]

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Say what? “AP: Diagram suggests Iran working on nuclear bomb”

From On November 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Those unnamed officials “from a country critical of Iran’s nuclear program” are at it again. This week they leaked an illustration to to the Associated Press which supposedly demonstrates that “Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive [...]

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Implications of the November 2012 IAEA Report on Iran

From On November 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Write Kelsey Davenport, Daryl G. Kimball, and Greg Thielmann at Arms Control Now:

Taken together, the IAEA report findings provide further troubling evidence that Iran is continuing to pursue sensitive nuclear fuel-cycle activities in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and is slowly enhancing its nuclear weapons breakout potential.

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Has Israel backed down?

From On November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak’s recent comments indicating that Israel has delayed its attack-Iran timeline by 8-10 months is causing a stir among Iran watchers. From the Daily Telegraph:

Earlier this year, however, Iran delayed the arrival of that moment. Tehran has amassed 189kg of uranium enriched to 20 per cent [...]

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Experts: Progress in Iran Nuclear Talks requires flexibility, creativity

From On October 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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“There is the possibility of progress in the next round [of Iran nuclear talks], but it’s going to require that both sides be more flexible and a little more creative,” says the Arms Control Association’s Daryl Kimball in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations.

“Whatever happens after [...]

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Do Obama and Romney differ on Iran?

From On October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Two must-read analyses of the Iran portion from last night’s final presidential debate are brought to us by TIME’s Tony Karon and the Arms Control Association’s Greg Thielmann. (This TPM headline also sums up the entire debate quite nicely: “Romney’s Final Debate Message: I’ll Be A Better Obama”.)

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Consider the human costs of using the “military option” on Iran’s nuclear facilities

From On October 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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I’ve been meaning to write about this report on the multifold human costs of militarily striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and am happy to find that it’s already been noted by Golnaz Esfandiari as well as Gordon Lubold, among others. (Marsha Cohen’s well-read Lobe Log post on [...]

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Under-reported: Iran’s stockpile of 20 percent-enriched uranium has decreased

From On September 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Arms Control Association’s Greg Thielmann notes that there was a decrease in Iran’s stockpile of 20 percent-enriched uranium, as indicated by the latest International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) report about Iran’s nuclear program, but did you know that? The P5+1 has heavily focused on Iran’s highly-enriched stockpile [...]

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Should Turkey be included in the P5+1?

From On September 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Arms Control Association’s Kelsey Davenport summarizes a case made by a Turkish professor of international relations for Turkey to be included in the p5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany):

Despite the failure of the Tehran Declaration, Turkey’s experience negotiating with Iran [...]

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