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Book Review: “Original Sins” Fuelled U.S.-Iran Enmity

From On November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Gary Sick

via IPS News

NEW YORK, Nov 26 2012 (IPS) - I have never read a book quite like this. “Becoming Enemies” is the latest product of the indispensable National Security Archive, the Washington non-profit that has given new meaning to the Freedom of Information Act.

They not only use their [...]

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What is Iran up to these days?

From On October 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

Laura Rozen has an exclusive on alleged Iranian attempts to establish back-channel contacts with non-official Americans ahead of the (hopefully) resumed nuclear negotiations:

Mostafa Dolatyar, a career Iranian diplomat who heads the Iranian think tank, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), which has close ties to Iran’s [...]

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Barbara Slavin Finds Skepticism

From On October 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The Atlantic Council’s resident Iran specialist and regular IPS contributor Barbara Slavin has an excellent piece today on the skepticism on the part of Iran specialists and intelligence veterans surrounding the Justice Department’s version of the alleged Iran assassination plot. You can read the whole story here, but here’s are a couple of excerpts:

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Bruce Riedel on the alleged threat posed by Iran to Israel and the U.S.

From On October 1, 2011 · 9 Comments

We hear it practically everyday, for one reason or another, Iran is a threat that needs to be countered. Nowhere does this kind of rhetoric thrive more clearly or consistently than among Israel advocates who operate as political analysts.

In a 2010 article that compares the present to the years leading up to WWII, [...]

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Negotiations With Iran Must "Put Everything on the Table"

From On October 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

MJ Rosenberg voices a well thought out response to Bruce Riedel’s suggestion that deterring a disastrous Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities is best accomplished by: forcing Israel to bring its nuclear stockpile out of the closet; extending the U.S. nuclear umbrella over Israel; bolstering Israel’s second strike capabilities; and giving it entrance [...]

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What a U.S. Deterrence Strategy Towards Iran Might Entail

From On September 28, 2010 · 4 Comments

Tom Ricks has posted an excellent piece by Zachary Hosford, Best Defense nuclear warfare correspondent, on his Foreign Policy blog.  Hosford’s critique of Bruce Riedel’s National Interest article, “If Israel Attacks,” addresses key questions on what it might take for the U.S. to persuade Israel, through enhanced military aid and security guarantees, to [...]

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