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New Optimism Over Iran Talks Tempered by Threat of Incoming Congress

From On January 5, 2015 · Leave a Comment

by Derek Davison The new year may have brought with it some signs of progress toward a comprehensive deal between world powers and Iran, lending credence to one of Graham Fuller’s 2015 predictions for the Middle East. However, any movement toward a nuclear agreement must now contend with a potentially game-changing complication: the desire of a new

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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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Geneive Abdo: It's not Iran in 1979 and The Muslim Brotherhood Isn't in the Driver's Seat

From On February 2, 2011 · 1 Comment

While diverse voices from neoconservative pundits in Washington to Iranian state-run media have been having a field day comparing the pro-democracy protests in Egypt to the ousting of the Shah of Iran in 1979, Geneive Abdo, director of the Iran Program at the National Security Network and The Century Foundation, has a piece up on [...]

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Self-fulfilling prophecy: Dennis Ross Doesn't Think Anything Can Get Accomplished

From On January 19, 2011 · 2 Comments

I was struck by an article by Nathan Guttman in the legendary Jewish Daily Forward about Dennis Ross and George Mitchell jockeying for the position of Obama Administration’s point-person in the Middle East peace process. The whole thing is a fascinating read, but this line really jumped out at me:

Others have [...]

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Ahmadinejad Cans FM, Replaces with Nuke Chief

From On December 13, 2010 · 1 Comment

Does the selection of Iran’s nuclear czar as its new (interim) foreign minister say anything about nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West? We don’t really know, and given that the next round of talks is only a month away, we might not know until news breaks from Istanbul.

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Bread and Nukes: Stuxnet's Collateral Damage?

From On December 11, 2010 · 5 Comments

According to a Fox News exclusive, experts think the Stuxnet virus is still wrecking havoc on Iran’s nuclear program, particularly to the centrifuges.

Yet it’s worth considering that even cyber-warfare — like all kinds of warfare — can produce “collateral damage.” The term is a military euphemism, now widely accepted in the lay lexicon, [...]

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Did Israel Cyber-Attack Iran?

From On November 19, 2010 · 2 Comments

It looks that way — or the Israelis could simply want people to think that. But, whatever the truth, they seem to be coyly admitting to this summer’s massive cyber-attack against Iran.

The New York Times looks back at Stuxnet, the worm that targeted computers in Iran, specifically, those linked to Iran’s centrifuge work [...]

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