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Iran Daily Talking Points

From On January 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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Zbigniew Brzezinski, Iran should be key topic at hearings: The former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter urges the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to include a discussion about the implications of a “self-generated” war with Iran during its upcoming hearing. Key paragraph:

It follows that a failure to reach a satisfactory negotiated solution with Iran [...]

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Will Disgraced Pres. Ahmadinejad Impede Diplomatic Window of Opportunity with Iran?

From On November 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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US-Iran relations expert Trita Parsi explains why diplomatic headway can be made with Iran in the time period after the US presidential election and before the Iranian election in the Daily Beast’s “Open Zion“:

Between November 8, 2012, and mid-March 2013, a unique opportunity exists to make diplomatic headway [...]

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No changes in Iran-US relations expected until after Iranian election

From On November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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This week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton indicated they wanted talks with Iran to resume even as the US’s dual-track policy of pressure and diplomacy (translation: more sanctions) continues:

HIGH REPRESENTATIVE ASHTON: As you know, in New York, I was feeding back to the P-5+1/E-3+3 ministers [...]

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Sanctions without compromise won’t end Iran nuclear impasse

From On October 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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In a new report for the Oxford Research Group (first excerpted at PBS’s Tehran Bureau) author Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi explains why sanctions without compromise won’t change Iran’s hardline leaders’ stance on the nuclear program:

The key dilemma which Western policymakers should consider is that, rightly or wrongly, the [...]

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A Reply to Mark Dubowitz’s call for “Economic Warfare” against Iran

From On July 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Muhammad Sahimi

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In numerous op-eds and in testimonies before congressional audiences Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), has called for “crippling sanctions” against the Islamic Republic and its controversial nuclear program. Only days prior to the official commencement [...]

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