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Iran: the Nuclear Dog that can’t Bark

From On January 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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By David Isenberg

Apart from death and taxes, one other thing has also appeared inevitable, at least for the past two decades: Iran will acquire a nuclear weapons capability.

Yet, despite all the near frantic demands for sanctions, clandestine action, sabotage, and outright military strikes to prevent Iran’s presumed inexorable march [...]

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Gary Sick on Iran’s Foreign Policy

From On December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Gary Sick, who served as an Iran specialist on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan, speaks to Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose about an article that he wrote for the magazine in 1987, which still holds up today.

Also don’t miss Dr. [...]

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Ledeen Begins his Pivot

From On October 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Michael Ledeen, a neoconservative polemicist and long-time Iran hawk who joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies after leaving the American Enterprise Institute in 2008, is being honest when he reminds us here that he has opposed direct US military intervention in Iran. For Ledeen, Iranian-regime change is more attainable if [...]

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View of the earth from the moon

From On October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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In the 1970s Edgar Dean Mitchell, a retired US Navy Captain and the sixth person to walk on the moon, summarized international politics while describing his experience of seeing the earth from the moon:

It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you [...]

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50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis Offers Lessons for Iran

From On October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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It was exactly 50 years ago when then-President John F. Kennedy took to the airwaves to inform the world that the Soviet Union was introducing nuclear-armed missiles into Cuba and that he had ordered a blockade of the island – and would consider stronger action – to force their removal.

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Finally an Opportunity for a Real Campaign Conversation on Iran

From On October 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Sunday’s New York Times story that the US and Iran have agreed in principle to direct bilateral negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program provides opportunity for a more honest conversation on Iran than the presidential candidates have had so far. Well, at least this is my hope.

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Ex-UN Special Commission on Iraq Chairman: “Don’t Go Baghdad on Tehran”

From On October 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Rolf Ekéus, who was executive chairman for the UN Special Commission on Iraq between 1991 and 1997, writes with Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, a nuclear expert at Standford University, on the parallels between the run-up to the Iraq War and the present state of negotiations between Tehran and the international community.

Rolf and Braut-Heggehammer place the onus [...]

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Matthew Kroenig and Trita Parsi Debate: Should the US Strike Iran?

From On October 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Back in January, academic Matthew Kroenig claimed the United States could militarily strike Iran without causing havoc and catastrophe in the region. His arguments were widely criticized and supported by the usual suspects. Jamie Fly, the neoconservative executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative, disagreed with Kroenig, but only because [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On September 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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News and views relevant to US Foreign policy for Sept. 14

“Moments of Truth in Libya and Egypt”: Marc Lynch, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discusses the significance of the protests in Egypt and Libya for US relations. Although the events in Libya – [...]

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Hawks on Iran

From On August 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Lobe Log publishes Hawks on Iran every Friday. Our posts highlight militaristic commentary and confrontational policy recommendations about Iran from a variety of sources including news articles, think tanks and pundits.

Michael Ledeen, Foreign Affairs: The neoconservative pundit has been arguing for years that the US should foment regime change [...]

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