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Gary Sick on Iran: Is Agreement Possible?

From On April 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment

by Jasmin Ramsey

Columbia University Professor Gary Sick, who served as an Iran specialist on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan, examines US Persian Gulf Policy in Obama’s Second Term in the next issue of Aspenia, the Aspen Istitute Italia’s highly regarded journal on international affairs. Dr. Sick’s entire article is available on his

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HuffPost Live: Iran Diplomacy is Working

From On March 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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Gary Sick (Columbia University professor who served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan), Joe Cirincione (President of the Ploughshares Fund), Trita Parsi (President of the National Iranian American Council) and Michael Eisenstadt (senior fellow at the Washington Institute) discuss the results of last week’s talks [...]

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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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Gary Sick: Iran Nuclear Deal Requires Proper Political Will

From On December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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From the English language transcript of a VOA interview with Columbia Professor Gary Sick, an acute observer of US-Iranian relations who served on the National Security Council staffs of President Ford, Carter and Reagan:

SD: You’ve presented a deal in which the US agrees to some enrichment [...]

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

From On November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Gary Sick

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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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Iran and the United States: Ready, set, go?

From On November 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Former Iran-desk State Department staffer Reza Marashi and journalist Sahar Namazikhah remind us that Iran’s influnetial Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has publicly recognized the benefits of negotiating with the US to avert a military conflict through a report that’s available on their website. “To that end, the Intelligence Ministry [...]

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Iran Sanctions Leading US Toward Military Conflict

From On November 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has updated its Iran Sanctions page to include more individuals and entities, including Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Ershad), its Press Supervisory Board and several Iranian universities and related institutions. No reasoning is provided in the official US

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Gary Sick on U.S. government leaks ahead of Iran nuclear talks

From On April 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

On Sunday former US national security advisor and Iran expert Dr. Gary Sick wrote the following about U.S. government leaks to news outlets ahead of expected renewed talks between the P5+1 this month. PBS Frontline’s Tehran Bureau included his commnetary in their “Media Watch” yesterday:

“If it’s Sunday,” Columbia University scholar Gary [...]

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Taking a break from the hawks

From On February 10, 2012 · 3 Comments

Editor’s note: This week, in place of our weekly roundup of hawkish commentary about Iran, we’re highlighting two articles regarding the U.S.’s Iran policy that shouldn’t be missed.

While discussing Natasha Bahrami and Trita Parsi’s recent article in the Boston Review (also a must-read), professor of international politics at Tufts University, [...]

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Who’s Afraid of the Ayatollahs?

From On January 4, 2012 · 1 Comment

Reprinted by arrangement with Gary Choices

By Gary Sick

Politicians and pundits are curiously schizophrenic when discussing Iran. On one hand, they are prepared to declare, as Mitt Romney did, that the “greatest threat that Israel faces, and frankly the greatest threat the world faces, is a nuclear Iran.” To deal with [...]

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