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IAEA Reliance on Third-Party Data Could Compromise Political Credibility

From On December 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Beginning with a reference to a contentious report by the AP that used an alleged Iranian document provided by an “unnamed country” to suggest “that Iran is working on a bomb,” Mark Hibbs, a senior associate in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program, writes that increasing reliance by the International [...]

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Biden, Ryan spar over Iran policy in debate

From On October 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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In last night’s vice presidential debate moderated by ABC News’s Martha Raddatz, Vice President Joe Biden and GOP nominee Paul Ryan (R-WI) focused extensively on the Iranian nuclear program and the US-Israeli response to it. Ryan sought to portray Obama Administration’s public disagreements with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On September 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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News and views relevant to US foreign policy for Sept. 15

“No Rush to War“: The editorial board of the New York Times highlights the Iran Project report – authored and endorsed by a bipartisan group of high-level national security experts – that we discussed earlier this [...]

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Avihu Ben-Nun on Iran

From On July 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Marsha Cohen, Lobe Log’s resident Israel-Iran relations expert, tells me that while the 11th Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force, Avihu Ben-Nun, is not an important figure in current Israeli foreign policy debates, his viewpoints are reflective of those held by influential people in Israel’s [...]

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WaPo Ombudsman Calls Post Headline Saying Iran Wants Nuke Weapons ‘Misleading’

From On December 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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Last month, ThinkProgress pointed to misleading polling questions in a Quinnipiac University poll. The questions referred to “Iran’s nuclear weapons program” when neither the UN’s nuclear agency nor conseus U.S. intelligence estimates have asserted concretely that Iran has made the decision to [...]

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Danielle Pletka: ‘The Biggest Problem’ For The U.S. Is Iran Not Using Nukes

From On December 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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The hawks on the American Enterprise Institute’s foreign policy team are usually quick to hype the threat of a nuclear Iran and warn anyone who will listen that a nuclear armed Iran would spell doomsday for Israel and regional stability in the Middle East. But

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Joseph Cirincione: IAEA report shows Iran HAS NOT made decision to go nuclear

From On November 9, 2011 · 1 Comment

The hype about the latest IAEA report about Iran’s nuclear program was much more frightening than the actual content. Yesterday, Joseph Cirincione, the president of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization devoted to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, informed a seemingly stunned Tony Birtley that most of what’s been revealed “is not new”.

Tony [...]

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