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Can the Iranian Nuclear Dispute be Resolved?

From On April 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment

by Peter Jenkins

Readers who recall that four years ago a new US President seemed eager to defuse the West’s quarrel with Iran over its nuclear activities may wonder why we are all still waiting for white smoke. I am not sure I know the answer, but I have a hunch it has something to [...]

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The 2013 DNI on Iran’s Nuclear Program

From On March 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Jasmin Ramsey

The Director of National Intelligence submitted the annual report on the “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community” today. The report can be accessed here and following are key passages that are relevant to Iran’s nuclear program, compliments of the Ploughshares Fund Early Warning [...]

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With a Cyberwar Quietly Taking Place in the Background

From On December 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Iran seems to be maintaining its previous stance on uranium enrichment — a key issue for Western powers and Israel — ahead of proposed talks by the 6-power P5+1 negotiating group. On Tuesday, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI), said Iran would ”not suspend 20 percent [...]

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Worrying Development Ahead of Resumed Talks with Iran

From On December 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Laura Rozen reports that the six world power negotiating team may not be revamping its package to be more generous with Iran as many were hoping (Russia has not even signed on to the new version yet) ahead of resumed talks which likely won’t take place until January.

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What is Iran up to these days?

From On October 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Laura Rozen has an exclusive on alleged Iranian attempts to establish back-channel contacts with non-official Americans ahead of the (hopefully) resumed nuclear negotiations:

Mostafa Dolatyar, a career Iranian diplomat who heads the Iranian think tank, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), which has close ties to Iran’s [...]

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Former Mossad chief: Failure to negotiate with Iran would lead to war

From On October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Laura Rozen’s recent interview with former Mossad director Efraim Halevy focuses heavily on diplomatic options for the US, Israel and Iran in the impasse over the Iranian nuclear program. Halevy, like former Mossad director Meir Dagan and a number of past and present US and Israeli national security officials, opposes preventive [...]

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Former Israeli Mossad Director Gets Liver Transplant from Iran Ally Belarus

From On October 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Meir Dagan, the former director of Israel’s Mossad, has received a liver transplant in Belarus. Reports from the Israeli press that have now made their way into western media sources state that Belarus’ president, Alexander Lukashenko, announced at a press conference on Oct. 16 that the operation had taken place [...]

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Dempsey discourages Israel strike against Iran, Shapiro and Netanyahu Quarrel

From On September 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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On Thursday the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, told reporters in London that an Israeli attack on Iran would “clearly delay but probably not destroy Iran’s nuclear programme” adding that “I don’t want to be complicit if they choose to do it.”

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Colin Kahl: Israel threats to strike Iran not “merely bluffing”

From On August 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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In an interview with Al-Monitor‘s Laura Rozen, the Obama Administration’s former top Pentagon mideast advisor, Colin Kahl, explains why he isn’t writing off Israel’s latest threats about Iran from key Israeli decision-makers Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak as mere saber-rattling:

Al-Monitor: Why are the arguments that it is [...]

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Al-Monitor: U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran is from 2010, experts say

From On August 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Laura Rozen clears up the cloud of confusion over Ehud Barak’s comments last week implying that a new U.S. intelligence assessment on Iran that shares Israel’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear program had been released:

Several American former officials told Al-Monitor Thursday that they believed what Israeli officials may [...]

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