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On Our “Now What?” Moment

From On April 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Farideh Farhi

From the looks of it, the second round of talks with Iran in Almaty, Kazakhstan was a complete failure, with both sides unable to even find a common language to begin a process of give and take. The sense I get is that the US side is rather [...]

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Should the consequences of war with Iran be discussed in private?

From On November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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This week, Jeffrey Goldberg gave cover to Mitt Romney’s critique of public discussion about the consequences of going to war with Iran in Bloomberg News.

Goldberg wasn’t giving Romney a platform for his messaging; he agrees with the Republican nominee’s assessment:

Romney’s more potent criticism of Obama has more to [...]

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Major US-UK Tiff Over Legality of Iran Strike

From On October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Amidst reports that Great Britain has denied the US military use of important British bases for an assault against Iran, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters on Friday that whenever the DOD considers military action “we do it within the legal confines…of this country.” The US [...]

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Experts: Progress in Iran Nuclear Talks requires flexibility, creativity

From On October 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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“There is the possibility of progress in the next round [of Iran nuclear talks], but it’s going to require that both sides be more flexible and a little more creative,” says the Arms Control Association’s Daryl Kimball in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations.

“Whatever happens after [...]

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ISIS Report: Highly Enriched Uranium in Iran should be “unacceptable”

From On October 29, 2012 · 1 Comment

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The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has released a brief report emphasizing that Iran continues to move toward nuclear weapons capability and the international community must halt further progress. ISIS’s latest concern centers around Iranian lawmaker Mansour Haqiqatpour’s October 2 comment that Iran could enrich uranium to 60 percent [...]

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Do Obama and Romney differ on Iran?

From On October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Two must-read analyses of the Iran portion from last night’s final presidential debate are brought to us by TIME’s Tony Karon and the Arms Control Association’s Greg Thielmann. (This TPM headline also sums up the entire debate quite nicely: “Romney’s Final Debate Message: I’ll Be A Better Obama”.)

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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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Iran War Game “Tell me how this ends” Highlights Massive “Military option” costs

From On October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Truman National Security Project has created an interactive version of a war game with Iran. The goal is to highlight the costs of using the military option — financially massive and downright bad for US allies and forces in the region — on the Islamic Republic.

The game [...]

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Questions that would liven up tonight’s foreign policy debate

From On October 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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US foreign policy specialist Stephen Walt lists the top ten questions you won’t hear during tonight’s last presidential nominee debate. Iran will be a central focus, if not the most talked about issue, but we’re unlikely to hear serious discussion along these lines according to Walt:

8. The United States has [...]

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Expect High Human Toll from Robust Military Assault Against Iranian Nuclear Program

From On October 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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By Wayne White

An excellent October 18 article, “The Myth of ‘Surgical Strikes’ on Iran“, by David Isenberg highlighted many of the conclusions of a sobering study by industrialist Khosrow Semnani on the potentially steep human cost of even a relatively selective attack against Iran’s diverse nuclear infrastructure. Semnani maintains that if the most important facilities [...]

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