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Sanctions as the end

From On December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Paul Pillar, a former top CIA analyst, examines the fight between Congress and the Obama Administration over more sanctions being proposed for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by Sens. Robert Menendez, (D-N.J). and Mark S. Kirk, (R-Ill.).

Prior to revisions, the Senators were pushing for [...]

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US-Iran Settlement Requires Looking Beyond Netanyahu’s Goals

From On December 11, 2012 · 2 Comments

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By Michael Brenner

Graham Allison and Shai Feldman, the two distinguished authors of the “Coming Clash over Iran“, have reduced the complicated, contentious issue of Iran’s relations with the United States to the tenor of dealings between Washington and Jerusalem. Means, methods and strategies for “keeping them on the same [...]

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How the US and Israel can avoid further clashes over Iran

From On December 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Academics Graham Allison and Shai Feldman predict a “Coming Clash over Iran” between the United States and Israel in the National Interest. Significant developments during the next 6 months — further Iranian nuclear progress; potential reinvigorated attempts at diplomacy by the US and Iran; more Israeli apprehension [...]

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Khatami-era Nuclear Negotiator Explains why Iran doesn’t want the bomb

From On December 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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According to Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian, the spokesperson for Iran’s nuclear negotiating team (2003-2005) and now a visiting scholar at Princeton University, an Iranian nuclear weapon “would provide only a short-term regional advantage that would turn into a longer-term vulnerability”.

Arrested for apparently politically motivated reasons during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency, [...]

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On what a Second-Term President Obama should do with Iran

From On November 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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George Washington Political Science Professor Mark Lynch in Foreign Policy:

With military action in the background but not imminent, and sanctions taking a real political and economic toll inside of Iran, now seems to be the right time to begin a serious effort at real talks with Iran over [...]

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Mousavian: Use Nixonian Realism with Iran

From On September 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The former ambassador and key Iranian nuclear negotiator, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, writes:

The United States and Iran should aim for the kind of sustained and comprehensive talks that have not been seen for the last three decades. It would be prudent for Washington and Tehran to engage in [...]

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US Analysts: Netanyahu crossing the line with Obama

From On September 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Adding to a central point of David Remnick’s article in the New Yorker earlier this week — that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone too far with his pressure campaign against President Barak Obama and alienated allies in the process — are additional arguments in the National Interest, the [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On September 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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News and views relevant to US foreign policy for Sept. 10

“Nuclear Mullahs”: The former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, summarizes the debate over Iran’s nuclear program and concludes that no war with Iran is far better than a preemptive war and hopes for a [...]

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Hawks on Iran

From On August 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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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.

Jacob Helibrunn, National Interest: The senior editor argues that President Obama could “bomb Iran in late October” to [...]

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“Shared Myth: The status quo U.S.-Iran cold war is sustainable”

From On August 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Former Iran-desk State Department staffer Reza Marashi and Iran scholar Reza Sanati write that after more than 3 decades of “institutionalized enmity”, damaging myths perpetuated by both sides have “facilitated and exacerbated U.S.-Iran hostility.” The authors list five such false narratives; here’s the most damaging/alarming one:

5.) Shared Myth: The status quo [...]

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