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Listening to Brzezinski talk about Washington’s Iran Options

From On December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Last week I attended an event hosted by the Arms Control Association and the National Iranian American Council on how to make diplomacy work with Iran. I wrote about it here. Keynote speaker Zbigniew Brzezinski was the last to speak and showed up minutes before he took [...]

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CFR and WSJ Need to Fact Check With the CIA and IAEA

From On January 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

With the media and punditry focused on what to make of comments from retiring Mossad head Meir Dagan that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon until 2015, Der Spiegel’s interview with IAEA chief Yukiya Amano should be closely read as a reminder of what exactly the IAEA and the West publicly acknowledge [...]

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NIAC Calls out Anti-Iranian Stanford Professor

From On January 6, 2011 · 6 Comments

Here’s something curious, via the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).

It seems Stanford professor Jeffrey Ullman harbors some antipathy toward Iranian students as evinced by his negative views of their government and its politics (specifically vis-à-vis Israel).  Doesn’t he know that Iranian students have long stood at the vanguard of the reform and Green [...]

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Sen. Joe Lieberman Ignores Secretary of Defense, May Endorse Military Option Against Iran

From On November 17, 2010 · 1 Comment

Senator Joe Lieberman, in his remarks to the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative on Tuesday, told Bill Kristol that the new Congress would press the Obama administration on sanctions but may also formally endorse the use of military force againt Iran.

Lieberman said (PDF):

Nobody wants to use military force against Iran, [...]

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The Realist and Neoconservative Views on the Saudi Arms Sale

From On September 17, 2010 · 5 Comments

*UPDATE*

Col. Pat Lang has written two informative blog posts about the arms sale.  In the first, Lang reminds his readers that the sale is a commercial transaction, not foreign aid. And on attempts to put the arms sale in the context of the “Iranian threat,” Lang quips, “The Iranian threat? [...]

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Patrick Disney Describes The Day After the US Bombs Iran

From On August 4, 2010 · 44 Comments

Patrick Disney, the former Assistant Policy Director for the National Iranian American Council, has written a great piece responding to Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon’s Washington Post op-ed, which Tony Karon described as “a ‘how-to-bomb Iran’ manual.”

(Ali discussed the increasingly hawkish rhetoric coming out of the Council on Foreign Relations [...]

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