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Iran Seeks Reciprocity in Nuclear Negotiations

From On February 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Mohammad Ali Shabani

by Mohammad Ali Shabani

Iran and the P5+1 — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany — are set to resume nuclear talks in Kazakhstan on 26 February, but little appears to have changed since their previous meeting in Russia last summer.

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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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Sanctions Continue to hit Average Iranians

From On November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The US-led sanctions regime isn’t directly targeting Iran’s healthcare system but reports continue to suggest that critically-ill Iranians are being affected. The Al Jazeera English clip above squares with Najmeh Bozorgmehr’s Financial Times article from September about how  sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank are preventing critically-ill patients from getting crucial medical aid:

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Are we Finally Going to give Iran Diplomacy a Chance?

From On October 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Reuters reports that Western powers are examining “long-shot options” for the next possible round of talks with Iran:

One option could be for each side to put more on the table – both in terms of demands and possible rewards – than in previous meetings in a bid to [...]

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New sanctions set by EU against Iran

From On October 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Bloomberg News reports on a new round of EU sanctions against Iranian banks and firms that will be announced tomorrow:

The new restrictions also include a ban on exports to Iran of materials that could be used in the Iranian nuclear and ballistic programs, in particular graphite, aluminum and steel as [...]

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UN Chief: Sanctions “affecting humanitarian operations” in Iran

From On October 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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This is becoming a recurring theme: sanctions are affecting the supply of humanitarian essentials for Iranians regardless of special waivers. Reuters has the report:

“The sanctions also appear to be affecting humanitarian operations in the country,” Ban wrote in the report, dated August 22, to the 193-member General Assembly on [...]

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Treasury touts economic unrest in Iran as policy success; UANI urges “economic blockade”

From On October 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The US and EU are touting Iran’s currency woes as proof that sanctions are working, though it’s not clear to what end. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Western powers “are working on new coordinated measures intended to accelerate the recent plunge of Iran’s currency and drain its foreign-exchange reserves”:

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The Daily Talking Points

From On September 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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“U.S., allies in Gulf naval exercise as Israel, Iran face off”: Reuters reports on the mineclearing exercise scheduled to take place in the coming days in the Strait of Hormuz:

Publicly announced in July, the operation, known as IMCMEX-12, focuses on clearing mines that Tehran, or guerrilla groups, might deploy [...]

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After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Threat

From On September 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Jim Lobe and Gareth Porter

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President Barack Obama’s explicit warning that he will not accept a unilateral Israeli attack against Iran may force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from his ostensible threat of war.

Netanyahu had hoped that the Obama administration could be put under domestic [...]

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IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity

From On September 1, 2012 · 1 Comment

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report made public Thursday reveals that Iran has actually reduced the amount of 20-percent enriched uranium available for any possible “breakout” to weapons grade enrichment over the last three months rather than increasing it.

Contrary to the impression conveyed by most news media coverage, [...]

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