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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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HuffPost Live: Iran Diplomacy is Working

From On March 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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Gary Sick (Columbia University professor who served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan), Joe Cirincione (President of the Ploughshares Fund), Trita Parsi (President of the National Iranian American Council) and Michael Eisenstadt (senior fellow at the Washington Institute) discuss the results of last week’s talks [...]

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All Eyes on Iran for AIPAC 2013 Conference

From On March 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Mitchell Plitnick

The annual Israel-Congress orgy dubbed as the AIPAC Policy Conference kicked off today. It might just as well be called the War on Iran conference — that’s sure to be the issue that dominates the proceedings. The US-Israel relationship is taking the second spot. And the Palestinians? More [...]

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Eli’s Story on Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum

From On December 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Following up on LobeLog’s revelation in September that Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Forum (MEF) helped support the defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), our former colleague Eli Clifton has published new information about the funders of MEF’s Legal Project – among them, [...]

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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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Avoiding the Slippery Slope to War with Iran

From On November 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Amidst reports that stalled negotiations with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme may soon be jump-started, many here are arguing that a mutually negotiated settlement remains the most effective option for resolving the dispute and averting the threat of war.

“We believe there is time and clearly there is an [...]

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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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Will Disgraced Pres. Ahmadinejad Impede Diplomatic Window of Opportunity with Iran?

From On November 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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US-Iran relations expert Trita Parsi explains why diplomatic headway can be made with Iran in the time period after the US presidential election and before the Iranian election in the Daily Beast’s “Open Zion“:

Between November 8, 2012, and mid-March 2013, a unique opportunity exists to make diplomatic headway [...]

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Has Israel backed down?

From On November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak’s recent comments indicating that Israel has delayed its attack-Iran timeline by 8-10 months is causing a stir among Iran watchers. From the Daily Telegraph:

Earlier this year, however, Iran delayed the arrival of that moment. Tehran has amassed 189kg of uranium enriched to 20 per cent [...]

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Matthew Kroenig and Trita Parsi Debate: Should the US Strike Iran?

From On October 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Back in January, academic Matthew Kroenig claimed the United States could militarily strike Iran without causing havoc and catastrophe in the region. His arguments were widely criticized and supported by the usual suspects. Jamie Fly, the neoconservative executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative, disagreed with Kroenig, but only because [...]

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