Peter Crail has a post up on the Arms Control Association’s blog, Arms Control NOW, summarizing a recent analysis by Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Leif Eckholm which compares the invasion of Iraq with possible Iran invasion scenarios. As Crail notes, the comments made by Eckholm and other U.S. generals (not to [...]
Five Senators sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday warning the administration not to offer concessions in upcoming talks with Iran over its nuclear program. If Obama takes the advice, experts say, it could sink his engagement efforts with Tehran.
The letter (PDF, with full text below), broken by Foreign [...]
The Arms Control Association’s Peter Crail has a letter to the editor in today’s Washington Post. The note is a response to the newspaper’s editorial of September 10 (covered in our Talking Points that day) asserting that sanctions are not working to curb Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons aspirations. The headline [...]
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