US Swagger Equals Foreign Policy Disaster
If Iran offers to swap its low-enriched uranium for higher grade uranium, does the US have the right to dismiss it because it doesn't meet our conditions?
If Iran offers to swap its low-enriched uranium for higher grade uranium, does the US have the right to dismiss it because it doesn't meet our conditions?
Sam Black | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
The former head of the international nuclear watchdog, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, has left his successor, Yukiya Amano of Japan, with an underfunded and politically charged agency.
Richard W. Parker | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
The Iran talks don't need hot heads, moralistic rhetoric and ominous reminders that we're "running out of time." What is needed is leaders with the pragmatism and vision to know a workable deal when they see it
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and JASON KEYSER | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's announcement of plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster after a strong rebuke from the U.N...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — A conservative Iranian legislator warned Saturday that his country may pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after a U....
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.27.2009 | World
If Iran announced a complete halt of its uranium enrichment program and ordered an immediate dismantling of its nuclear facilities ... we would still not cut the Islamic Republic any slack.
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
VIENNA — In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three...
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.27.2009 | World
VIENNA — The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday his probe of Iran's nuclear program is at "a dead end" and th...
Richard W. Parker | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
Will Iran accept the kind of deal ElBaradai is said to be seeking -- a deal that gives Iran limited enrichment in exchange for a form of nationwide surveillance?
AP | NASSER KARIMI and SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
TEHRAN — Iran insists on simultaneously exchanging its low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel produced overseas, the state news agency said Frida...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection tha...
William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.
New York Times | William J. Broad And David E. Sanger | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired "sufficient information to ...
William Bradley | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
There was some good progress in Thursday's international negotiation sessions with Iran. But anyone who imagines the problem is solved is quite delusional.
Hamdan Azhar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
We will fondly remember our nation's potential to be a force for good in the world under President Obama, but we will always wonder why that potential was never actualized.
William Bradley | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
There's a point in the Iran situation where semantics come into play. Is Iran on a path to nuclear weapons-capable technology? Yes. Is it producing nuclear weapons? No. Does it intend to produce nuclear weapons?
David Harris | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
Iran has been caught in yet another act of deception. Faced with the prospect of being outed by the U.S., Tehran's leaders informed the IAEA of a second uranium enrichment facility.
The New York Times | MARK LANDLER | Posted 11.27.2009 | World
The Obama administration is scrambling to assemble a package of harsher economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program that could include a ...
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
VIENNA — Iran experts at the U.N.'s nuclear monitoring agency believe that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developin...
AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
VIENNA — The United States says it has "serious concerns" that Iran is deliberately trying – at a minimum – to preserve a nuclear we...
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
VIENNA — Iran's output of enriched uranium is stagnating even as its production capacity increases, a sign that Tehran may be running out of the...
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
VIENNA — The world's top nuclear watchdog chose Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next head on Thursday _ and he touched on the devastation U.S. atom ...
Bradley Burston | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Even if a recount should topple Ahmadinejad, Mousavi is firmly on record as supporting the nuclear program, and opposing changes aimed at barring Iran from using it to produce weaponry.
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - A report on Iran's nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories p...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
As North Korea restarts its main nuclear plant and Iran continues to flex its nuclear muscles, a less publicized nuclear renaissance is underway in the Middle East.
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics