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Iran Nuclear Weapons

Iran Uprising Changes Nuclear Calculus

Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Nationalism, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Negotiations, Regime-Change, Twitter, Joseph Cirincione, Nuclear Weapons, The Uprising, Economy, President Obama, Leslie Gelb, Right Wing, Iran, Richard Lugar, Iran Election, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Joe Cirincione

Mousavi was always more open to dialogue with the West. If president, his discourse could now include the nuclear program with much less fear of attack.

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Obama's Doublespeak on Iran

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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Ismael Hossein-zadeh

In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.

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Iran Pre Election Polling Results from Terror Free Tomorrow

Taylor Marsh | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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Taylor Marsh

One thing you won't hear talked about much in the U.S. is the degree to which the Iranian people passionately desire a more open society and government.

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Kerry: Iran's Nuclear Enrichment For Energy Is Its Right

Financial Times | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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One of the most senior Democrats in Washington has dismissed a key element in the west's long standing strategy on Iran's nuclear programme as "ridicu...

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Obama at Buchenwald and Beyond

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Barack Obama, Acknowledgment of American Mistakes, Obama-Buchenwald-Visit, Obama Middle East Policy, Obama Cairo Speech, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Obama Saudi Arabia Visit, Elie Wiesel, Egypt, Germany, Cuba, Islamic Republic of Iran, Indonesia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, World News
Thane Rosenbaum

Perhaps Obama's Buchenwald visit was a symbolic reassurance to the Jews of the world: that he was aware of the reasons why a Jewish state became a moral necessity after the Holocaust.

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Bukra Enshalla Obama

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Election, Obama Cairo, Iran, Obama Mideast Trip, Obama Mideast Speech, Obama Cairo Speech, Ahmadinejad, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Joe Peyronnin

Iranian leadership took no chances that a "rock star" president offering a new beginning would fire up opposition. Iran has a national election coming up with important consequences for Ahmadinejad.

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Dear President Obama

David Suissa | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Dennis Ross, Israel Settlement, Gaza, West Bank, Muhmoud Abbas, Middle East, Washington Post, Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Middle East Peace, World News
David Suissa

Now that you have brought your can-do spirit and sense of optimism to that most intractable of conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians, I thought ...

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The Jerry Maguire Approach to Foreign Policy

Carlos Watson | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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Carlos Watson

To curb the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, to stimulate a viable Israel-Palestine solution, he's going to have to pay. I'm talking cold hard cash.

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Iran Nuclear Assessment May Have Been Tainted By Iranian Intelligence "Ruse"

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - A report on Iran's nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories p...

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Iran, North Korea and the Technology Fantasy

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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Michael B. Laskoff

I believe in the power of technology. I'm typing this blog on my laptop while sitting in a café, something that would have been considered extraordin...

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Obama: Iran Nuclear Energy Concerns Legitimate

AP | NANCY ZUCKERBROD | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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LONDON — President Barack Obama reiterated that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations ar...

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123 Agreement for Nuclear Energy in the UAE: An Unprecedented and Responsible Step

Thomas Graham | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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Thomas Graham

This agreement is significant because it codifies unprecedented steps the UAE is taking to prevent proliferation. It also enables the US to send an important message to the region.

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North Korea Nuclear Test Raises the Stakes on Nuclear Abolition

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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Sarah van Gelder

As the world comes to terms with the dangerous possibilities of a nuclear-armed North Korea and Iran, perhaps the obligations of the current nuclear power to work towards abolition will get the attention required for action.

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What if the Israelis Were to Bomb Iran?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...

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Maybe We Should Take the North Koreans at Their Word

Tad Daley | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Tad Daley

Does the Obama administration really think we can retain nuclear weapons for 50 more years and dodge the bullet of nuclear accident, terror or crisis?

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Spurred by Iran, Arab World Witnesses Nuclear Renaissance

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

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.

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Iran's Forgotten Movement

Shirin Mohammadi | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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Shirin Mohammadi

As the international community continues to focus its attention on Tehran's nuclear activities, the efforts of the Iranian student movement are being widely ignored.

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Ahmadinejad Challenges Obama To Debate At U.N.

AP | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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TEHRAN, Iran — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed on Monday a face-to-face debate with President Barack Obama at the United Nations if he is re-electe...

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Iran's Ahmadinejad Rejects Western Nuclear Proposal

Reuters | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected on Monday a "freeze-for-freeze" proposal put forward by the West in a bid to resolve a row over the Isla...

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Ahmadinejad: Ballots and Missiles

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

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Jamal Dajani

The competition in the Iranian presidential election is heating up, or so it seemed until recently on Iranian government-sponsored television.

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A Fictional Iran Intel Account of the Obama-Netanyahu Summit

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Holy Imam: The following report summarizes our Washington intelligence unit's assessment of Monday's summit meeting between the Zionist leader (Prime Minister Netanyahu) and the American President Barack Obama.

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John Bolton: North Korea Will Test Nukes Again

Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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The curtain is about to rise again on the long-running nuclear tragicomedy, "North Korea Outwits the United States." Despite Kim Jong Il's explicit th...

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Why Iranians Want Nukes: Analysis

Foreign Policy | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

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In their talks today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama will no doubt have discussed the uncomfortable subject...

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Iranian Military Vows To "Wipe Israel Out Of Existence" If Attacked

Huffington Post | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

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Video news coverage of interviews with Iranian military officials conducted in early May reveal the troubling increased contentiousness between the Is...

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No Linkage Between Iran and Palestinians

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Rahm Emanuel, Iran, Two-State Solution, Iran Nuclear Program, Israel, Israel Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Alan Dershowitz

Rahm Emanuel recently linked American efforts to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons to Israeli efforts toward establishing a Palestinian state. This is a dangerous linkage.

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