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Nuclear Warfare
After Failed Negotiations, Iran Weighs a Nuclear “Breakout”
It does not appear that Iran intends to give up its nuclear activity; instead, it is waiting for the right moment to “break out.” Read More »
Arab Spring and Middle East WMDFZ at the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference
Arab Spring and Middle East WMDFZ Click here to listen Event Panel April 9, 2013 Washington, DC, Ronald Reagan Building International Trade Center, Amphitheater The 2010 NPT Review Conference Action Plan endorsed the convening in 2012 of a ... Read More »
Understanding the Current State of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge
If negotiations only halt one aspect of the Iranian nuclear effort while letting the other parts of the program go forward, the world will still face an Iranian challenge in the years ahead. Read More »
About Those Talks With Iran
The reports coming out of the last round of talks between the P5+1 and Iran, held in Kazakhstan, were surprisingly positive. Read More »
‘US would back Israel in defensive Iran strike’
Bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduce resolution: U.S. would back Israel militarily in defensive strike, unilateral penalties against Iran “This is not a green light to Israel to do anything other than defend itself,” says Sen. Menendez. Read More »
Iranian Policy Toward Direct Nuclear Talks with the U.S.
Iran will not hasten to renew the dialogue with the United States, and will want to engage in such talks only from a position of strength. Read More »
The Postponed Iranian Crisis
At the end of October, Defense Minister Ehud Barak gave a revealing interview to London’s Daily Telegraph in which he explained why the urgency around the Iranian issue had changed. Read More »
Is There a Secret US-Iran Agreement?
Whether the U.S.-Iranian contacts that were reported this week are being handled as back-channel negotiations, despite all the known pitfalls of this approach, or as formal secret talks, the Obama administration probably would have preferred that they not have been revealed at this precise time. Read More »
Iran and Nuclear Deception
What is significant is that any future arrangement between the West and Iran must be based on an ironclad system of inspections, if such understandings are ever reached, given the role that outright deception continues to play in Iran’s diplomatic relations with the West. Read More »
Iran’s Response to Netanyahu’s UN Speech:
Israel, Not Iran, Is the Problem
Iran’s leadership, UN representatives, and state-run media responded to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN speech with a coordinated line that presents Israel as the problem instead of Iran, which is said to be pursuing a nuclear program for peaceful purposes ... Read More »
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Red Line on Iran
In his UN address on September 27, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the advances that had transpired in the Iranian nuclear program. He broke down the progress Iran has been making into three stages which mark the extent to which ... Read More »
Hizbullah Threatens to Strike Strategic Israeli Targets
in Response to an Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
Iran has given a green light for the immediate use of Hizbullah’s military force against Israel in response to an attack. Read More »
Lessons for Israel from Captured Iraqi Nuclear Documents
But if the purpose of nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel’s enemies is to make it safe for them to return to the era of conventional wars, then Israel must make sure that it guarantees that at the end of the day it must not be forced to concede its most vital territorial assets based on the unfounded notion that they no longer matter in the nuclear era. Read More »
The Dangers of Accepting Iran as a Nuclear Threshold State
If this situation continues, it will become far harder in the future for any state to stop Iran’s determination to acquire nuclear weapons. Read More »
Iran Ramps Up Its Genocidal Rhetoric
Iran is using of the Palestinian issue and denial of Israel’s right to exist to win the hearts and minds of Muslims across the Middle East. Read More »