Middle East
Restricted and Rolling: Tehran’s 27th Book Fair
Tehran’s International Book Fair, a ten-day-long, twenty-seven year-old annual event, concluded on May 10th this year in a 120,000 square-meter venue at Tehran’s Grand Prayer ……Read More
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Congress Should Support, Not Sabotage, Nuclear Talks with Iran
Reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran faces formidable challenges. As negotiators meet in Vienna this week to begin drafting a long-term deal that will ……Read More
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Iran Role Resurges With Nuclear Talks, Saudi Overture
As Iran resumed talks this week with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1), the Barack Obama administration and France ……Read More
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Who Makes Tehran’s Arab Policy?
Geography alone should make the Arab world Iran’s key foreign policy focus. Of Iran’s 13 immediate neighbors, seven are Arab countries.[1]But Tehran’s approach to the ……Read More
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Hagel’s Meeting with “GCC” Defense Ministers: How to Measure Results
In a significant policy speech in Manama in December, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was in full reassurance mode, letting our Gulf* allies know that the United ……Read More
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Another View from Israel on Iran’s Nuclear Program and What it Means
VOF: Comments by the former Director-General of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, Brig. Gen. Uzi Eilam, made big news in Israel on May 8 because they ……Read More