Middle East
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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Middle East
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
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Fabius: Iran Nuclear Accord Only at ‘Last Moment’
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on May 13 that a nuclear agreement with Iran could only be reached if it deals seriously with the ……Read More
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Optimism on P5+1/ Iran Talks
With a self-imposed deadline of July 20 to conclude a final agreement, the P5+1 and Iran meet once again this week in Vienna in the ……Read More