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Takin’ It To China
June 14, 2010While China has wavered over whether to participate in the American-led march to hang sanctions on Iran, officials of the Jewish Country have been pushing their own mum campaign to convince the Chinese that Iran should be disciplined for their renegade nuclear program. Last February, an Israeli delegation made their way to Beijing to present [...]
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IRAN SANCTIONS VOTE UNDERLINES OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY INCOMPETENCE
June 9, 2010No one believes in the efficacy of UN sanctions. Their sole influence is international de-legitimization. Therefore, it is important to note that it was a divided UN Security Council which finally passed a fourth round of sanctions designed to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Two angry regional power and erstwhile American allies, Turkey and [...]
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AHMADINEJAD CHECKMATES OBAMA
May 17, 2010A. Savion, The Iran-Turkey-Brazil Nuclear Agreement: In the Iranian Perception, a New World Order Led By Iran As the Obama administration strives for achievements at the NPT review conference currently taking place in New York, Tehran launched a countermove in the nuclear issue vis-à-vis the U.S. and the West.Tehran, which at the time of [...]
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The NPT Test
May 3, 2010Today the representatives of 188 nations (give or take a few) assembled in New York City to debate ways to revise the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The issue could not be more important. As President Obama’s new Nuclear Posture Review declares, the greatest threats to global security are not the old Cold War adversaries but rogue [...]
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Iran’s Nukes: An International Security Priority
April 14, 2010Many leaders of the 46 countries attending President Obama’
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Whose Side is He On?
April 11, 2010This week, President Obama touted two initiatives he considers to be Big Things. He signed the New START Treaty with the Russians to cut our nuclear arsensal by 30%. And he issued a new Nuclear Posture Review that announced when we will never, ever use nuclear weapons, ie. even if New York and Los Angeles [...]
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This Might be the Most Important Story about Israel and America
April 9, 2010Roger L. Simon usefully posts a translation of a recent article from Ma’ariv, which reports that the U.S. is no longer regularly granting visas to Israeli scientists associated with the Dimona nuclear facility. The
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Syria and Israel Wax Nuclear in Paris
March 10, 2010On Tuesday both Israel and Syria announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear noodling. The confessions were made at an international conference in Paris on civilian nuclear energy. Nuclear energy contributes far less to global warming than the burning of [...]
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PETRAEUS: CONTAINMENT OF A NUCLEAR IRAN UNACCEPTABLE EVEN TO ARAB STATES
March 7, 2010“Sophisticated” foreign policy analysts agree with Ahmadinejad that a nuclear Iran is a fait accompli and containment is the only viable response to it. It would mean bringing the Middle East, including Israel, under the American nuclear umbrella. Former Secretary of state James Baker advocated just such a policy on Fareed Zakaria GPS a couple [...]
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Poll: Iranians Willing to Forego Nuclear Weapons in Return for Normalizing Relations
February 10, 2010Thanks to Steve Walt for noting an important University of Maryland poll of Iranian attitudes toward its elected government and the nuclear impasse (full report). Contrary to the claims of neocons and their fellow travelers in the media, academia and the halls of the Israel lobby, Iranians appear generally to support the current government [...] [...]
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“Bogie” Ya’alon Speaks at the Herzliya Conference
February 4, 2010Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Threats Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon, spoke yesterday, on the last day of the Herzliya Conference. Addressing a panel on the strategic implications of a nuclear threshold Iran, he spoke of the threat Iran poses to the world, and Israel, in particular. If Iran were to obtain nuclear weapons, Ya’alon [...]
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Robert Kagan, Against an Israeli Strike on Iran
January 27, 2010Robert Kagan, in arguing for something I hope will happen — a strong statement from the Obama Administration in support of democratic change in Iran — makes the following observation:It would be similarly tragic if Israel damaged the likelihood of political change by carrying out an airstrike against Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming year. [...]
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Links for 2009-12-19 [Digg]
December 20, 2009Military Attack on Iran Will Set Reform Back 50 Years Yesterday, I organized a series of media and public events on the Iranian nuclear crisis which featured Prof. Muhammad Sahimi, an expert on Iran’s nuclear program and Ian Lustick, a political science professor at the Univ. of Penn.