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Iran's Breakout Incapability |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Claims in the United States that Iran is rapidly approaching "nuclear breakout capability" are mostly based on assumptions and conjecture. The real hope for a breakthrough in US-Iran relations hinges on avoiding rehashed calls for "coercive diplomacy" and recognition of Tehran's willingness to embrace transparency demands. |
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Why Diplomacy and Sanctions Don't Mix |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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To succeed with his pro-diplomacy agenda, Obama must not only avoid the fallacy that Washington doesn't have leverage over Iran and recognize the value of offering to lift existing sanctions in return for Iranian policy changes. He must also resist the temptation to undermine the path to negotiations by imposing new sanctions before talks have begun--including resisting pressure from domestic constituencies whose motivation for sanctions historically has precisely been to prevent a US-Iranian diplomatic breakthrough to begin with. |
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Security Agreements Mean Iraq Occupation Will Continue to 2012 and Beyond |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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For more than five-and-a-half years, and at the cost of the lives of at least one million Iraqis and over 4,200 Americans, the US has occupied Iraq and repressed all opposition to its presence. The Iraqi parliament's ratification of a status of forces agreement and "Strategic Framework" with the US on November 27 ensures the ongoing occupation of the country and formalises its status as a US client state. |
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Remaking the World in America’s Image |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has completed his national security team, and its composition confirms that nothing fundamental is likely to change in American foreign policy. |
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Postcard from...Persepolis |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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John McCain and his "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" lost the presidential election. George W. Bush and his view of Iran as an "evil" nation will soon leave the White House. Barack Obama could open a new chapter in U.S.-Iranian relations by visiting Iran. He wouldn't be alone. |
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Is Iran Policy Still Up for Grabs? |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Organizations like WINEP, AIPAC, AEI, BPC, and UANI see it as their mission to push the United States toward a showdown with Iran. Don't sell them short. Those who believe that such a confrontation would be inconceivable under President Obama ought to ask Tony Lake, Susan Rice, Dennis Ross, Tom Daschle, and Richard Holbrooke whether they agree – and, if so, why they're still palling around with neoconservative hardliners. |
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Confronting the Terrorist Within |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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The East and the West do not have separate, competing value systems. We do not treat life with greater sanctity than those we belittle. There are aged survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who can tell us something about our high moral values and passionate concern for innocent human life, about our own acts of terrorism. Eastern and Western traditions have within them varied ethical systems, some of which are repugnant and some of which are worth emulating. To hold up the highest ideals of our own culture and to deny that these great ideals exist in other cultures, especially Eastern cultures, is made possible only by historical and cultural illiteracy. |
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Obama Urged to Quickly Engage Iran, Syria |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama should move quickly to engage Iran without preconditions and to promote an Israeli-Syrian peace accord, according to two veteran Middle East experts whose views are likely to have influence over Obama's just-announced foreign policy team. |
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Some Iraqi MPs Sit on the SOFA |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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After ten months of controversy and major amendments to the U.S.-Iraq security agreement, the Iraqi parliament finally approved it by a majority vote on November 27. |
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The Lessons of Mumbai |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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The attacks in Mumbai of 26-29 November 2008 are as devastating as any since those of 11 September 2001. Their spectacular media impact is part of their character. This very worldwide publicity, however, can make it easy to forget that many other major incidents in these seven years - even outside Afghanistan and Iraq, the two main theatres of the "war on terror" - have similarly been carefully mounted complex operations against multiple targets. |
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