Iran Sanctions Leading US Toward Military Conflict
via Lobe Log The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has updated its Iran Sanctions page to include more individuals and entities, including Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic...
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Obama Denies Bilateral Iran Nuclear Talks Underway but doesn’t Reject them...
via Lobe Log During his first Press Conference today following his successful second-term campaign, President Barak Obama emphasized that the United States wants to peacefully resolve the tense dispute...
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Iran and the United States: Ready, set, go?
via Lobe Log Former Iran-desk State Department staffer Reza Marashi and journalist Sahar Namazikhah remind us that Iran’s influnetial Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has publicly...
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U.S. Escalation Against Iran Would Carry High Cost for Global Economy
via IPS News The world economy would bear substantial costs if the United States took steps to significantly escalate the conflict with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, according to the...
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Gaza and Iran
via Lobe Log What a difference four years can make! Almost a week into Operation Pillar of Defense and the Israelis have yet to make the case for the necessity of continuing the attacks on Gaza in...
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Gaza, Iran and Israel’s Never-ending War with Reality
via Lobe Log Okay, it seems I spoke too soon. Hamas is now back in the “Iranian-supported” camp according to this editorial in the New York Times, which identifies Hamas as both “backed by Iran” and...
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Report: Iran Sanctions Harming Iranian-Americans
via Lobe Log The Asian Law Caucus (ALC), in collaboration with the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) and several other Iranian-American organizations, has released a publication...
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Gaza and Iran’s Security Policy
via Lobe Log You will not hear me say this often, but Hossein Shariatmadari — Iran’s irascible and intractable editor of the hardline Kayhan daily — makes one important point in this editorial....
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Iran Debates Direct Talks with the US
via Lobe Log As the Iranian leadership prepares to engage in negotiations with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (P5+1), the conversation inside Iran has...
View ArticleIran in 2012: A Year in Review
via Lobe Log For Iran, 2012 will go down as the year of economic woes. The mantra of the “enemy’s psychological war against Iran” will no longer be blamed more than internal mismanagement even by the...
View ArticleRecapping Iran Sanctions Logic Ahead of Talks
via Lobe Log by Jasmin Ramsey The following quote from this Washington Post article on last week’s nuclear talks with Iran stood out despite it being a regurgitation of past statements: “I don’t want...
View ArticleFarideh Farhi: Too Soon for a Breakthrough but Progress Possible for Iran...
via Lobe Log by Jasmin Ramsey Ahead of the technical-level nuclear talks that will take place in Istanbul on March 18 and the top-level talks that will be held in early April, Farideh Farhi, an...
View ArticleWhat Just Happened in Iran?
by Gary Sick Farideh Farhi has done her usual excellent job of unwrapping the Iranian internal political scene. I very much share her surprise about this weekend’s events. I thought that the Supreme...
View ArticleCultural Engagement Key to Improving US-Iran Relations – Report
by Jasmin Ramsey via IPS News Increasing U.S.-Iran cultural exchanges could lay the groundwork for better relations between the two countries, believes a prominent think tank here, despite the...
View ArticleUnderstanding Rouhani’s UNGA Speech
by Jasmin Ramsey Yesterday Princeton’s Kevan Harris explained to me that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani tried to ”expand to the international sphere his domestic election rhetoric about hope and...
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Iran is at a crossroads
via LobeLog by Jasmin Ramsey The title of this post is a quote from Shaul Bakhash, a George Mason University professor who moderated a panel discussion, “Iran, the Next Five Years: Change or More of...
View ArticleWill Iran Strike a Final Nuclear Deal?
via LobeLog by Jasmin Ramsey The only certainty now about the talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program is that the negotiators have their work cut out for them. Other than...
View ArticleIran: Human Rights Defenders Strongly Support Nuclear Talks
via LobeLog by Jasmin Ramsey The talks in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program will likely continue past the July 20 deadline for reaching a final deal. President Barack Obama noted “real progress” but...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Talks: The Price of Failure
by Mitchell Plitnick Once upon a time, it seemed that the Obama administration had held off opponents in Congress as well as pressure from Israel in order to press forward with negotiations with Iran....
View ArticleCuba and Iran
via Lobelog by Jim Lobe Since Obama’s announcement last week that he will normalize relations with Cuba, a number of commentators have analyzed what impact this might have on US-Iranian ties,...
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