Lower Oil Prices Will Not Turn Producers into Pushovers
by Paul R. Pillar The steep drop in the price of oil during the latter half of 2014 has generated much comment about how this development has weakened major oil-producing countries and supposedly made...
View ArticleGraham Fuller’s Five Middle East Predictions for 2015
Only a fool offers longer term predictions about the Middle East. I offer the following longer terms predictions about the Middle East for 2015. ISIS will decline in power and influence. I have stated...
View ArticleSanctions and Symmetry in the Iran Negotiations
by Paul R. Pillar Notwithstanding the obvious asymmetries in soon-to-resume nuclear negotiations with Iran (it’s Iran’s nuclear program, not the U.S. one, that is being restricted; it’s the United...
View ArticleIran’s NPT Withdrawal Option
by François Nicoullaud The risk of failure in the ongoing negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program has increased after the most recent meetings in Oman and Vienna. The resolution of the key...
View ArticleGOP Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson Funds Mysterious Anti-Iran Pressure Group
by Eli Clifton Nearly one-third of anti-Iran pressure group United Against Nuclear Iran’s 2013 budget came from the country’s foremost Republican mega-donor, a man who invested a reported $98 million...
View ArticleDeciphering Iran’s Strategic Vision
by Sina Toossi With nuclear negotiations between Iran and six world powers set to resume on January 18 in Geneva, no breakthrough in the talks is in sight. This deadlock begs the questions: what is the...
View ArticleThe Worst Case for War With Iran You’ll Read in a Major Newspaper
by Ali Gharib Many opponents of a nuclear deal with Iran simply won’t come out and say what they seem to be constantly getting at: that the United States should go to war. Well, kudos to the hawkish...
View ArticleMisreading Public Opinion on Nuclear Negotiations With Iran
by Ebrahim Mohseni As the P5+1 and Iran negotiate over the future of Iran’s nuclear program, some have begun to argue that the Iranian people are so supportive of reaching a deal that the Iranian...
View ArticleBibi says Iran will soon have 100 nuclear bombs. Well, where are they?
by Shemuel Meir Speaking at the Jerusalem Post’s Diplomatic Conference on December 6th, 2017, Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that, within a decade, Iran stands to emerge from the nuclear deal with not...
View ArticleThe Iran Nuclear Controversy Is a Symptom of Other Problems
by Shireen T. Hunter In the last few days, an informal haggling between the United States and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program has developed. Reportedly Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said that...
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