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Democratic Heavyweights Advocate Broadening Negotiations with Iran
Last month in a barely noticed op-ed prominent voices Lee H. Hamilton, Gary Hart and Matthew Hodes strongly recommended focusing on “shared interests” and the “broader issues” that have marred...
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via Lobe Log Song: “Stranger in Moscow” by the late and great, Michael Jackson Julian Borger, Laura Rozen and Scott Peterson report on the “wide gap” and the “nitty gritty” details of the latest round...
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A Reply to Mark Dubowitz’s call for “Economic Warfare” against Iran
By Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Muhammad Sahimi via Lobe Log In numerous op-eds and in testimonies before congressional audiences Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for the...
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50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis Offers Lessons for Iran
via IPS News It was exactly 50 years ago when then-President John F. Kennedy took to the airwaves to inform the world that the Soviet Union was introducing nuclear-armed missiles into Cuba and that he...
View ArticleSyrian Crisis: Carnage to Intensify
via Lobe Log The UN High Commission for Human Rights now believes 60,000 Syrians have been killed since March 2011 (far more than claimed by the Syrian opposition) and that death rates have been rising...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Astana Registers Diplomatic Boost with Iran Nuclear Talks
by Joanna Lillis When Iranian officials sit down at the negotiating table in Almaty with representatives from six international powers, Kazakhstan will gain kudos that will burnish its international...
View ArticleCan the Iranian Nuclear Dispute be Resolved?
by Peter Jenkins Readers who recall that four years ago a new US President seemed eager to defuse the West’s quarrel with Iran over its nuclear activities may wonder why we are all still waiting for...
View ArticleRussia: Looking at History as a Continuation of Politics
by Igor Torbakov The leading Bolshevik historian Mikhail Pokrovsky famously defined history as “politics projected into the past.” Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is taking that concept, and...
View ArticleWill Putin Lash Out?
by Mark N. Katz What a difference a few months make. During much of 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin was riding high. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine quickly and relatively bloodlessly. Putin...
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