CFR/IISS Book: War With Iran Would be "A Mistake"
Steven Simon, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs at the International Institute of Strategic...
View ArticleACA’s Daryl Kimball critiques Iran anti containment senate resolution
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, offers a critique of the bipartisan senate resolution to be presented on Thursday, which pressures the Obama administration to rule...
View ArticleJim Lobe discusses Obama, Israel, AIPAC and Iran on the Real News
As expected, Iran has been the top issue at this year’s American Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference. The leading pro-Israel lobby has been pushing for harsher measures against the Islamic...
View ArticleHawks on Iran
In response to a worrying trend in U.S. politics, Lobe Log publishes “Hawks on Iran” every Friday. Our posts highlight militaristic commentary and confrontational policy recommendations about Iran from...
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Senate Draft Letter Presses Administration To Offer Few Concessions For...
via Think Progress Photo: Sens. Blunt (L) and Menendez (R) With negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program moving to Moscow next week, a draft letter to be circulated among Senators for signature calls...
View ArticleMatthew Kroenig and Trita Parsi Debate: Should the US Strike Iran?
via Lobe Log Back in January, academic Matthew Kroenig claimed the United States could militarily strike Iran without causing havoc and catastrophe in the region. His arguments were widely criticized...
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In Search of a Strategy for the Middle East
via Lobe Log By James Russell As suggested most recently by Stephen Walt, a regrettable and recurring theme of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy in the Gulf and the Middle East over the last...
View ArticleSucceed or Fail?: What Obama Must do in the Middle East
via Lobe Log by Robert E. Hunter Every US president since Harry Truman has sought to disentangle his administration from the Middle East, and all have found themselves sucked back into the region and...
View ArticleIsrael and Palestine: Obama Commits the US
via Lobe Log by Robert E. Hunter To say that President Barack Obama’s visit this spring to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan is the proverbial gamble is an understatement. He may end up (rightly)...
View ArticleDiplomacy is Still Washington’s Best Option for Iran
via Lobe Log by Jasmin Ramsey Two conversations are presently occurring in Washington about Iran. Hawks and hardliners are searching for new ways to force the Obama administration to tighten or impose...
View ArticleNuclear Iran Unlikely to Tilt Regional Power Balance – Report
by Jim Lobe and Joe Hitchon WASHINGTON, May 18 2013 (IPS) – A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab...
View ArticleContaining Iran Helps Putin’s Russia
via LobeLog by Shireen T. Hunter Not long after the outbreak of the crisis over Ukraine and Crimea, many observers began asking the following question: what impact could renewed Russo-Western tensions...
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