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U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess

Friday, November 20, 2009

As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's 'global war on terror'.

Politics: Iran Began Preparing for U.S. Bombing in 2002

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published new evidence Monday that Iran had been building 'contingency centres' in the event of a U.S. bombing attack as early as 2002, years before it began building the second enrichment facility at Qom.

Mideast: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again

Friday, November 06, 2009

As Israeli Defence Forces munitions experts sorted through 300 tonnes of weapons found on a German-owned, Cypriot-operated cargo ship flying the Antiguan flag, Israeli politicians were sifting through the various talking points that could be offloaded from the vessel.

Politics: On Nuke Disarmament, It's Still 'You First'

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Is the ongoing controversy over Iran's nuclear programme helping to advance the United Nations' agenda on nuclear disarmament? To a number of diplomats and experts who have participated in past U.N. discussions on the spread of nuclear weapons, the answer is, yes — although not necessarily for the expected reasons.

Politics: NIE Reveals Qom Facility Followed 2007 Bush Threats

Friday, October 23, 2009

The Barack Obama administration claims that construction of a second Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Qom began before Tehran's decision to withdraw from a previous agreement to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in advance of such construction. But the November 2007 U.S. intelligence estimate on Iran's nuclear programme tells a different story.

U.S.: Clinton Calls for Strengthened IAEA Powers

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday called for strengthening the authority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect suspected nuclear-related facilities and ruled out lifting sanctions against North Korea until it took 'verifiable and irreversible' steps toward denuclearisation.

US-Iran: Congress Begins Pressing Sanctions Legislation

Friday, October 16, 2009

As the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama prepares for a critical series of talks about the fate of Iran's nuclear programme, Congress has begun moving long-pending legislation to impose new unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

U.S.: Public Sceptical and Hawkish on Iran

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press.

Politics: Leaked Iran Paper Based on Intel that Split IAEA

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Excerpts of the internal draft report by the staff of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published online last week show that the report's claims about Iranian work on a nuclear weapon is based almost entirely on intelligence documents which have provoked a serious conflict within the agency.

US-Iran: Geneva Talks Seen as Potential Breakthrough

Friday, October 02, 2009

While experts here are being deliberately tentative in their assessments of Thursday's meeting in Geneva between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany (P5+1), there appears to be a growing sense that the results could lay the basis for a long-sought diplomatic breakthrough.

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