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New Offer to Iran Doesn’t Look Like a Breakthrough; West Should Bend a Bit

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Published December 10, 2012 at 5:59 PM

Iran Wobbles Between Talks And Bombs

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WASHINGTON: Iran is at a crucial point in its nuclear negotiations with the United States and five other world powers.

What it does on the diplomatic front and what it does with its disputed nuclear program are vacillating between the hardline and the conciliatory. This comes as the United States looks post-election for a fresh start in talks with Iran on its alleged pursuit of the bomb. Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States are the six nations negotiating as the so-called P5-plus-1 with Iran. Keep reading →

Published November 19, 2012 at 5:45 AM

New US Talks With Iran Aren’t Likely Til After Elections

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WASHINGTON: The news reports over the weekend that an agreement had been reached for direct Iran-US talks over Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons is one case where there is less than meets the eye.

Even if the news does come on the eve of a crucial debate between US President Barack Obama and his challenger former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the bottom line is that nothing is going to happen with Iran until after the US elections. Keep reading →

Published October 22, 2012 at 6:25 PM

Iran Boosts Enriched Uranium Production, Says UN’s IAEA

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Iran has significantly increased the amount of uranium it is enriching at a level close to weapon-grade and is sanitizing a site where it is suspected of doing bomb-related experiments, according to a classified UN nuclear watchdog report released Thursday and obtained by Breaking Defense.

Iran continues to block inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from doing the work they need to guarantee that Iran does not seek the bomb, This comes at a time when Israel is wrestling with the question of whether to attack Iran in order to neutralize its nuclear program. Keep reading →

Published August 30, 2012 at 8:00 PM

Iran Nuclear Talks Stagger On With Little Progress

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Talks with Iran on its nuclear work have continued but little progress has been made. A diplomat close to the lower-level meeting of technical experts in Istanbul last Tuesday told me “a large gap” remains between the positions of Iran and the six nations negotiating with it – the United States, Russia, China, Britain, Germany and France. Keep reading →

Published July 6, 2012 at 10:15 AM