US-led Iran sanctions can harm/alienate upper and middle-income Iranians
via Lobe Log Virginia tech economist and Lobe Log contributor Djavad Salehi-Isfahani adds to the growing list of reasons why the Obama administration’s Iran sanctions policy is counterproductive in...
View ArticleWill the US choose war or peace with Iran?
via Lobe Log The National Iranian American Council’s Reza Marashi, who served at the Office of Iranian Affairs at the US Department of State during the transition from the Bush to Obama administration,...
View ArticleWhere is the Iran sanctions regime heading?
via Lobe Log I don’t know the answer to the question I’ve posted above, but today’s news may offer an indication: The EU imposes new sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program and reaffirms its said...
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Anthony Cordesman: Give Diplomacy Priority While Preserving Security
via Lobe Log Anthony Cordesman, a highly respected military and security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), writes in a co-authored CSIS report that while the US...
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Ledeen Begins his Pivot
via Lobe Log Michael Ledeen, a neoconservative polemicist and long-time Iran hawk who joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies after leaving the American Enterprise Institute in 2008, is being...
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Major US-UK Tiff Over Legality of Iran Strike
via Lobe Log Amidst reports that Great Britain has denied the US military use of important British bases for an assault against Iran, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters on Friday...
View ArticleIran Sanctions Leading US Toward Military Conflict
via Lobe Log The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has updated its Iran Sanctions page to include more individuals and entities, including Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic...
View ArticleRecapping Iran Sanctions Logic Ahead of Talks
via Lobe Log by Jasmin Ramsey The following quote from this Washington Post article on last week’s nuclear talks with Iran stood out despite it being a regurgitation of past statements: “I don’t want...
View ArticleIs President Obama listening to Iranian-Americans, too?
via Lobe Log It’s the Iranian New Year (Nowruz) and on this day I’m missing my family, as well as thinking of the millions of Iranians who are dealing with the allegedly unintended consequences of the...
View ArticleToward Better US-Iran Relations
via LobeLog by Derek Davison The challenge of rebuilding the once strong but now broken ties between the United States and Iran was the topic of a June 3 Atlantic Council event, “US-Iran Relations:...
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