Posted in Intelligence, Iran, Michael Rubin, Nuclear on Dec 21st, 2007 Comments Off on Iran: Did coercion work?
From Michael Rubin Dilip Hiro, a London-based author who focuses on Iran and Iraq and a frequent commentator in The Nation, addresses the question “Why Iran Didn’t Cross the Nuclear Weapon Road” in a recent essay (YaleGlobal Online, Dec. 11, 2007) he wrote for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
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Posted in Intelligence, Iran, Nuclear, Stephen Peter Rosen on Dec 7th, 2007 Comments Off on Iran NIE and a prediction
From Stephen Peter Rosen For the most part, the arguments about the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran have been and will be a debate, not about intelligence, but about Bush foreign policy. But the NIE also provides an opportunity to assess our own ability to do assessments, by publicly stating what we think the […]
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Posted in Intelligence, Iran, Matthew Levitt, Nuclear, Sanctions on Dec 7th, 2007 Comments Off on Sanctions on track, despite (and thanks to) Iran NIE
From Matthew Levitt Conventional wisdom, if one reads the daily papers and the unnamed European officials quoted therein, is that a third UN Security Resolution targeting Iran is now highly unlikely in wake of the release of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran’s nuclear intentions and capabilities. The assessment opened with the zinger that […]
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