This is how a pragmatist understands US foreign policy in conjunction with the Iranian nuclear weapons crisis! Yesterday morning I wrote a short commentary on the Obama administration's lack of understanding about Iran and that country's quest to obtain nuclear weapons. The writing was in response to reports of new sanctions being placed on Iran by Washington that were ostensibly designe...

We are told that “experts” have now warned President-elect Barack Obama of a nuclear Iran. Iran poses the greatest foreign policy challenge to Barack Obama, the President-elect, with Tehran on course to produce a nuclear bomb in the first year of an Obama administration, a coalition of top think-tanks gave warning yesterday. Mr Obama must keep his

Reality is Stranger Than Fiction as Iran Plays Marketing 101 If you say it, then it must be so. This is the newest gambit being played by the Iranians, as they announce a two-day meeting to be called "Nuclear Energy For All, Nuclear Weapons For No One." The Iranian nuclear conference is scheduled to begin just days after the Global Nuclear Security Summit in Washington ends. Read the full story at...

The UN Security Council, at a summit chaired by US President Barack Obama, unanimously approved a resolution yesterday (24 September) that envisaged a world without nuclear weapons.

President Barack Obama on Monday urged Israel to seize an "historic opportunity" to push for peace with the Palestinians and voiced optimism over diplomatic efforts to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons

With all of the other distractions in your face both domestically (#OWS and the 2012 presidential election) and globally (the Eurozone meltdown) it is easy to lose sight of some other major issues! Specifically I speak of Iran and the Iranian nuclear weapons program that continues to move forward, while the U.S. policy under Barack Obama is to use as a deterrent "strong U.N. rebukes" and "tough ne...

This site provides free access to a report by Sir Richard Dalton et al. which was published by Chatham House in December 2008. ISBN 978 1 86203 208 8. The 42 page report critically assesses the current security situation in Iran, issues relating to Iran and the development of nuclear weapons and future directions for UK foreign policy towards Iran.

US President Barack Obama says the world will take 'further steps' against Tehran if it fails to begin negotiating over the future of its nuclear weapons programme later this year

The World Dithers as Tehran Marches On Deadlines come and go, threats are made and not followed through on and the nuclear machinery in Iran continues to churn with nothing, or no one, seemingly willing to stop it. Russia and China (discussed later) put up a false front of desiring to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions, while the United States led by Barack Obama has unfortunately become a paper t...

With the recession and Afghanistan, Iran often drops off the new agenda but the nuclear issue hasn’t gone away. The Washington Post’s article today about the recently revealed nuclear facility at Qom shows that the plant was almost certainly part of a nuclear weapons programme. The paper reports that communication intercepts revealed that Iran only planned to place 3,000 centrifug...