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

This article argues that Barack Obama's conciliatory tone has caused difficulties for the hardliners in Iran. Obviously, the US and Iran still have major foreign policy differences and the US is still determined to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons. However, Obama has made it clear that he wishes to improve relations with Iran and make the relationship more nuanced and less one of simple mutual...

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...

The greatest foreign policy challenge the Obama administration faces is Iran. The problem posed by Iran is compounded by the sheer number of ways in which Iran is a problem for the US. First and foremost, there is Iran’s nuclear programme. But then there is also Iran’s support for Shiite extremists in Iraq, its role as the major backer of the rejectionists of Hamas and Hezbollah and it...

Britain is to assure Iran that it is "100% committed to diplomacy" to end the impasse over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and is signalling that it expects Barack Obama's administration to follow the same approach. The foreign secretary, David Miliband, will warn in a speech today that "the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran poses the most immediate threat to the stability" of the Middle East....

Barack Obama's second year in office will be tested by an intransigent Iran and North Korea after policy of engagement failed to make breakthroughs

Barack Obama's charismatic aura is obscuring an uncomfortable truth. His foreign policy is in crisis: problems with Iran and Russia are merging into a single, nasty mess. The US president must be tough enough not to be panicked into macho gestures, writes Gideon Rachman

Richard Fernandez writing for Pajamas Media latches onto a significant report about the thinking of President-elect Obama and his team of advisers concerning Iran’s nuclear ambitions. President-elect Barack Obama will offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday. Haaretz, quoting an

BARACK Obama yesterday said Iran should not wait for the next US president to be elected before resolving its dispute with the West over its nuclear programme.

Barack Obama might have little option but to follow George W. Bush's approach on a range of foreign policy issues, including Iran, said Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state