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Update: Both clips have been added to this post after the jump.
According to a Bloomberg Businessweek report, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, made the following statements about Iran during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria:
- “It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” Dempsey said in an interview with CNN’s [...]
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Hawks on Iran
By Jasmin Ramsey | Friday, February 17th, 2012
In response to a worrying trend in U.S. politics, Lobe Log publishes “Hawks on Iran” every Friday. Our posts highlight militaristic commentary and confrontational policy recommendations about Iran from a variety of sources including news articles, think tanks and pundits.
*Perhaps we spend too much time on hawkish commentary about Iran in the media and not [...]
Tags: Alan Dershowitz, Daniel Schwammenthal, Foreign Policy Initiative, foundation for defense of democracies, Hawks on Iran, iran, Iran threat, Iran War, israel, James Kirchick, Jamie Fly, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Singh, regime change, sanctions
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Last week, Professor Daniel Serwer criticized me in the Atlantic for not including nonviolence in my brief survey of the Syrian intervention debate. I am not sure that much had been written about nonviolence in that context at the time of my post’s publication. Even if it had, my non-exhaustive commentary compilation was specifically focused [...]
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Since 2001, Daryl Kimball has been the the executive director of the Arms Control Association, a private, non-profit membership organization dedicated to public education and support of effective arms control measures. Mr. Kimball’s expertise includes nuclear nonproliferation issues, the Nonproliferation Treaty and he is a frequent commentator on Iran’s nuclear program. He recently took the time to [...]
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Editor’s note: This week, in place of our weekly roundup of hawkish commentary about Iran, we’re highlighting two articles regarding the U.S.’s Iran policy that shouldn’t be missed.
While discussing Natasha Bahrami and Trita Parsi’s recent article in the Boston Review (also a must-read), professor of international politics at Tufts University, Daniel Drezner, notes that the [...]
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Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, offers a critique of the bipartisan senate resolution to be presented on Thursday, which pressures the Obama administration to rule out containment options for Iran and limits diplomatic options. Writes Mr. Kimball:
1. Iran is already “nuclear capable”, according to U.S. intelligence community assessments and the purpose [...]
Tags: Arms Control Association, containment, Daryl Kimball, diplomacy, iran, Iran nuclear, iran nuclear enrichment, nuclear capable, nuclear iran, Obama, P5+1, u.s. intelligence
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Last month Jim pointed out that Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) were working on a bipartisan resolution that would put the Senate on record as ruling out a strategy of containment for Iran. “All options must be on the table when it comes to Iran — except for one, and that is [...]
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As the humanitarian horrors in Syria continue, the debate about foreign intervention intensifies. Today the Daily Telegraph published a pro-intervention blog post by Michael Weiss, who heads Communications and Public Relations at the Henry Jackson Society, a self-described “non-partisan” think tank with neoconservative affiliations.
Weiss mainly focuses on Israel-Palestine and human rights in the Middle East. [...]
Tags: Brookings, Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy Initiative, foundation for defense of democracies, Henry Jackson Society, iran, Just Journalism, Michael Weiss, neoconserative, Paul Pillar, Russia, Shadi Hamid, Shibley Telhami, Syria, Syria intervention, Syria poll
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Iran analyst Patrick Disney examines why it might be a US or Israeli red line for Iran to install advanced centrifuges at the Fordow facility and explains why the US will continue pushing Iran to relinquish its stockpile of 20% enriched material at the next round of P5+1 nuclear negotiations:
If you recall, Matthew Kroenig and [...]
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Hawks on Iran
By Jasmin Ramsey | Friday, February 3rd, 2012
In response to a worrying trend in U.S. politics, Lobe Log publishes “Hawks on Iran” (formerly “Iran Hawk Watch”) every Friday. Our posts highlight militaristic commentary and confrontational policy recommendations about Iran from a variety of sources including news articles, think tanks and pundits.
*This week’s must-read is “Envisioning a Deal With Iran” by William [...]
Tags: Bipartisan Policy Cetner, clifford may, Hawks on Iran, iran, Iran nuclear, Iran threat, Iran War, israel, James Woolsey, Luers, Michael Ledeen, Obama, Pickering, regime change, sanctions
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