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Keeping All Options on the Table: A Roadmap to Negotiation or War?

by Farideh Farhi, Erik Leaver | Mar 5, 2007

In the light of the passing of the late February deadline imposed by the UN Security Council Resolution 1737 and Iran’s refusal to comply, Washington is abuzz with wildly diverse plans regarding how to deal with Iran. Just days after the deadline, on February 24, Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated the Bush administration’s long standing position that “all options are on the table" if Tehran does not suspend uranium enrichment activities. On the other side of the spectrum, the announcement that the U.S. will attend the regional security conference held in Baghdad on March 10th and is open to talks with the representatives of Iran who will also be attending has highlighted the possibility of direct negotiations between the two countries

Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World

by John Feffer, Michael Shank | Feb 16, 2007

Iran in Iraq?

by John Feffer, Stephen Zunes | Feb 14, 2007

Faced with growing public opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq, the Bush administration has been desperately trying to divert attention to Iran. Washington has gone so far as to make a series of dubious and unfounded charges that blame the Iranian government for the difficulties facing American forces fighting the Iraqi insurgency.

Iran: Thinking the Unthinkable

by John Feffer, Conn Hallinan | Jan 15, 2007

Time to Lift Iran’s Sanctions

by Roger Howard, Emily Schwartz Greco | Jan 4, 2007

Conjuring images of nuclear terrorism and the "annihilation" of the Jewish state, the spectre of an Iranian bomb readily haunts the Western imagination. But Tehran’s nuclear ambitions also pose a very different type of challenge to America. This challenge is not years from fruition, as a warhead still seems to be. It is instead already unfolding.

The Democrats & Iran

by John Feffer, Conn Hallinan | Dec 9, 2006

As the dust begins to settle from the mid-term elections, popular thinking is that, over the next two years, the Democrats will force the Bush administration to edge away from the unilateral militarism that has entrapped the nation in two open-ended wars.

The United States and Lebanons Civil Strife

by Emily Schwartz Greco, Stephen Zunes | Dec 6, 2006

The ongoing popular challenge to the pro-Western Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora marks yet another setback in the Bush administration’s attempt to impose a new order on the Middle East more compatible with perceived U.S. strategic interests.

Central Asia Between Competition and Cooperation

by Yu Bin, John Feffer | Nov 29, 2006

Great power competition in Central Asia ebbs and flows in a timeless and tireless fashion. Unlike in Europe and East Asia during the Cold War and after, the fault line for the current jockeying for position in Central Asia between Washington and Beijing is not easily discernible. Instead, fluidity, uncertainty, and even outright reversal of fortunes among the major players have been the norm.

Public Must Say "No" to War in Iran

by Phyllis Bennis | Nov 2, 2006

A new U.S. intelligence report, representing the consensus of all 16 intelligence agencies, comes to the same conclusion many have known for a long time: The Iraq War isn’t making us safer. It’s putting us all at greater risk. It’s making another terrorist attack more likely. The report is another piece of evidence that the Bush administration is lying about the war.

Beware Empires in Decline

by John Feffer, Michael Klare | Oct 13, 2006

The common wisdom circulating in Washington these days is that the United States is too bogged down in Iraq to consider risky military action against Iran orÂGod forbidÂNorth Korea. Policy analysts describe the U.S. military as Âover-burdenedÂ or Âstretched to the limit.Â The presumption is that the Pentagon is telling President Bush that it can’t really undertake another major military contingency.