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- Author: Barry R. Posen
- Publication Date: 03-2006
- Content Type: Policy Brief
- Institution: MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract: The intense concern about Iran's nuclear energy program reflects the judgment that, should it turn to the production of weapons, an Iran with nuclear arms would gravely endanger the United States and the world. An Iranian nuclear arsenal, policymakers fear, could touch off a regional arms race while emboldening Tehran to undertake aggressive, even reckless, actions.
- Topic: International Relations, Security, Nuclear Weapons, Politics
- Political Geography: United States, Iran
- Author: Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
- Publication Date: 01-2006
- Content Type: Policy Brief
- Institution: MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract: The surprise victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Iranian Presidential election last June brings up the question of whether the reform movement is dead in Iran. Does Ahmadinejad's success imply that Iranians have economic demands only? Who now are the supporters of reform?
- Topic: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization
- Political Geography: Iran
- Author: Ali Mostashari
- Publication Date: 09-2005
- Content Type: Policy Brief
- Institution: MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract: Iran is now an important focal point for U.S. foreign policy. Yet many have argued that the United States lacks a coherent foreign policy on Iran, amounting to no more than an enormous list of “evils”: namely, that Iran exports its radical Islamist revolution, supports Hezbollah and Hamas and actively opposes the Middle East peace process, is building nuclear and biological weapons capacity, was involved in the bombings of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires and the Khobar towers in Saudi Arabia, provides Al-Qaeda with safe passage and refuge, helps insurgents in Iraq, assassinates its own dissidents and oppresses its people, and so on.
- Topic: International Relations, Security, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism
- Political Geography: United States, Iraq, Iran, Middle East, Saudi Arabia