22/04/2007 Article

Dancing with Wolves: The Importance of Talking to Your Enemies

/ Michael Ancram

Tags: Ceasefires, Dialogue, Diplomacy, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mediation, Middle East, War on terrorism

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A lecture delivered at the Middle East Institute, 1761 N St NW, Washington DC, on April 19, 2007 at 12 noon “It is often a

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25/02/2007 Article

Dissent in the Pentagon

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Tags: Bush Administration, Iran

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It has been two weeks since chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, publicly disagreed with the Bush administration’s assessment of “Iranian

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05/02/2007 News

Time to Talk to Iran

Tags: Dialogue, Iran, NPT

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Military attack on Iran would have disastrous consequences warns new report [PDF]: Coalition urges new diplomatic push to avoid crisis. On the one year anniversary of

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22/01/2007 Article

Talking to Tehran

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Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Iran, Neocons

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For several months now, the United States and Israel have promoted what could be described as a two-tiered narrative in confronting Iran. That coming from

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14/01/2007 Article

Iraq: Beyond the Gallows

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Tags: Iran, Iraq, War in Iraq

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Many observers have assumed that Saddam Hussein’s execution was yet another Iraqi “milestone” timed to serve the needs of a struggling American president. Milestone it

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18/12/2006 Article

The Martial Plan

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Iran, Middle East

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Washington’s liberal, progressive, Democrat-oriented, anti-Bush newspaper — the Washington Post — has weighed in on a prospective war against Iran. They’re all for it. If

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07/12/2006 Article

If the US Should Talk to Iran, Why Shouldn’t it Talk to Hamas?

/ Paul Woodward

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians

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James Baker threw down the gauntlet to President Bush yesterday when he commended the Iraq Study Group report as “probably the only bipartisan report he’s

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01/06/2006 Article

Defend the NPT

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Iran, NPT

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Prospect, June, 2006 The struggle with Iran over nuclear issues is usually portrayed in the west as a reasonable effort to force Iran to comply

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05/01/2006 Article

Wagging the Wolf

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Iran

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Bitterlemons, January 5, 2006 To help explain the Middle East, a senior leader of an organization that my government describes as “terrorist” recently told me

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