The North's pursuit of nuclear weapons through uranium enrichment, an alternative to reprocessing plutonium from spent fuel at the Yongbyon reactor, constituted both a material breach of the 1994 Agreed Framework and an enormous challenge to the hope that it could ever be negotiated out of pursuing nuclear weapons. Download PDF

Iran has an interesting take on international law. According to Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki, the UN Security Council's Chapter VII resolution from last December requiring Iran to cease all its uranium enrichment activities is illegal. As he put it Wednesday during a friendly visit in Turkey, "We were against [the resolution] for being illegal and politically motivated."Anyone with even a casual acquaintance with international law should recognize that Mottaki's statement is not merely incorrect. Download PDF

As the Tehran leadership prepares to go to the wire in its confrontation with the international community over the nuclear issue, one thing is clear: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is emerging with his position in the Khomeinist establishment strengthened. Download PDF

If Bill Clinton had unveiled George W. Bush´s Iran policy, we would have called it appeasement. Even when implemented by an infinitely more responsible president, this “fresh start” approach has the potential to reward our avowed enemies, finance worldwide jihadists, teach terrorist fanatics that nuclear brinksmanship pays – and still result in an atomic Tehran. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Iranian leaders have decided to inundate us with news pertaining to its growing defensive capacity. Download PDF

The Bush administration made a deal with this nation, India, to provide it with civilian nuclear technology. In the process, the administration effectively let India off the hook for its decades-old nuclear weapons program and made an exception to its otherwise strict refusal to provide civilian nuclear technology to nations that do not abide by certain in-ternational guidelines. The result, critics have asserted, is that other na-tions may be encouraged to follow India's path and that the nuclear non-proliferation "regime" has therefore been damaged. Download PDF

In recent weeks, Russia has distanced itself from positions on the Middle East that it once held in common with the U.S. and the European Union.Russia may have several aims in pur-suing this new Middle East policy. Among them, keeping the price of oil high will certainly accrue to Russia’s short-term advantage. Russia may sense an opportunity to increase its standing in its own backyard, at the expense of the power of its putative Western allies. Most foolhardy of all, Russia may be trying to placate Islamist extremists for the sake of its own security—a policy that is doomed to fail. Download PDF

The trouble in Iran is like the Ravel’s bolero, but only in part: always the same tune, but fewer variations. Download PDF

After reading the reports of the In-ternational Atomic Energy Agency's decision last Saturday to refer Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council it is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Download PDF Descargar PDF

On the surface, Iran appears to have bested the international community in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. As former Secretary of State Colin Powell has observed, after two years of fruit-less negotiation, the international community is no closer to halting Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons. Instead, the great powers endlessly debate where and when a diplomatic showdown will take place while Iran resumes its nuclear research. In es-sence, the world is fiddling while Rome burns. The West has one ace left to play before a final showdown looms. Extending NATO membership to Israel could convince Iran’s Mul-lahs that developing a nuclear capa-bility is not in their interest. Download PDF Descargar PDF

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