There were three messages sent by the IAEA's Board of Governors' Iran resolution on Thursday. Two messages were for Iran and the other was a message to Israel.
The recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency makes it clear that Iran continues to enrich uranium in violation of Security Council resolutions, and it continues to obstruct the IAEA investigation mandated by those resolutions.
An Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear installations could put international nuclear inspectors at risk and would likely put the International Atomic Energy Agency in a tricky diplomatic situation.
The perpetuation of the Assad regime is critical to Iran's efforts to maintain its regional influence, and Tehran has demonstrated it will do whatever it can to aid Assad and his regime.
It may well be that the absence of a central organizing principle for the Middle East is a greater threat to many countries, including Israel, than any specific threat currently in the headlines, including Iran's nuclear program.
No country stands to lose more from the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria than its lone regional ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Syria is too important as an Iranian ally for Tehran to engage in a political transition process that would result in the ousting of the Assad regime.
In “The Twilight War,” government historian David Crist examines Washington's missed opportunities with Iran and the problematic fact that Iranians who want to talk to America can’t deliver, and those who can deliver don’t want to talk to America.
A nuclear deal with Tehran that affirms Iran’s right to an exclusively peaceful nuclear program can create more hospitable conditions for Iranians to secure democracy and human rights.
In his recent statement to the IAEA's Board of Governors, Iranian Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh suggested that Iran is not looking to cooperate during the next stage of negotiations over its nuclear program.
















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