The Arab awakening is changing fronts in the proxy battles between Saudi Arabia and Iran as the two rivals vie for greater influence in a new Middle East.
As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the UN General Assembly in New York, a number of Iranians are frustrated by the reluctance of Western journalists to ask tough questions about Ahmadinejad’s domestic policies.
Over the course of the past year, tensions between Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have increased.
A number of critical issues are making the relationship between the usually discrete International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors meeting and their General Conference particularly noteworthy.
The decision by Iranian President Ahmadinejad to release two imprisoned American hikers is primarily part of an attempt to garner good will and demonstrate his political strength.
This month's deliberations by the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors and General Conference will underscore the weakness of the IAEA's leadership in comparison to its member states.
The latest statements made by the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization regarding the country's willingness to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency do not bode well for the success of the recent Russian initiative to reinvigorate multilateral nuclear talks.
Iran’s influence in the Middle East is threatened by domestic divisions between Ayatollah Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad as well as the continuing upheaval in Syria, which could undermine Tehran’s principal ally in the region.
The existing nuclear order faces unprecedented changes. In navigating this changing landscape, the International Atomic Energy Agency faces three principal challenges.
If the United States and the United Arab Emirates seek to move beyond sanctions and military containment to address the deeper roots of the Iranian threat, they may find they have differing long-term interests.
















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