Reassessing the Iranian nuclear threat
When Turkey and Brazil voted against sanctioning Iran on its nuclear enrichment programme, most thought they were motivated by pique against the US. But there was more to it: Turkey and Brazil’s...
View ArticleIran: An opportunity for BRICS
The winter months saw the controversy over Iran’s nuclear programme become dangerously heated. Western media were encouraged to interpret recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) findings as...
View ArticleAll to play for in Moscow
This is turning into a roller-coaster year for those who pray that the Western fear of Iran’s uranium enrichment programme will not result in conflict. The year opened with Israeli leaders baying for...
View ArticleWill the Iranian nuclear dispute end?
Readers who recall that in 2009 a new U.S. President seemed eager to defuse the West’s quarrel with Iran over its nuclear activities may wonder why we are all still waiting for white smoke. I have a...
View ArticleU.S.-Iran: Another victory for diplomacy?
Observers of the relationship between the U.S. and Iran have just lived through one of those rare weeks when the coloured glass in the kaleidoscope shifts and the outlook changes. It has been a...
View ArticleIran-P5+1 interim accord: An assessment
The understandings reached by the foreign ministers of Iran, the U.S., Russia, UK, France, China and Germany, as well as the High Representative of the European Union, in the early hours of November...
View ArticleIran-P5+1 Interim Accord: An Assessment
The understandings reached by the foreign ministers of Iran, the US, Russia, the UK, France, China and Germany, as well as the High Representative of the European Union, in the early hours of November...
View ArticleWill Iran come in from the Cold?
Sometimes an ill wind appears to blow somebody some good. The emerging perception in parts of Europe, notably the United Kingdom, and in the United States that the Islamic “caliphate” stretching from...
View ArticleThe end of the Iran nuclear journey?
The joint statement issued on April 2 in Lausanne did not lie—earlier that day, the EU High Representative, the Foreign Minister of Iran and the six other parties to the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear...
View ArticleIran sanctions: journey’s end
More than three years ago, I wrote in my column for Gateway House, that “There are signs that the U.S., UK and Germany, if not France under President Sarkozy, are moving towards the Russian and Chinese...
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