Ullman: Iran 2015: Are 1914 and 1964 Calling?

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Oct 2, 2024

What is Iran thinking now?

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Tehran launched nearly two hundred missiles at Israel on Tuesday. Atlantic Council experts consider the ways that the barrage—which was largely ineffectual—offers a window into Iranian thinking.

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Ullman: Iran 2015: Are 1914 and 1964 Calling?

IranSource
Oct 2, 2024

It’s time Iran’s artists be considered as human rights defenders

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Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston

International recognition of the acute risk creatives face in Iran is necessary to ensure their vital role in advocating for human rights continues.

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Ullman: Iran 2015: Are 1914 and 1964 Calling?

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Sep 28, 2024

Experts react: Hassan Nasrallah is dead. What’s next for Hezbollah, Israel, and Iran?

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On Saturday, Hezbollah confirmed that its leader had been killed in an Israeli air strike. Atlantic Council experts share their insights on what might come next for the already war-torn region.

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Oct 8, 2024

A bipartisan Iran strategy for the next US administration—and the next two decades

As tensions spike in the Middle East, how should the next US president approach Iran and its network of proxies including Hezbollah and Hamas? With a strategy that can be maintained for decades, by administrations of either party. A bipartisan, expert working group lays out the details.

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Blinded Iranian activist Elaheh Tavakolian: ‘We lost our eyes on this path. Let us not lose sight of our goal’

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Holly Dagres

Holly Dagres sits down with blinded Iranian activist Elahe Tavakolian to share her story and discuss the situation in Iran and what the West needs to do.

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Nov 20, 2024

2025 will be a decisive year for Iran’s nuclear program

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Danny Citrinowicz  

Diplomatic deadlines and regional factors will force Iran to decide soon whether to strike a deal or seek a nuclear weapon. Either choice will have major ripple effects.

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Nov 20, 2024

How to wrestle with an ayatollah 

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Khosro Sayeh Isfahani

If one looks closely, the ancient Persian sport of wrestling might have answers to understanding how to contain Iran

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Mar 25, 2015

Ullman: Iran 2015: Are 1914 and 1964 Calling?

By Harlan Ullman

Atlantic Council Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for the Huffington Post on the global implications of a nuclear deal with Iran:

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MENASource

Mar 25, 2015

Iran’s Free Pass in the Region

By Frederic C. Hof

In his recent Nowruz address to the people of Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said something I have heard more than once from Iranian counterparts in track two (unofficial) discussions: “The negotiations with America are about the nuclear program and nothing else, everyone should know this . . .

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In the News

Mar 20, 2015

Kroenig on Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities

By Matthew Kroenig

The Weekly Standard quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Kroenig on Iran’s nuclear capabilities and what a nuclear deal would mean:

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In the News

Mar 20, 2015

Burns: Will Congress Torpedo Obama’s Iran Deal?

By Nicholas Burns

Member of the Atlantic Council’s Board of Directors Nicholas Burns writes for the Boston Globe on the tension between the Obama administration and members of Congress over the Iran nuclear deal:

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In the News

Mar 18, 2015

Slavin: Why Iran Negotiators Welcome Spring Break in Tehran, United States

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin writes for Al Jazeera on how the easing of outside pressure could create a better atmosphere for negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran:

Iran

In the News

Mar 17, 2015

Goldwyn on a Nuclear Deal with Iran and the Global Oil Market

By David Goldwyn

Reuters quotes Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Nonresident Senior Fellow David Goldwyn on how a nuclear deal with Iran and the lifting of economic sanctions against Tehran could affect the global oil market:

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New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2015

Strange Bedfellows: Saudi Arabia, Israel Oppose Iran Nuclear Deal for Different Reasons

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Saudis worry about regional power, Israelis about an ‘existential threat,’ say analysts Saudi Arabia and Israel find themselves in the same camp as opponents of a nuclear deal with Iran, but the Sunni kingdom and Jewish state have very different reasons for their opposition. Israelis are concerned mainly with a nuclear-armed Iran, while the Saudis […]

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Event Recap

Mar 16, 2015

A Nuclear Deal, Iran’s Regional Role and US Relations with the Gulf

By South Asia Center

On March 16, the Iran Task Force hosted a discussion on the impact of a possible Iran nuclear deal on Iran’s regional role and US relations with the Arab states across the Gulf. Speakers included Richard LeBaron, Alireza Nader, and Ilan Goldenberg. Barbara Slavin moderated the panel.  

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MENASource

Mar 12, 2015

Political Legitimacy: Practicing that which is Preached

By Frederic C. Hof

A recent MENASource article addressed the issue of chronic political illegitimacy—the absence of consensus, derived from consent of the governed, on the rules of the political game—that plagues most of the states of the Arab world. Now that forty-seven Senate Republicans have affixed their signatures to an “open letter” purporting to instruct the Islamic Republic […]

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In the News

Mar 12, 2015

Slavin: Europeans Worry Senate Letter Gives Iran Edge in Nuclear Talks

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin writes for Al Monitor on how European partners in the Iran talks feel the letter signed by forty-seven GOP senators this week has made the negotiations with Iran more difficult:

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