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Questions on the impact of Iran's likely nuclear power on the United States are raised. Iran's role in Iraq's unstable situation and the effect of the U.S. support to pro-democracy dissidents on Iran's policies are also discussed.

Time is running out on Iran. Decisions are being made in Washington and Tehran that could put the two countries on a collision course in the new year. The dominant [...]

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Board of Governors met on 6-8 March 2006 and discussed the new report on Iran by Director General Mohammed ElBaradei, following which the report was sent to the UN Security Council for deliberation. On 29 March 2006, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a statement calling on Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program and giving the IAEA 30 days to report back.

The news that Saudi Arabia, together with its five GCC partners, has offered to supply enriched uranium to Iran has taken many observers in the region by surprise. It should [...]

Iran has continued to make further progress on its nuclear programs in defiance of UN Security Council demands. Evidence of this progress has emerged even as a May 23 deadline [...]

As September drew to a close, European and Iranian negotiators were attempting to reach an agreement regarding ground rules for negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. The permanent five members of [...]

On June 6, six countries, including the United States, offered a new package of incentives and disincentives to Iran designed to persuade it to end its gas centrifuge-based uranium-enrichment program. [...]

After several weeks of contentious debate, the UN Security Council March 29 adopted a presidential statement calling on Iran to resolve the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) concerns about its [...]

THERE are various recipes for making nuclear weaponry. Some can be carried out only by experienced master bomb makers. Others are easy enough for beginners to have a go at. [...]

A new drone poses with the president Iran pockets Bushehr and plays on IT WAS meant as a marker for the world's readiness to accept Iran's right to benefit from [...]

Why we can no longer remain on the sidelines in the struggle for regime change in Iran. Two schools of thought have traditionally competed to determine how America should approach [...]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has had his last chance THE six countries trying to talk Iran out of its dangerous nuclear ambitions--America, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China--face an unappetising choice. Iran [...]

Tucking in, but with no thanks to Ahmadinejad But sanctions are not yet painful enough to change Iran's nuclear policy 'I PRAY to God that I will never know about […]

Iran isn't making the work of its appeasers very easy. If only it suspended uranium enrichment, the world's various acronymed bodies would probably toast the mullahs as 'strategic partners' and […]

Iran is letting the British sailors and marines go. What did the whole affair mean? IN BRITAIN, which says its servicemen were grabbed while going about their lawful business, there […]

Iran's energy sector may feel the pinch RELATIONS between the US and Iran have deteriorated after a few months of relative calm. On 21 February, Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the [...]

IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROJECT can probably be stopped by significantly cutting its oil income. A meaningful decline in this main source of Iran's income would force its leadership to choose between [...]

Tony Blair's speech at the Guildhall adroitly placed him ahead of the news. By reiterating his support for dialogue with Iran and Syria on the same day that George W. [...]

LAST WEEK, the Bush administration adopted a new approach to the crisis with Iran over Tehran's pursuit of uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice offered to [...]