Con Coughlin’s Intelligence Failure Redux: Iran-Turkey deal

This is a guest-post by Dr. Serkan Zorba, a Turkish assistant professor of physics at Whittier College. The Daily Telegraph foreign editor and correspondent Con Coughlin wrote a piece on September 14, 2010, in the British newspaper alleging that the… Continue Reading →

Costs of Sanctions Could Trigger “Military Option”

As the U.S., British and French UN envoys call for expediting the process to set up  a UN panel to monitor Iran’s compliance with sanctions, neoconservatives in Washington are increasingly focusing their attention on the countries which continue to trade with… Continue Reading →

Chicago Council Poll: U.S. Public Against Attacking Iran

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs just released their wide-ranging biennial 2010 survey on Americans’ attitudes on U.S. foreign policy. With Iran such a hot issue these days, it’s no surprise a number of questions focused on U.S.-Iran relations and other… Continue Reading →

WINEP’s David Pollock Challenges Zogby Poll Findings on Arab Support for Iran

ForeignPolicy.com has been been the venue for an interesting exchange between David Pollock, a senior fellow at the neoconservative Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) and Shibley Telhami, a professor at the University of Maryland and a nonresident senior… Continue Reading →