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