Our IPS colleague Barbara Slavin has a piece up about the Obama administration’s tough tone against Iran in the wake of yet another crackdown on protests organized by the Green Movement. Slavin hits on the tenor of administration officials’ comments, as well… Continue Reading
Barbara Slavin, writing for IPS, has a post-game analysis of the P5+1 talks that ended yesterday. She then looks at where the talks might be heading when they resume next month in Turkey. While one Western official who attended the… Continue Reading
In engaging Iran, the U.S. has found difficulty in balancing the West’s interest in seeing Iran end its alleged nuclear weapons program with pressure on Iranian leadership to improve human rights, particularly in the wake of the 2009 Iranian presidential… Continue Reading
In an Issue Brief (PDF) from the Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force, Barbara Slavin concludes that “strategic patience” is necessary for the U.S. to further to its strategic interests in the region. Slavin, journalist and author of Bitter Friends, Bosom… Continue Reading