The Daily Talking Points

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 22. Politico: Former Amb. Stuart Eizenstat and Mark Brzezinski, a former Clinton NSC official and Obama campaign adviser, write an opinion piece raising the curtain on the upcoming National Intelligence Estimate… Continue Reading

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

The Daily Talking Points

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 16. Reuters: Louis Charbonneau reports on calls from the U.S., British and French envoys to the UN to expedite the formation a UN panel to monitor Iran’s compliance with sanctions. “We… Continue Reading

The Daily Talking Points

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 9. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Golnaz Esfandiari reports for RFE/RL, a U.S. Congress-funded international broadcaster, that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are increasingly at odds.… Continue Reading