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Why the West Should Keep Nukes Out of Iran's Hands

There is still a great deal of gray area surrounding Iran's nuclear intentions. It is impossible to know definitively whether Iran is merely considering building a nuclear weapon, whether they have decided to stop at “breakout capacity,” or whether…

Iran Assassination Plot Is More Complex Than We Think

The plot is certainly odd: Mansour Arbabsiar, an Iranian-American used car salesman living in Texas, receives $100,000 from Iran and works together with a low-level member of Iran’s elite Qods Force, Ali Gholam Shakuri, and a Mexican drug cartel to…

The U.S. is Right to Give Israel Bunker Buster Bombs

The recently leaked U.S. decision to give Israel 55 GBU-28 Hard Target Penetrators (commonly referred to as “bunker busters”) in November 2009 is not as big of a deal with regard to U.S.-Israel-Iran relations as some reports have made it out to be.…

Why the West Should Keep Iran Non-Nuclear

There is still a great deal of gray area surrounding Iran's nuclear intentions. It is impossible to know definitively whether Iran is merely considering building a nuclear weapon, whether they have decided to stop at “breakout capacity,” or whether…

Ahmadinejad's “Subsidy Smart Plan” Is a Failure

Contrary to what most mainstream U.S. newspapers and The Economist have printed in recent months, Iran's subsidy reforms have been a failure thus far. This is not because Iran does not need subsidy reform (it certainly does), but because the reforms…