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Opinion: START Won't Stop Nuclear Proliferation
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 10) -- Immediately following last month's election, President Barack Obama renewed his call on the Senate to ratify the New START treaty with Russia in order to "send a signal to the world that we're serious about nonproliferation." The claim that progress in U.S.-Russian arms control will help stop countries like Iran from getting nuclear weapons isn't just an argument offered in support of New START. It's also one of the key premises underlying President Obama's embrace of global nuclear disarmament. There's just one problem: The notion that faster disarmament will lead to greater ...
Opinion: WikiLeaks' Silver Lining
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- While the Obama administration is understandably furious and embarrassed by a massive leak of confidential diplomatic cables, the latest WikiLeaks data dump could actually have a silver lining when it comes to Iran and Israel. Harsh comments against the Tehran government by Arab leaders -- including apparent support for a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities -- should put Iranian leaders on notice that time for a diplomatic deal is growing short. At the same time, Israel should get the message that one of the best ways it can defeat Iran's nuclear and regional ...
Iran Will Build Ten Uranium-Enrichment Sites, Nuclear Official Says
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIran's nuclear chief said his country will build ten uranium-enrichment centers by next year, but Tehran insists the sites will be used not for weapons but only to provide energy to its citizens. Ali Akbar Salehi told a state-run television network that construction on one of the centers will begin in March, with nine more to follow throughout 2011, CNN reported. Earlier this year, Iran announced it had started enriching uranium to 20 percent, a level analysts said could be easily converted to weapons-grade within months, according to Reuters. Tehran said it was forced to raise the levels ...
Report: Iranian Scientist Says He's Escaped US Agents
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 30) -- Iranian state television has broadcast a video of a man who purports to be an abducted Iranian nuclear scientist, and he now claims that he has escaped from U.S. custody. Shahram Amiri -- an expert in radioactive isotopes at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, which has close ties to the Revolutionary Guard -- mysteriously vanished in June 2009, just three day after arriving in Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj pilgrimage. Iran has claimed that the U.S. kidnapped Amiri with the help of the Saudis. But in March, ABC News reported that the scientist had willingly defected and was ...
Opinion: Reset Brings Benefits to US and Russia
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(June 23) -- When Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sits down in the Oval Office Thursday with President Barack Obama, the two leaders should be allowed a moment of self-congratulation. U.S.-Russia relations are on an upswing more than a year after Obama pushed the "reset" button on what had become a very tense relationship between the former Cold War foes. While disagreements continue over such issues as U.S. missile defense in Europe and policies toward the states of the former Soviet Union, much of the venom has disappeared, and there is increasing cooperation on nuclear disarmament and ...
UN Security Council OKs New Sanctions on Iran
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (June 9) -- After a yearlong diplomatic duel crowned with final weeks of creative arm-twisting, the United Nations agreed to a fourth round of sanctions aimed at punishing Iran for its suspect nuclear program. As anticipated, the newly calibrated sanctions regime garnered 12 of 15 votes on the Security Council. Lebanon abstained, while Brazil and Turkey voted against the resolution. That result marked the first time since 2006 that any Security Council member voted against a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran. The U.S. and its allies have a lively suspicion that Iran is ...
UN Approves New Sanctions Against Iran
By not in system - AOL News(June 9) -- The U.N. Security Council approved new sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program Wednesday. With the backing of fellow permanent Security Council members that include Russia and China, U.S. diplomats had expected to win the morning vote after a round of last-minute negotiations on exactly which Iranian individuals and entities to include in the resolution. In addition to those directly tied to the nuclear program, targets of sanctions were to include Iranian financial interests, one of the main Iranian shipping companies, and leaders and businesses linked to the ...
Clinton Says She Expects Iran to 'Pull Some Stunt'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 6) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she thinks Iran will "pull some stunt" in the next few days because it expects further United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program. "They have consistently tried to avoid being held accountable," Clinton told reporters before leaving on a trip to Latin America. The U.S. suspects Iran is enriching uranium to build a nuclear warhead. Tehran denies this and insists on its right to a peaceful nuclear power program. The U.S. hopes to bring a fourth sanctions resolution to a U.N. Security Council vote this ...
Opinion: Sanctions Put Pressure on Iran From Without and Within
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(May 19) -- The Obama administration's multilateral approach to the world's tough problems is beginning to yield some results. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced with a flourish Tuesday that the United States had won Russian and Chinese agreement on a new sanctions resolution against Iran. The resolution would put additional restrictions on Iranian banks and on its efforts to acquire both conventional weapons and nuclear technology. It was introduced in the U.N. Security Council just one day after Iran made important concessions in talks with Brazil and Turkey. Iran ...
Iran Sanctions No Shoo-In at Security Council
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (May 19) -- The U.N. Security Council's initial reaction to a new draft of Iran sanctions Tuesday afternoon seemed to belie U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's confidence from earlier in the day that it would send "an unmistakable message" to Iran. In fact, the body seems primed for a high-level tussle between a push for pressure from the West and one for accommodation from emerging powers. The U.S. draft resolution for the fourth round of sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program was introduced only a day after Iran signed on to a nuclear fuel swap deal with Turkey and ...
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