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The Real Iranian Threat in the Gulf

As Iran's posture in the Strait of Hormuz becomes increasingly bellicose, excessive risk aversion that results in a failure of deterrence and feeds the regime's sense of impunity may be just as risky as military action.

Michael Singh

Iran's Strait of Hormuz: A Challenge to U.S. Policy

Threats by Tehran to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz may be bluster, but they also represent a bigger policy challenge to the United States.

Simon Henderson

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On Iran, Pressure Works

Washington and its allies can still prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons through nonmilitary means.

Dennis Ross

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Iran's Regime of Religion

Accumulation of religious capital in the hands of the government mutually influences the nature of the state and the clerical establishment and will continue to do so in Iran's uncertain future.

Mehdi Khalaji

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Israel Is Wide Awake as Decision Time Approaches on Nuclear Iran

Far from sleepwalking into war with Iran, Israelis have their eyes wide open on the nuclear threat and expect others to do the same.

Michael Herzog

Why Syria's Regime Is Doomed

An interview by Bernard Gwertzman, CFR.org Amid mounting violence that has killed more than five thousand in Syria, it is "almost inevitable" the regime of President Bashar al-Assad will collapse, says Dennis Ross, a former senior Middle East adviser to President Obama. "When a regime is entirely dependent on coercion

Dennis Ross

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An Iranian Nuclear Breakout Is Not Inevitable

Much of the rhetoric surrounding the Iranian nuclear impasse has been marked by Tehran's staunch refusal to budge and pessimism among Western analysts that increasingly strong diplomatic and economic measures will ever have their desired effect. Yet several avenues for progress have opened up amid an environment of incrementally effective

Patrick Clawson

Lines in the Sand? Saudi Arabia's Security Meeting with Iran

In Washington, concern is mounting that Iran's potential for troublemaking will now be countered by Saudi actions, which may escalate rather than quiet regional tensions.

Simon Henderson

Actions of U.S. Allies Crucial to Strengthening Impact of Sanctions on Iran

The new financial sanctions against Iran are significant, although key U.S. allies will need to do more to potentially impact the regime's nuclear program decisionmaking.

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Give Iran Good Television

In its present form, VOA's Persian service is a waste of U.S. tax dollars.

Mehdi Khalaji

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Strategic (Mis)communication on Iran

Privately discussing U.S. concerns about military action against Iran is both responsible and necessary. Musing upon them publicly, however, is a strategic error.

Michael Singh

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Iran's Rattling Saber

If recent provocations are any indicator, Tehran might become so fearful of an overt war that it starts one itself.

Mehdi Khalaji

Impact of Sanctioning Iran's Central Bank

The debate over whether to sanction the Central Bank of Iran must consider the effectiveness of such action and the consequences for the world economy.

Patrick Clawson
Simon Henderson

Israel's Closing Window to Strike Iran

Although Israel is in favor of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran, its calculus is also based on how much time is left for military strikes to be effective.

David Makovsky

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Only Threat of Military Action Will Stop Iran

For nuclear diplomacy to succeed, Tehran must believe that the United States will take military action against any effort to build a bomb.

Michael Eisenstadt

Riot Report Will Force Bahrain to Choose a Direction

The Bahrain government needs to act speedily on the findings of the inquiry into this year's troubles to avoid even bigger problems.

Simon Henderson

The Current State of Iranian Affairs: A Candid Discussion

On November 15, 2011, Reza Akhlaghi of Foreign Policy Association interviewed Mehdi Khalaji and Ramin Jahanbegloo regarding the institutionalization of violence in Iran, the regime's foreign policy, internal corruption, and a variety of other issues. The following is an excerpt from their in-depth remarks. AKHLAGHI: In Iran's evolving post-2009 politics

Mehdi Khalaji

Building on the Opportunity of the IAEA Report on Iran

Despite technical setbacks and political indecision, the military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program apparently continue and will become even more challenging over time.

Olli Heinonen

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Obama, Erdogan Find Shared Interests

After a decade of discord with the United States, Turkey has come in from the cold, due largely to shared concerns over Iran.

Soner Cagaptay

Iran's Nuclear Program: "Credible" Evidence of "Continuing" Work on a Bomb

The latest IAEA report should serve to shift the public debate from whether Iran is developing a nuclear weapon to how to stop it.

Simon Henderson

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Viterbi Program on Iran and U.S. Policy

Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran poses the most serious and urgent set of security challenges to the United States and its allies in the greater Middle East. Since the Khomeini revolution in 1979, Iran has sought to export its radical ideology through the use of terrorism, subversion, and support to ideological fellow-travelers throughout the Muslim world.

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Farzin Nadimi

Farzin Nadimi, a Senior Fellow with The Washington Institute, is a Washington-based analyst specializing in the security and defense affairs of Iran and the Persian Gulf region.

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Patrick Clawson

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