Iran (11/2)
Our IIF discussion this Thursday will be about Iran, and our moderator will be a relative newcomer to our group, Wayne Gross. Although there have been a number of recent developments, the issues have changed little since early this year; so I am forwarding the e-mail I sent out when we talked about Iran as a part of the Great Decisions 2006 discussion series (see below). I am also sending along some additional background information:
From The Economist, here are a Backgrounder and a link to recent articles on Iran:Here is a recent report on Iran from the Congressional Research Service:From The NewsHour on PBS, here is an interview in which Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations defends his country's right to a civilian nuclear program:Here is an op/ed piece that appeared last spring in The Wall Street Journal:Here is a link to articles dealing with Iran from the Council on Foreign Relations:From the Foreign Policy Association web site, here are a link to several useful items and a quiz about Iran:Finally, I am including a link to something I think many of you will find useful or interesting: the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons:Since this is a pdf file, to read it you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for free; here is the link:http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Just click on the arrow beside "Choose A Platform" in step one, select your operating system from the drop-down menu, then click on "Download" in step two.
Relations with Iran remain an important and difficult aspect of U.S. foreign policy. I hope you will join us at Villa this Thursday evening as we discuss a subject that should be of interest to us all.
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles R. Hubert
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:27 PM
Subject: Great Decisions 2006; Articles on Iran
Our topic for the second discussion in this Great Decisions series will be "Dealing with Iran." Issues will include: Iran's nuclear program; its links to a number of international terrorist groups, most noticeably Hezbollah; its involvement in post-war Iraq; political reform in the country; and the possibility of the resumption of diplomatic relations with the U.S. I am sending along some background material.
To begin with, here are some items that attempt to explain Iran's two-tiered political system:
Here are a couple of timelines of events in Iran's nuclear program:
Here is a speech given last November at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies by R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Under-Secretary for Political Affairs:
Here is President Bush's statement on the Iranian election:
Here is a link to an article from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which was referred to in the Great Decisions Briefing Book:
Here are links to a few of the articles listed at the end of this section of the Briefing Book:
Here are two items that were sent to me by Jason DeJoannis, who moderates the Tuesday Great Decisions group at Evening at Emory:
Terry Gross interview with Joseph Cirincione, the director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on NPR's Fresh Air: The New Brinksmanship: Iran's Nuclear Threat
Article by Laura Secor from the November 21 issue of The New Yorker: FUGITIVES: Young Iranians Confront the Collapse of the Reform Movement
From The Economist, here are a Backgrounder and a link to recent articles on Iran:
Here are a few recent items from several newspapers and magazines:
And finally, if you still haven't got enough, here are three sites with links to numerous articles on Iran:
posted by IIF BlogMeister @ 8:36 AM
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