Archive for the ‘Iran Nuclear Issue’ Category

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili have agreed to open talks between the six world powers and Iran on October 1. The meeting will bring together representatives of the UK, China, Russia, France, the US, and Germany with top officials from Tehran in a location yet to be [...]

By Shane McCarthy, CNI Staff Writer shane@cnionline.org The disparity between American and Israeli interests was once again illuminated in a recent meeting between Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem. In a joint news conference at the King David Hotel, Mr. Barak stated that he did not approve of America’s [...]

Brian Doyle CNI Staff Writer brian@cnionline.org Debate over how to respond to Iran’s nuclear program was intensified by a German magazine’s recent report in which unnamed German intelligence officials alleged Iran is only six months from a nuclear bomb. While some on the right in both the US and Israel will seize this shrinking time [...]

By Brian Doyle CNI Staff Writer brian@cnionline.org As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen stated recently, a strike on Iran would destabilize the whole Middle East. After Vice President Biden’s remarks this weekend that the US would not stand in the way of an Israeli strike, Iranian leaders made clear that they [...]

Israeli Whispering Campaign on Iran It seems an Israeli whispering campaign is afoot to lay the foundation for preemptive military action against Iran. A recentSenate Foreign Relations Committee report on Iran’s nuclear program contains comments from unidentified (though undoubtedly Israeli) foreign officials questing the US intelligence community’s work on Iran’s nuclear program. They contend US [...]