IISS 2007 Regional Security Summit Press Coverage
- December 12th - - Mehr News Agency - Rafsanjani urges amity among factions ahead of Majlis polls
Rafsanjani expressed regret that Iran as a main regional player didn’t participate in the Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain last week.
“When I noticed that Iran was not present at the Manama conference I started thinking that how it is possible to establish security without Iran. Why the U.S. defense secretary should be the star of the conference and give strategy to regional countries.”
In the Manama conference U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Iran the main...
- December 12th - - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Verdrängte Fragen
Wer sich einen Eindruck von der Stimmung am Persisch-Arabischen Golf verschaffen will, dem bietet die Sicherheitskonferenz "Manama Dialogue", die das Londoner Institut für Strategische Studien (IISS) jährlich in Bahrein veranstaltet - 2007 zum vierten Mal -, eine gute Gelegenheit. Die Lage im Irak, die Bedeutung Irans für die Staaten des Golfkooperationsrates (Saudi-Arabien, Kuweit, Qatar, Bahrein, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Oman) und die Rolle Amerikas für Stabilität und...
- December 12th - - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Sidestepping the issues
The Manama Dialogue, hosted every year in Bahrain by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is a good opportunity to check the climate in the Gulf States. 2007 was the security conference’s fourth year. The situation in Iraq, the significance of Iran for the Gulf Cooperation Council States (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman) and the role of America in the stability and security of the entire region are recurrent themes. ...
- December 12th - - New York Times - White House Is Confident of Broad Support on Iran
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, visiting Bahrain on Saturday, described the assessment as being “explicit that Iran is keeping its options open and could restart its nuclear weapons program at any time — I would add, if it has not done so already.” of Defense Robert M. Gates, visiting Bahrain on Saturday, described the assessment as being “explicit that Iran is keeping its options open and could restart its nuclear weapons program at any time — I would add,...
- December 12th - - Press TV - 'Iraq will never support new war'
Al-Hashemi noted that the absence of Iran at the global security conference recently held in Manama, Bahrain, was a loss for the meeting. He dismissed speculations regarding competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia over Iraq. He also insisted that the ongoing standoff over Iran's nuclear case could be
- December 12th - - New York Times - Losing Weight in the Gulf
I’ve been at a security conference in the tiny Gulf state of Bahrain, attended by defense officials and analysts from all over the world, and all the buzz has been about the latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. It has left every Arab and European expert I’ve spoken to baffled — not in its conclusions, but by why those conclusions were framed in a way that is sure to reduce America’s leverage to negotiate with Tehran.
