Iran releases letter and video of sailors "The Iranian Foreign Ministry is not in charge here," said Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They're...
Britain pushes for international help in Iran "I think it initially would mean other nations taking the step that (Prime Minister Tony) Blair said yesterday about having no bilateral dealings with Iran until this is resolved," said...
Iran Prickly Over British Appeal to UN “There is almost certainly a policy struggle going on in Tehran over how to handle this situation, and the Foreign Ministry is losing. The Revolutionary Guards have the upper hand,'' said Mark...
Teheran risking war just to save face By Dr Patrick Cronin, Director of Studies; Editor, Adelphi Papers
Fury as Iran shows footage of captured sailor Patrick Cronin, director of studies at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, said the crisis represented a counterattack by Tehran radicals after months of international pressure over...
Iran's shift on IAEA may offer 'insurance' "Iran is honouring the minimum legal requirements of the Safeguards Agreement, but giving the IAEA headaches in every legal grey area," said Mark Fitzpatrick, chief nuclear analyst at the...
The Mecca factor By Dr Mamoun Fandy, Senior Fellow for Gulf Security
Iran indicates way out of dispute “While this type of incident can lead to conflict, the government is conscious that it must not let that happen,'' said Dana Allin, a research fellow at the International Institute for...
How to preserve the North Korean nuclear deal Suspicions of North Korean interest in uranium enrichment were aroused by indications that Pakistan's so-called "Dr Strangelove", Abdul Qadeer Khan, had given centrifuges to Pyongyang in...
General: U.S. captures car bomb ringleaders It is difficult to break up an entire network at once, said Toby Dodge, an Iraqi expert with the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. Car bomb rings are often a...
Blair confident sailors were in Iraqi waters Britain and the United States have said the sailors and marines were intercepted Friday just after they completed a search of a civilian vessel in the Iraqi part of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, where...
The Best Way to Run a War French troops have won high praise for their performance under the U.N. flag in Lebanon, keeping on passable terms with both Hizbullah and the Israelis. An EU force has successfully replaced NATO in...
Iran to limit cooperation amid dispute Non-proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick said: "In various ways, Iran is pushing the envelope toward the very edge of what are absolute legal requirements." Fitzpatrick, an analyst at the...
Iran Standoff Deepens As CFR Director of Studies Gary Samore said in a recent speech before the International Institute for Strategic Studies, since the first resolution's passage, “the balance has begun to...
Sailors fall foul of emerging superpower "Getting rid of the Taliban and then getting rid of Saddam, basically gave Iran a free ride in the region," said Mamoun Fandy, senior fellow for Gulf security at the International Institute...
US and UK fail to find smoking gun "I don't doubt that the Iranians do have very great influence in Iraq, but they are not manipulating everything behind the scenes," argued Toby Dodge of Queen Mary College, London....
Italy opens Pandora's box with hostage swap Still, the Taliban may find Italy's groundbreaking hostage swap a tough act to follow, said Colonel Christopher Langton at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Although...
Spring 2007 - - Survival - American Power and Allied Restraint: Lessons of Iraq By Dr Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs and Editor, Survival
U.N. Set to Debate New Sanctions on Iran Iran is on the outs with its longtime ally, Russia. Russia had been protecting Iran from the stronger sanctions the U.N. Security Council wants to impose for Iran's refusal to suspend its nuclear...
Getting the EU Back Into Eurasia By Raffaello Pantucci, Research Associate