Iranian Proliferation
Iran’s nuclear ambitions challenge existing nuclear states and the nonproliferation regime. Carnegie’s internationally recognized nonproliferation experts study Iran’s nuclear program from American, Russian, and Middle Eastern perspectives, examining the implications for regional and global security and looking for the best policy options for the international community.
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5 Minutes With Benjamin Netanyahu
In considering Israel’s response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Prime Minister Netanyahu must set aside personal animus and consider the nature of Iranian politics and the character of the regime in Tehran.
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Attacking Iran: The Last Thing the U.S. Administration Wants to Do
Aside from the improbability and imprudence of a U.S. attack on Iran, it would also be a major political misstep for the Obama administration.
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Saudi Arabia's Nuclear Ambitions
With the cooperation of the United States and other advanced nuclear countries, Saudi Arabia's budding nuclear energy program would directly challenge Iran's aspirations for regional leadership in nuclear power.
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Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
Any effective U.S. diplomatic approach to Iran must involve other countries in the Gulf, but Washington will not succeed if it continues to strive for an anti-Iranian alliance. A normalization of relations between Iran and its neighbors is an important and attainable step for reintegrating Iran into the international community.
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Dealing with Iran: The Power of Legitimacy
Rules are the key to maintaining necessary pressure on Iran and framing a mutually-acceptable, face-saving outcome. Iran must take steps to build and maintain international confidence that all its nuclear activities are peaceful, and that none have military dimensions.
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Turkey's Perspectives on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament
Global nuclear disarmament could increase Turkey’s regional and international influence. If Iran achieves its nuclear ambitions and America’s influence is perceived as declining, however, Turkey’s inclination to favor a disarmament agreement may change.
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Iran: Reality, Opinions, and Consequences
The United States must alter its democracy promotion strategy, which has been unconstructive and counterproductive, and make clear that it has no intention of undermining Iran's territorial integrity. A move away from democracy promotion, however, should not signal indifference to human rights abuses.
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Taking Tehran’s Temperature: One Year On
Last year’s highly controversial presidential election spurred Iran’s largest uprisings since the 1979 revolution. While the government gradually succeeded in violently quashing the opposition momentum, the country’s deep internal rifts remain visible.
Experts
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Deepti Choubey
Choubey was previously the director of the Peace and Security Initiative for the Ploughshares Fund. She also worked for Ambassador Nancy Soderberg in the New York office of the International Crisis Group. -
Shahram Chubin
Based in Geneva, Chubin’s research focuses on nonproliferation, terrorism, and Middle East security issues. He was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009. -
Pierre Goldschmidt
Goldschmidt is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. Goldschmidt is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Association Vinçotte Nuclear (AVN). -
Mark Hibbs
Hibbs is a Berlin-based senior associate in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. Before joining Carnegie, for over 20 years he was an editor and correspondent for the nuclear energy publications, including Nucleonics Week and Nuclear Fuel, published by the Platts division of the McGraw-Hill Companies. -
Ariel (Eli) Levite
Levite was the Principal Deputy Director General for Policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007. -
George Perkovich
Perkovich's research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a focus on South Asia and Iran, and on the problem of justice in the international political economy. -
Karim Sadjadpour
A leading researcher on Iran, Sadjadpour has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials, and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others. -
Paul Schulte
Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear non proliferation, cyber security and their political implications.