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So how did Obama, for all his game-changing intentions, end up inheriting Bush's Iran stalemate? Two key factors have combined to scupper his diplomatic efforts: Iran's domestic political year of living dangerously, and the fact that the new Administration bound its diplomacy to tight deadlines and to...
Tehran insists that it has not, in fact, rejected the deal that would see the country exchange three quarters of its current enriched uranium stockpile for reactor fuel. Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki says Tehran simply wants to ship out its uranium in smaller parcels and over a longer time period...
Iran, which insists its uranium enrichment is purely for peaceful purposes, rejects the notion that its stockpile is a security threat. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters had initially trumpeted the deal as a great victory because, they said, it represented the West tacitly accepting Iran's right to enrichment...
The problem facing Western negotiators is that all of Iran's political factions insist on the country's right to enrich uranium. And the increasingly bitter struggle for power in Tehran following last June's disputed election has not only pushed the nuclear issue to the margins of the regime...
With both Obama and Ahmadinejad having been painted into corners, the deadlock is unlikely to be broken by the sanctions that are expected to be put in place in the coming months. Hawks will argue that's because Iran is intractably committed to building nuclear weapons; doves will say that...