Word: iranian
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...study of Sanskrit began at Harvard in 1872 when it was established as an elective for Latin studies. It was folded into the Department of Indo-Iranian Languages later in the decade and assumed its current name...
Still, courting the Chinese is important, we feel, for China’s cooperation is crucial in establishing a united global front against Iranian nuclear intransigence. Russia is another such crucial ally, hence our praise for Obama’s decision to scale back the U.S. missile defense program in Poland as a sign of goodwill toward the Russians. This choice was particularly sensible given the expensiveness and relative uselessness of such missile-defense programs. Obama’s efforts to please Russia ostensibly paid off when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev verbally backed the concept of sanctions against Iran...
Even before Soltani’s boast, indications that Iran was nearing operational nuclear arms have been growing stronger in the last few months. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled on April 9 a revamped centrifuge capable of enriching uranium at faster speeds that, according to the State Department, would be unnecessary for peaceful nuclear power. The Arak heavy water plant and the Bushehr atomic reactor, both almost completed, could combine to produce dangerous quantities of plutonium for nuclear warheads. Furthermore, according to the “Weekly Standard,” a thus far unreleased report...
...United States’ primary strategy in attempting to rein in Iran has been economic sanctions. Unfortunately, these sanctions have had only a small effect on the Iranian economy as evidenced by the growth in its 2008 GDP by a strong 6.4 percent...
While the United States has been implementing sharper trade sanctions, the economies of Germany, China, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates have reaped the benefits of a larger share of Iranian trade. President Obama recognizes that in order to provide truly effective economic sanctions they must be multilateral and, most importantly, include China and Russia. He has recently discussed economic sanctions with both Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Both nations have proven unreliable on this issue in the past and furthermore, if Iran is truly only a month, or perhaps months, from developing...