BEIJING - With the dispute over Iran's controversial nuclear program moving this week to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the stage is set for a perilous confrontation between the Islamic republic and the international community – a showdown that not...

So what should the United States and the West do about Iran's effort to acquire nuclear technology and (almost certainly) eventually a nuclear weapon? Kenneth Waltz has convinced me that for the sake of reduction of conflict and war, the best thing we can do is –...

Releasing the latest edition of its annual human rights "Country Reports," the U.S. State Department Wednesday named Iran and China as among the world's "most systematic human rights violators" in 2005, along with North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe,...

Is the IOB DOA? As the originator of the "Iran Oil Bourse" I hope you can spare me some space to comment in relation to Ms. Berg's recent articles. The original concept five or so years ago was not of an "Iran Oil Bourse" but of a "Middle East Energy Exchange"...

Promoting Terrorists, Again Milan Babic, onetime president of the breakaway Republic of Serb Krajina (in today's Croatia), was found dead in his temporary cell at the Hague Inquisition's Scheveningen prison on Monday, having reportedly committed suicide. Two years...

Standing beside Pervez Musharraf, an ally in the war on terror, President Bush explained how he told him Pakistan would not be getting the same aid in developing peaceful nuclear power that Bush had just promised to India: "I explained that Pakistan and India are...

In Iraq, defeat stares us in the face. Efforts to "Iraq-ize" the campaign to crush the Sunni insurgency have the U.S. war effort sinking under the weight of its own implausibility, and American policymakers are flailing around in search of an alternative. As U.S....

We already have "stealth" aircraft, but what about a little of the stealth that only nature can provide? Navy SEALs, move over – here come the Navy sharks. According to the latest New Scientist magazine, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA,...

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At the insistence of the Cheney cabal, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency had a "special" meeting a month ago and passed a resolution [.pdf] requesting that the IAEA director-general: "[C]ontinue with his efforts to...