Iran

Publication Date: May 2007

Publication / Source: The 3D Security Initiative

Author: Lisa Schirch and Lynn Kunkle

This policy brief describes new diplomatic frameworks and multi-track channels for negotiation. It was developed out of a roundtable of conflict prevention experts and Iranian scholars by the 3D Security Initiative.

Publication Date: 2007/03/09

Publication / Source: Center for American Progress

Author: Ruy Teixeira

According to Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Ruy Teixeira, the public’s views could not be clearer on Iran: make diplomacy, not war.

Publication Date: 2007/03/16

Publication / Source: Council on Foreign Relations

Author: F. Gregory Gause III

The intensified Saudi diplomacy of recent weeks has been largely aimed at containing Iranian influence in the Middle East. Citing Lebanon and the Palestinian peace process as examples, Gause says the Saudis are trying “a sophisticated way to limit Iranian influence in places where the Iranians seem to be getting stronger.”

Publication Date: 2007/03/20

Publication / Source: Council on Foreign Relations

Author: Lionel Beehner

On the eve of the Persian New Year, nervousness permeates (RFE/RL) the air over Iran instead of festivity. Across the globe, the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany appear united on a new draft resolution that would saddle Tehran with stricter punitive sanctions (Reuters) for the second time in the past four months. The sanctions are in response to Iran’s refusal to suspend its uranium-enrichment program. Iran claims it needs a nuclear program for peaceful, electricity-generating purposes and asserts its right to develop it under an international treaty. But Europe and the United States suspect Iran intends to build a nuclear bomb.