Iran War Weekly | July 22, 2013

[Reprinted with the author's permission. Reformatted for Antiwar.com.] Iran’s newly elected president will take office on August 3, and negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program are expected to begin in early September. In the interim, intense and possibly important...

Iran War Weekly | July 8, 2013

[Reprinted with the author's permission.] The few reporters and writers who remained at their posts over this sweltering July 4th weekend have been focused primarily on the events in Egypt, and there is relatively little new news about Iran, its nuclear program,...

Iran War Weekly | July 2, 2013

[Reprinted with author's permission.] Will the election of Iranian president Hassan Rowhani encourage Washington and its European allies to abandon thoughts of regime change and move towards a resolution of their dispute with Iran over the latter’s nuclear program?...

Iran War Weekly | June 23, 2013

This week's edition of Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly: Iran’s presidential election offers “the West” an opportunity to extricate itself from the dangerous political and military logjam it has created with its opposition to Iran’s nuclear program. The question,...

Iran War Weekly | June 4, 2013

From Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly: Negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program remain on hold, awaiting the outcome of Iran’s presidential election, which will take place on June 14th. But the related issue of Iran-Syria and Syria’s civil war threatens to boil over,...

Iran War Weekly | May 26, 2013

Per Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly: While huge majorities of the US public oppose war with Iran or US intervention in Syria, Congress and the mainstream US media have stepped up the pressure for a more aggressive stance on both fronts. With these factors in mind, we...

Iran War Weekly | May 20, 2013

From Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly: After almost a year of no progress in negotiations between “the West” and Iran about Iran’s nuclear program, last week’s meetings in Istanbul confirmed that there would be, indeed, no progress until at least after Iran’s...

Iran War Weekly | May 12, 2013

From Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly: While nuclear negotiators will meet Wednesday in Istanbul, little progress is expected in the diplomatic standoff about Iran’s nuclear program before Iran’s presidential election, which will take place on June 14th. With Iran’s...