Middle East & Persian Gulf

  • Are nuclear talks with Iran salvageable?

    Efforts to resolve the crisis over Iran's nuclear program stalled yesterday when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced he was no longer open to nuclear talks and said the country would begin enriching its own uranium, bringing its stockpile closer to weapons-grade material.

    December 3, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Watch Joe Cirincione on the Colbert Report

    On Monday night's Colbert Report, Stephen challenges Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione to a round of "sanction, bomb or marry," acts out the effects of a nuclear explosion from his chair, and concludes by telling Joe, "You, s

    December 1, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Ploughshares Fund grantees debate Iranian enrichment plant

    Iran angrily refused Sunday to comply with a demand by the United Nations nuclear agency to cease work on a once-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant, and escalated the confrontation by declaring it would construct 10 more such plants.  International Atomic Energy Agency voted last week to r

    November 30, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • NIAC Advisor appointed to senior State Department post

    The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a Ploughshares Fund grantee, announced the appointment of NIAC advisory board member Ambassador John Limbert as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S.

    November 12, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Deepti Choubey: Iran’s intentions

    Iran’s rejection of international community’s proposal to fuel the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) indicates that the Supreme Leader feels no urgency to rebuild confidence with the international community, writes Deepti Choubey of the

    November 10, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Is Iran concealing other secret nuclear sites?

    The amount of uranium needed at Qum, some 7 to 16 percent of Isfahan's stockpile, would be too great a diversion to go unnoticed, says Andreas Persbo, an arms-control analyst at VERTIC, a Ploughshares Fund gr

    October 26, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Four reasons talking to Iran is a good idea

    "Amid the historic first rounds of talks between the Islamic Republic and the United States," writes the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council in its bl

    October 19, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Nuclear talks with Iran get underway in Vienna

    Negotiators meeting in Vienna say that talks were off to a "good start," despite reports from Iran that it was unwilling to move its enriched uranium to another country.  The talks between Tehran and the U.S., Russia and France are intended to focus on a technical issue with huge s

    October 19, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Administration asks Congress to delay sanctions

    Obama administration officials asked Congress to wait before enacting further sanctions on Iran, reports the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council (NIAC).  The

    October 8, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Andrea Mitchell Reports

    Following a series of revelations about Iran's nuclear program, Joe speaks with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and gives his analysis of the events. 

    Watch the full segment after the jump.

    October 2, 2009 - By Ploughshares Fund