The Iran dilemma(s) are perplexing for their multidimensionality: The ‘Iran’ item on the foreign policy agenda encompasses, inter alia the nuclear/nuclear weapons programs: regional security in the Gulf; Iran’s current and prospective roles in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrorism(s) connection; and strategic energy interests. Their delineation is complicated by the opacity of the regime’s decision-making, [...]
No alarm bells are ringing, there are no hooters or sirens but still uncertainty prevails in the gulf and its neighbourhood. Every day there are renewed threats from US and Israel that they might attack Iran but Tehran is crystal clear that noting will happen. US intend to break the backbone of Iranian Revolutionary Guards [...]
The United Arab Emirates’ plan to become the first Arab country to operate a nuclear power plant is a step closer to fruition with the announcement in December 2009 that it had selected a Korean consortium to build four nuclear-power reactors. Though other Gulf States have in recent years declared their intention to explore nuclear [...]
Trying to discern in Obama’s address at Oslo the contours of a coherent foreign policy is likely to prove futile. For the elucidation of a strategic design was not the purpose. The aim was political – in two senses. The first, primary consideration was to create favorable impressions among the American public - especially the [...]
Last week Iran and USA held direct talks on nuclear issue that is engulfing the region already unstable due to some extent. The proximity of Iran with Iraq and Afghanistan, two countries that are already under attack makes this development extremely important. Any development which destabilizes Iran will further destabilize this region in general and [...]
In 2003, American CIA established the Jundullah against Iran, and since then the Jundullah is attacking the Siestan and Balochistan province of Iran. Just recently, the Jundullah has attacked the Iranian soil and the relations of the Pakistan and Iran are in critical condition.
Pakistan’s relations with the Iran have remained turbulent. Once the Pasdaran-e-Inqalab of [...]
While Pakistan welcomed the US offer to help it overcome the energy crisis, the US made it clear that it was linked to the relinquishing of long-dreamt-about Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project. The need for natural gas is more imperative than ever both for India and Pakistan. Long-term projections indicate that the demand for gas [...]
