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Obama's Iran Strategy Hits Great Wall of China

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:32:00 -0500

"The Obama administration's Iran policy is in free fall and bordering on implosion," says Flynt Leverett, a fellow at the New America Foundation and a member of President George W. Bush's National Security Council. ... Original Article

Iran Students Carry on Protests | Los Angeles Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:01:00 -0500

In a series of opinion pieces and public speeches, Hillary and Flynt Leverett, who have served as Middle East analysts for the CIA, National Security ...

Iran Pressed on Deal to Ship Nuclear Fuel Abroad | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:57:00 -0500

Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University, ...

What Serious Diplomacy Looks Like -- in Turkey

Erin Drankoski — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:38:00 -0400

Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was expected to come to the White House on Thursday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Erdogan's visit has now been postponed, and the decision to postpone comes on the heels of the Turkish leader's high-profile visit to Iran this week.

Why a Bombing in Iran Could Be Bad News for Obama | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:43:00 -0400

Former Bush National Security Council officials Flynt Leverett and Hilary Mann Leverett wrote recently in the New York Times of their conversations with ...

Some See Iran as Ready to Strike Nuclear Deal | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:20:00 -0400

"I think the Iranians are simply in no mood to accept any serious limits on the expansion of their program," said Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran Project at the New America Foundation ...

Iran's Openness to Nuclear Compromise Debated | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:27:00 -0400

... they got nothing for that and they're not going to do that again,” said Flynt Leverett, an Iran expert with the New America Foundation. ...

Some See Iran as Ready to Strike a Nuclear Deal | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:15:00 -0400

“I think the Iranians are simply in no mood to accept any serious limits on the expansion of their program,” said Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran ...

Iran | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:20:00 -0400

“In a strategic sense, I don’t think Iran is in a fundamentally different place than it was before elections, not in the way it approaches negotiations or the way it looks at its foreign policy,” said Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University. ...

Obama's Iranian Lifeline

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:48:00 -0400

Tehran threw President Barack Obama a badly needed "lifeline" for his Iran policy at last week's nuclear discussions in Geneva: It promised U.N. access to a recently declared nuclear site and committed "in principle" to ship low-enriched uranium, or LEU, abroad to make fuel rods for producing medical isotopes. If Geneva had been a "bust," Obama would have been committed to mustering international endorsement for what his secretary of state calls "crippling" sanctions against Iran -- even though no

Peace in Exchange for the Bomb | Ha'aretz

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:15:00 -0400

Today Flynt Leverett, a research fellow who specializes in Iran at The New America Foundation, shares the view of many experts, who are doubtful of the chances ...

Iran | TVO

Erin Drankoski — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:04:00 -0400

What Should US Do About Iran? | USA Today

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:15:00 -0400

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former National Security Council staffers, in The New York Times : "Instead of pushing the falsehood that ...

Iran | Russia Today

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:25:00 -0400

... limits on Iran are rather small, but that's something on which the American side is very focused, says Flynt Leverett from the New America Foundation. ...

No Nixon-to-China Moment Here | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:48:00 -0400

Astonishingly, however, writing in the New York Times this week, former National Security Council staffers Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett suggest ...

The West Prepares to Confront Iran on Findings | Spiegel Online

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:02:00 -0400

Flynt Leverett, on the other hand, is no diplomat. In 2003, he parted ways with the National Security Council and, since then, he has been outspoken about ...

Iranian Threat to Withdraw from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | The National (UAE)

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:43:00 -0400

Iran experts Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote: "Absent some agreement with Washington on its long-term goals, Iran's national security ...

Engaging Iran | Houston Chronicle

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:34:00 -0400

Two respected Iran scholars, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett , have proposed in a New York Times op-ed article that the Obama administration step ...

How to Press the Advantage With Iran

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:20:00 -0400

Tehran's disclosure that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qum has derailed the Obama administration's already faltering efforts to engage with Iran. The United States will now cling even more tightly to the futile hope that international pressure and domestic instability will induce major changes in Iranian decision-making.

Bibi in Control Until Obama Calls Settlements Illegal | The National (UAE)

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:06:00 -0400

Flynt Leverett, a former Middle East director at the US National Security Council, has noted that the 1970s, when the US did not bow so readily to Israeli ... and more »