Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons

Price Hikes, Sliding Currency Rattle Iranian Consumers

By Jason Rezaian
Massive uncertainty, severe sanctions on its economy and a diminishing supply of hard currency have sent the Iranian currency, the rial, into a tailspin that appears unlikely to stabilise anytime soon.

Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of “Covert” Iranian Nuclear Site

By Gareth Porter
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's charge Tuesday that Iran had intended to keep the Fordow site secret until it was revealed by Western intelligence revived a claim the Barack Obama administration made in September 2009.

Obama Administration Edges Toward Iran Regime Change

By Barbara Slavin
The Barack Obama administration is increasingly giving the impression that it supports a policy of regime change against Iran - a policy that could backfire and convince Iran to build nuclear weapons.

IRAN: Elections Playbook Starts With Crackdown on Critics

By Omid Memarian
Less than two months before Iran's parliamentary elections, as much of the opposition mounts a boycott of the polls, a wave of arrests and lengthy prison sentences for political activists and journalists appears to herald a renewed crackdown in the Iranian capital.

TAIWAN: Poll Will Decide Nuclear Plant’s Fate

By Dennis Engbarth
Voters in Taiwan’s upcoming presidential and national legislative elections will also decide the fate of a bitterly controversial 9.3 billion dollar nuclear power plant.

Less Counter-Insurgency, More Asia in New U.S. Strategy

By Jim Lobe
Capping a major eight-month review, President Barack Obama unveiled a new defence strategy here Thursday that places more emphasis on U.S. military capabilities in Asia and the Pacific and much less on counter-insurgency and nation-building operations in poorer and conflict-plagued countries.

U.S.: Anti-Neo-Con Candidate Getting Serious Look

By Jim Lobe
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who 24 years ago performed dismally as the standard-bearer of the Libertarian Party, has begun making waves in the 2012 presidential campaign, to the extreme discomfort of neo-conservatives and aggressive nationalists who dominate the foreign policy rosters of most of his Republican rivals.

US-IRAN: War of Words Calculated to Avoid Actual Conflict

By Barbara Slavin
The recent escalation in Iranian threats to blockade oil shipments and attack U.S. Navy vessels are meant to push up the price of oil and divert domestic opinion from an economic crisis but are not likely to lead to a war in the Persian Gulf, in the view of Iran experts.

IRAN: Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack

By Gareth Porter
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are engaged in intense maneuvering over Netanyahu's aim of entangling the United States in an Israeli war against Iran.

JAPAN: New Year Brings Economic Aftershocks

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Hideo Sato, 47, and his family escaped to this snowy city 200 km from the radiation emitting Fuksuhima power plant that was struck by a massive earthquake-driven tsunami on Mar. 11.

BOOKS: U.S., Iran Both Squandered Opportunities for Detente

By Barbara Slavin
Veteran observers of U.S.-Iran relations know better than to be optimistic about the chances for reconciliation between the two countries. It has long been the pattern - indeed the curse - that when one side was ready to engage, the other was not.

Collateral Damage From Fukushima Hits Europe

By Julio Godoy
Several leading European electricity providers and nuclear power plant constructors now count as part of the collateral damage caused by the tsunami that destroyed the Japanese nuclear power plant of Fukushima last March.

JAPAN: Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11.

North Korea on the Verge of a New Era?

By John Feffer
For the last two decades, U.S. administrations have come in like a lion and out like a lamb with their policies on North Korea. Determined to demonstrate Washington's resolve, U.S. presidents have played hardball with Pyongyang in an effort to precipitate regime change or at least bully the intransigent country into knuckling under.

PROFILE: Kim Jong-un

By Correspondents and - -
Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of Kim Jong-il, is widely believed to be his father's choice as heir to the North Korean leadership.

U.S.: Former Top Aide Offers Insight on Mideast and Iran

By Mitchell Plitnick and - -
In his first public address since departing from the White House, Dennis Ross, former top Middle East aide to U.S. President Barack Obama, called for increased sanctions on Iran, a careful approach to new Arab regimes and a low-key approach to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

U.S.: New Republican Front-runner Roils Mideast Waters

By Jim Lobe
Newt Gingrich has a well-documented reputation for bomb throwing, but his latest assertions about Palestinians threaten to blow at least two decades of U.S. Middle East diplomacy to pieces.

U.S.: Military Option Recedes Amid Tug-of-War Over Iran Policy

By Barbara Slavin
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said Friday that he believes that sanctions and diplomacy are the right strategy to deal with Iran's nuclear programme and that the United States "is doing everything we can to accomplish the stated objective without resorting to military force".
Nuclear threats from Israel and Iran have triggered a potential competitor in Saudi Arabia. Credit: U.S. Air Force

MIDEAST: Saudi Warning Could Escalate Nuclear Arms Race

By Thalif Deen
The world's nuclear powers - both declared and undeclared - have come primarily from Asia: China, India, Pakistan and possibly North Korea.

Stepping Towards Nuclear-Free Middle East

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Representatives from over 65 organisations and countries convened in Amman, Jordan last week in an effort to lay the groundwork for the United Nations' goal of creating a Middle East without nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

Most Israelis Favour a Nuclear-Free Middle East, Poll Shows

By Mitchell Plitnick and - -
A clear majority of Israeli Jews would support a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, even if it meant that Israel too would have to give up its stockpile of nuclear weapons.
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