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POLITICS-US: Holy Warriors Set Sights on Iran

By IPS Correspondents
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. Christian right has evolved into one of the most powerful grassroots organising forces within the Republican Party, and a host of Christian Zionists have taken a well-earned seat at the foreign policy table.

POLITICS: India Split Over US Nuke Deal

By IPS Correspondents
While President George W. Bush has signed into law new legislation passed by Congress to enable the controversial U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal, the agreement has come under flak in India's Parliament and a massive confrontation has broken out between its supporters and opponents.

ASIA: Japan, India Set to Forge New Regional Order

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Fledgling bilateral relations between Japan, Asia's powerhouse, and India, a major player in the region, are reckoned to have received a boost as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's four-day visit here winds up on Friday.

POLITICS-US: Losing Arab Allies’ Hearts and Minds

By Jim Lobe
Attitudes towards the United States reached new lows through most of the Arab world over the past year, according to the findings of a major new survey of five Arab countries released here Thursday by Zogby International and the Arab American Institute (AAI).

POLITICS: Indo-US Nuclear Deal Through – Pleases Few

By IPS Correspondents
One and a half years after it was initialled, the nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India has received highly qualified approval from U.S. Congress.

EAST ASIA: Regional Nuke Race – Nightmare for China

By IPS Correspondents
China's concerns about the onset of a nuclear arms race in East Asia are beginning to override Beijing's long-term worry of seeing a collapsed state on its border, according to analysts and diplomats here.

POLITICS-US: Rice&#39s Iran Strategy Fizzles, Cheney Waits in Wings

By Gareth Porter
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's months-long diplomatic effort to get five other powers to agree to a tough United Nations Security Council resolution on sanctions against Iran now seems certain to fail, because of Russian and Chinese resistance.

POLITICS-ASIA: China, India Make Progress – No Cost to Pakistan

By IPS Correspondents
At the end of an important week-long visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to South Asia, what does the complicated triangular relationship between Beijing, New Delhi and Islamabad, three of Asia's four nuclear powers, look like?

POLITICS: Business Lobbies Push Indo-US Nuke Deal

By IPS Correspondents
The United States and India have begun new manoeuvres to push through their controversial nuclear cooperation deal after the U.S. Senate, in a special "lame duck" session last week, passed an important bill facilitating it.

POLITICS: Argentine Report Casts Doubt on Iran Role in &#3994 Bomb

By Gareth Porter
The report by Argentine prosecutors in support of the arrest warrants just issued for seven former Iranian officials for the 1994 terror bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires reveals that Argentina was continuing to provide Iran with low-grade enriched uranium and the two countries were in serious negotiations on broader nuclear cooperation when the bombing occurred.

POLITICS: Dialogue or Sanctions – U.S. Dilemma Over Iran

By Thalif Deen
The United States, which is making little headway in its attempts to impose mandatory U.N. sanctions on Iran, is facing a political dilemma as it comes under increasing pressure to initiate a dialogue with the very country it is trying to punish for its defiant nuclear programme.

POLITICS: Argentine Report Casts Doubt on Iran Role in ’94 Bomb

By Gareth Porter
The report by Argentine prosecutors in support of the arrest warrants just issued for seven former Iranian officials for the 1994 terror bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires reveals that Argentina was continuing to provide Iran with low-grade enriched uranium and the two countries were in serious negotiations on broader nuclear cooperation when the bombing occurred.

POLITICS-US: Iran Is Key to Course Change on Iraq

By IPS Correspondents
Two political earthquakes hit the United States this week. On Tuesday, the Democrats took control of Congress, and the following day, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was replaced by Robert Gates, a member of the senior Bush's foreign policy team.

POLITICS: US Election Verdict Imperils India Nuclear Deal

By IPS Correspondents
The Democratic Party's strong showing in the United States Congressional elections has enlarged the question-mark which hangs over Washington's nuclear cooperation deal with India. But no major change in U.S.-India relations appears to be on the cards.

POLITICS: Gulf Security Hinges on Axis of Realpolitik

By Omid Memarian
As the sectarian conflict in Iraq escalates, along with stepped up attacks on U.S. troops and civilians, Dr. Houchang E. Chehabi, an international relations professor at Boston University and expert on Persian Gulf issues, says Iran could step in to stabilise Iraq - if offered an incentive to do so.

POLITICS: North Korea Wins Nuclear Poker Round

By IPS Correspondents
By announcing that it would return to the negotiation table and address the major powers' concerns about its nuclear programme, North Korea may have scored an unlikely but impressive diplomatic victory.

POLITICS-US: Neo-Con Nadir?

By Jim Lobe
Less than a week from mid-term elections that are expected to bring at least one house of Congress under Democratic control, neo-conservatives, whose foreign policy ideas dominated most of the first half of the administration of George W. Bush, are having a hard time.

POLITICS-US: Hillary Urges Talks with Syria, Iran, North Korea

By Jim Lobe
In a major policy address, Sen. Hillary Clinton Tuesday called for a "sea change" in U.S. foreign policy that would include direct talks with Syria, Iran and North Korea and greater U.S. engagement in promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

JAPAN: Activists Plan to Nip Nuclear Ambitions

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Recent remarks by top level politicians and military strategists while discussing the once taboo topic of Japan becoming a nuclear weapons power has raised bitter memories for Shoji Kihara, 57, a peace activist living in Hiroshima.

POLITICS-US: Bush Under Growing Pressure to Engage Syria

By Jim Lobe
While U.S. President George W. Bush appeared this week to reject suggestions that Washington directly engage the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, pressure both here and in the region for Washington to work out some accommodation with Damascus is rising.

POLITICS: U.N. Security Council Edicts Challenged

By Thalif Deen
The United Nations Security Council, the only body empowered to declare war and peace and also impose punitive economic and military sanctions, is being increasingly challenged by defiant member states.
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