The Nelson Report contains two bits of informed speculation, one about US policy and the other about Iranian domestic politics. 1. Administration observers express cautious optimism that the deal may stick, saving the United States an ugly sanctions fight at the United Nations that Washington may lose. SECSTATE is expected to offer a halt to …
Paris Negotiations Update 8:Solana: EU-Iran Deal "Pretty Close"
by | 2004-11-09 | No Comments
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told Reuters that “Progress has been made and we are waiting now for the final response from Iran” regarding the compromise negotiated in Paris. “It’s very difficult to give a definition of how close we are but my feeling today is that we are pretty close to having an …
Paris Negotiations Update 7: How do you spell "considerable progress" in Persian?
by | 2004-11-07 | No Comments
“Negotiations were very hard and complicated but we reached a preliminary agreement on an expertise level,” Hossein Mousavian told Iranian state television (via Reuters), “It is a framework that contains the viewpoints of all sides. All four delegations are supposed to go to their capitals and if the capitals agree with the agreement, it will …
Danilov Conviction
by | 2004-11-06 | No Comments
A Russian court has convicted Russian physicist Valentin Danilov of of selling state secrets to China, overturning his earlier acquittal that angered the FSB (nee KGB). The case parallels that of Igor Sutyagin, a scholar at Moscow/’s Institute of USA and Canada Studies (ISKRAN), who was convicted on trumped-up espionage charges and sentenced to 15 …
