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Entessar & Afrasiabi's Iran Nuclear Negotiations (Rowman &
Littlefied, October 2015) offered a thorough analysis of the
negotiation process between Iran and the 5+1 great powers about its
nuclear program. This book essentially builds upon it, focusing
this time on the final nuclear agreement, the ensuing debates
around it, and its global and regional ramifications especially in
the Middle East. The first section analyzes the agreement through
the prism of international relations theories, using a
constructivist-critical theory approach. This is followed by an
overview of the intense debates in Iran, the West, and other parts
of the world, on the nuclear agreement and its various pros and
cons, not to mention the connected, yet separate Iran-IAEA
agreement. The second section covers Iran's foreign policy and its
various priorities, looking in particular at the impact of the
nuclear deal on the country's external relations and orientations,
contextualized in terms of pre-existing issues and concerns and the
profound influence of the nuclear agreement on the perceptions of
Iranian power in the region and beyond. Iran's relations with its
Arab, Turkish, Russian, and other neighbors are discussed, focusing
on both the direct and indirect impact of the nuclear agreement on
these relations, especially the paradoxical implications of the
nuclear deal with respect to the non-nuclear crises in the Middle
East, such as the Syria-Iraq crisis, and the re-alignments that
have put Iran at the crossroads of East and West. Other issues
covered include energy security, regional economic cooperation, the
endemic sectarianism highlighted by Iran-Saudi competition, and the
deadlock on the Middle East peace process. The third section then
examines the issue of a Middle East nuclear weapons-free zone and
the likely consequences of the Iran nuclear deal on this prospect,
which, in turn, raises the issue of regional proliferation and
counterproliferation. The last section explores some possible
various scenarios and the challenges of implementation as a
relatively long-term agreement, providing specific policy
recommendations for the regional actors and the external powers
that are stakeholders in the volatile Middle East.
In November 2013, a historic agreement on Iran's nuclear program
was reached between Iran and the world powers, raising the
prospects for a long-term agreement that would end the Iran nuclear
crisis and set the stage for normal relations between Iran and the
West. This book seeks to provide readers with a comprehensive
understanding of this agreement and the protracted process that
preceded it. It examines in details the nuclear negotiations
between Iran and the world powers, focusing on the origins and
evolution of the Iran nuclear crisis, the unilateral and the
multilateral sanctions. It also looks at the relationship between
nuclear and various non-nuclear regional issues, as well as the
long-term implications for the U.S.-Iran relations.
With the advent of the Trump Administration, relations between Iran
and the United States have become increasingly conflictual to the
point that a future war between the two countries is a realistic
possibility. President Trump has unilaterally withdrawn the US from
the historic Iran nuclear accord and has re-imposed the
nuclear-related sanctions, which had been removed as a result of
that accord. Reflecting a new determined US effort to curb Iran's
hegemonic behavior throughout the Middle East, Trump's Iran policy
has all the markings of a sharp discontinuity in the Iran
containment strategy of the previous six US administrations. The
regime change policy, spearheaded by a hawkish cabinet with a long
history of antipathy toward the Iranian government, has become the
most salient feature of US policy toward Iran under President
Trump. This turn in US foreign policy has important consequences
not just for Iran but also for Iran's neighbors and prospects of
long-term stability in the Persian Gulf and beyond. This book seeks
to examine the fluid dynamic of US-Iran relations in the Trump era
by providing a social scientific understanding of the pattern of
hostility and antagonism between Washington and Tehran and the
resulting spiraling conflict that may lead to a disastrous war in
the region.
With the advent of the Trump Administration, relations between Iran
and the United States have become increasingly conflictual to the
point that a future war between the two countries is a realistic
possibility. President Trump has unilaterally withdrawn the US from
the historic Iran nuclear accord and has re-imposed the
nuclear-related sanctions, which had been removed as a result of
that accord. Reflecting a new determined US effort to curb Iran's
hegemonic behavior throughout the Middle East, Trump's Iran policy
has all the markings of a sharp discontinuity in the Iran
containment strategy of the previous six US administrations. The
regime change policy, spearheaded by a hawkish cabinet with a long
history of antipathy toward the Iranian government, has become the
most salient feature of US policy toward Iran under President
Trump. This turn in US foreign policy has important consequences
not just for Iran but also for Iran's neighbors and prospects of
long-term stability in the Persian Gulf and beyond. This book seeks
to examine the fluid dynamic of US-Iran relations in the Trump era
by providing a social scientific understanding of the pattern of
hostility and antagonism between Washington and Tehran and the
resulting spiraling conflict that may lead to a disastrous war in
the region.
This book provides an in-depth examination of the 2011 US
allegation of Iran's plot to assassinate the ambassador of Saudi
Arabia in Washington. Written by a renowned political scientist, it
questions the truthfulness of US allegation and the related
criminal complaint, by drawing on US laws as well as insights from
the discipline of critical legal studies. This book is bound to
shock the readers by providing a new case study of how the US "war
on terror" has gone astray by manufacturing fake threats, as part
and parcel of a designed Iran phobia. Essential reading for readers
of US foreign policy under the Obama administration. Table of
Content: Introduction: Iran Phobia in Context Full Throttle: US
Alleges A Terror Plot Legal Deconstruction: Fake US Complaint 1-
Methodology of Legal Deconstruction 2. Questions about Arbabisar's
"confession" 3. Question of Entrapment 4. Legal Definition of
Exculpatory Evidence 5. Legal Flaws in the US Complaint 6. Four
Troubling Questions About the (Fictitious) "Cousin" 7. Implausible
Defects in FBI Surveillance/Investigation 8. Conspiracy in US Law
9. Contradictions on the Terror Money 10. Discrepancies Between the
Two Complaints 11. "Weapons of Mass Destruction" Allegation
Deconstructed Conclusion Appendix: 1. Amended US Complaint 2.
Statement of US Department of Justice 3. Original US Complaint 4.
Letter of Iran's UN Ambassador to UN 5. Excerpt of University
Report: Targeted and Entrapped Selected Bibliography About the
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