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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Iran</title>
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		<title>The Debate over Bombing Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/13/the-debate-over-bombing-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist held a debate earlier this week about taking military action against Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.
In favor of military action was General Chuck F. Wald, a director at Deloitte.  Dr. Emily Landau, a senior research associate at Israel&#8217;s Institute for National Security Studies, opposed the option.
For military action
General Wald offered these forecasts:

&#8220;There remain levers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Opposition Pro-Nuke?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/iranian-opposition-pro-nuke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/iranian-opposition-pro-nuke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting rid of Ahmadinejad or the current regime may not greatly change the trajectory of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, as some seem to assume.
As Iran vacillates &#8212; or appears to &#8212; on the uranium stockpile deal, the opposition is accusing Ahmadinejad of giving away too much to the West.
The WaPo reports that 
The strongest criticism has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: Sanctions, Regime Change, Etc.</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/29/iran-sanctions-regime-change-etc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/29/iran-sanctions-regime-change-etc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US is preparing to push for new sanctions against Iran in light of its nuclear program, aiming to interfere with Iranian trade more broadly.  
A comprehensive sanctions approach has more chance of success than efforts so far, and Iran might be more susceptible to pressure in the wake of the post-election political and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Nukes Closer?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/11/iranian-nukes-closer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/11/iranian-nukes-closer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran may now have enough nuclear fuel &#8220;to make a rapid, if risky, sprint for a nuclear weapon,&#8221; the New York Times reported this week.
However, design work on an actual nuclear weapon may have been halted in 2003, and &#8220;it is unclear how many months — or even years — it would take Iran to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;On Iran, Do Nothing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/05/on-iran-do-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/05/on-iran-do-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria advocates doing nothing with Iran in this week&#8217;s Newsweek (&#8221;On Iran, Do Nothing.  Yet,&#8221; August 3, 2009, p. 26).
In the short term, the US should not confer legitimacy on the post-election regime, and in any case has already made a serious offer of talks.
In the longer term, he suggests that passive measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Armageddon in Islamabad&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/27/armageddon-in-islamabad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/27/armageddon-in-islamabad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sunni extremist takeover of Pakistan would be an immense threat to the US and hard to counter, Bruce Reidel writes in The National Interest.
Such a takeover
would create the greatest threat the United States has yet to face in its war on terror. Pakistan as an Islamic-extremist safe haven would bolster al-Qaeda’s capabilities tenfold. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Future: Oil Trouble, and a Welcome Israeli Strike</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/23/irans-future-oil-trouble-and-a-welcome-israeli-strike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/23/irans-future-oil-trouble-and-a-welcome-israeli-strike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace made several forecasts for Iran in the course of an interview last week with Middle East Progress:

&#8220;The combination of oil at $60 a barrel and heightened economic sanctions is going to be much more difficult for the Ahmadinejad government to endure, I think it’s going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Trajectory</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/irans-trajectory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/irans-trajectory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Events of the last three week&#8217;s have unsettled Iran&#8217;s future, and the range of potential outcomes is now broader than it was before.
Regardless of how Iranians actually voted, &#8220;Iran is a divided country now,&#8221; as one analyst put it to the New York Times, with different forces backing more starkly competing visions of the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s China Option</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/13/irans-china-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/13/irans-china-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though Iran appears to be headed for more years with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, columnist Roger Cohen recently noted a potential long-term path for the nation.
Former president and powerful establishment figure Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani &#8220;believes in a China option for Iran: a historic rapprochement with the United States that will at the same time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would striking Iran work?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/11/would-striking-iran-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/11/would-striking-iran-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new analysis by the Institute for Science and International Security attempts to answer that question, the Washington Post reports.
A military strike against Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities would probably only delay the country&#8217;s progress toward nuclear-weapons capability, according to a study that concludes that such an attack could backfire by strengthening Tehran&#8217;s resolve to acquire the [...]]]></description>
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