AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-34507619_ITM" title="Facts and information about Our imaginary foe.(Looking East)">Our imaginary foe.(Looking East)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from The National Interest are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
Our imaginary foe.(Looking East)
IRAN'S THEOCRATIC leaders are not an attractive group of men. Their behavior and their public statements provide much ammunition for those who are convinced their regime should be toppled. Iran is a dangerous country.
But Iran does not pose an existential threat to the United States analogous to imperial Japan, Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. It is not a rising superpower that threatens to dominate the globe--a regional troublemaker, yes. But "confronting Iran" should not become the guiding focus of U.S. foreign policy.
Rhetoric about Iran's malign propensities has received much attention. A worst-case analysis, most vigorously argued by Norman ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- The Soviet Union and its Southern Neighbours: Iran and Afghanistan, 1917-1933.
- Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies Light, Margot April 1, 1995 700+ words
...aggressive. He maintains that the Soviet Union intended to turn Iran and Afghanistan `into bridgeheads...objective was global revolution. The Soviet Union and its Southern Neighbours is an account of Soviet relations with Iran and Afghanistan from 1917 until...
- Turkish press warns of Iran's efforts to emerge as "new Soviet Union".
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports September 7, 2006 700+ words
...commentary warns against Iran's "ambition to become a sort of new Soviet Union" or a a leading power...West's attitude. Iran constitutes in itself...programme indicates Iran's ambition to become a sort of new Soviet Union, in other words a...
- Islamic Revolution "shook the foundations" of US, Soviet Union - Iran paper.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports February 20, 2009 700+ words
...imagined took place in Iran, one of the countries...that what happened in Iran was a revolution that...power dominated by the Soviet Union. Having divided the...the West and the former Soviet Union without the support of...people, the Islamic Iran succeeded to neutralize...
- The former Soviet Union again is dominating petroleum news. (Boris Yeltsin...
- Magazine article from: The Oil and Gas Journal November 10, 1997 700+ words
The decree removes all restrictions on ownership by non-Russian companies, says Boris Nemtsov, Russia's Fuel and Energy Minister. It will likely draw fire from the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, which opposes foreign ownership of oil interests.
- The Soviet Union and Egypt: 1945-1955.
- Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies Light, Margot April 1, 1995 700+ words
...aggressive. He maintains that the Soviet Union intended to turn Iran and Afghanistan 'into bridgeheads...objective was global revolution. The Soviet Union and its Southern Neighbours is an account of Soviet relations with Iran and Afghanistan from 1917 until...
- All-Star Panel Discusses Howard Deans' Soviet Union Mistake.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 2, 2003 700+ words
...I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most...equipment of the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from...
- Arms control between the United States and States of the former Soviet...
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs Woolf, Amy F. Nikitin, Mary Beth Kerr, Paul K. February 1, 2009 700+ words
...the United States and Soviet Union; they argued for lower...Treaty would allow the Soviet Union to maintain strategic...this advantage, the Soviet Union would be able to target...of U.S. hostages in Iran and other challenges...
- Afghan paper comments on former Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 16, 2004 700+ words
...withdrawal of the former Soviet Union's so-called "limited...the pretext that the Soviet Union's friendly neighbour...US, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt each made...manufactured in the Soviet Union and shipped through...
- U.S. experts fear nuclear proliferation from stockpiles of former Soviet Union....
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Quinn-Judge, Paul July 4, 1994 700+ words
...a country like Iraq, Iran or Libya _ stealing the...plutonium. The former Soviet Union is the most attractive...the Russians possess. Iran, North Korea and Libya...community. In the former Soviet Union there are about 1,000...
- The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet...
- Magazine article from: Sarmatian Review McGinley, Theresa Kurk January 1, 2006 700+ words
...prosecutor at Nuremberg the Soviet Union blocked an attack against...citizens deported to the Soviet Union between 1939-1941...conditions inside the Soviet Union, surviving the "amnesty...East, particularly in Iran, Iraq, and India...
Source: HighBeam Research, Our imaginary foe.(Looking East)