December 6, 2006 COMMENTARY BY: Suzanne Chang TOPICS: Foreign Policy, Responding to Upheaval in the Arab World
In a report for The Century Foundation, Gareth Smyth, Tehran Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, explores the relationship between the nation’s domestic politics and the nuclear issue. The paper illustrates and analyses how Iran’s political class and leadership sees the nuclear program and the world beyond its borders, and offers insights for international engagement.

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