Blog InFacts, 22.07.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (UE-ONU)No prizes for guessing what the most pressing foreign policy challenge for Britain’s new Prime Minister will be when he enters No 10 on Wednesday. And it will not be Brexit, all consuming though that issue often seems to our...
Mala pinta
Columna El Confidencial, 22.07.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
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Trump no quiere otra guerra en Oriente Medio, cuando lo que desea es salir de ese avispero en el que su país lleva años enzarzado sin ningún éxito notable
The USA ceased to be a great nation
Carta OpinionGlobal, 21.07.2019 Riade Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y consul honorario de Chile en BeirutIn recent days, Middle Eastern residents involved in the US-Iranian conflict have been holding their breath, expecting an incident that could spark a devastating military confrontation. Although such a war is not in the immediate interest of the second term presidential campaign of Donald...
Will Iran ‘break out’ for a nuclear weapon, and what can Trump do?
Columna The Hill, 14.07.2019 Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Washington Institute for Near East PolicyIran is beginning to breach some of the limitations imposed on its nuclear program by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which it signed in 2015 and from which the United States withdrew in 2018. Initially, Iran exceeded the...
Iran’s shock therapy breaks JCPOA stalemate
Columna Indian Punchline, 08.07.2019 Melkulangara K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático indio y analista internacional de varios mediosA series of announcements in Tehran through the past week took the situation around the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) — and the US-Iranian standoff — to an inflection point. On July 1, it transpired that Iran has exceeded the...
Democrats can show Trump the way to avoid war with Iran
Columna The Hill, 26.06.2019 Bennis B. Ross, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)The old saying that “politics stops at the water’s edge” seems quaint in today’s polarized political world. Bipartisanship is hard to find anywhere, and foreign policy is no exception. President Trump has certainly deepened the divisions on national security, but he did not...
Dos varas de medir
Columna El Confidencial, 03.07.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
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Mientras EEUU amenaza y trata de ahogar a Irán, que no posee bombas nucleares, Trump dialoga con Kim Jong-un, que posee esas bombas y que no parece dispuesto a renunciar a ellas
El programa militar-nuclear iraní, otra vez en el centro de la controversia
Columna Infobae, 23.06.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoLa escalada de tensión con Irán se ha traducido en riesgos concretos para la seguridad de Medio Oriente, con un escenario prebélico. La expansión de la presencia iraní en la región y el programa militar nuclear están en el centro de la controversia. Las...
A Deal Trump and Khamenei Could Make
Columna Bloomberg, 29.05.2019 Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano
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Iran says it won’t negotiate with Washington under pressure, but it has done so in the past and might again
Flattering Trump is no substitute for close EU partners
Blog InFacts, 30.05.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (UE-ONU)After several days of raking over the ashes of the European Parliament elections and being subjected to the sighting shots in the forthcoming Conservative leadership election, it is perhaps time to focus on a different, but not entirely disconnected, issue:...