Iran: Balancing East against West

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 51-65

  Vakil, Sanam ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748121560     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: 15309177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/wash.2006.29.4.51     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Jalal al-Ahmad, Gharbzadegi: Weststruckness, trans. John Green and Ahmad Alizadeh, reissue ed. (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1997).
2. Ray Takeyh, "Iran: Assessing Geopolitical Dynamics and U.S. Policy Options," testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services, June 8, 2006.
3. For a more complete discussion, see Flynt Leverett and Jeffrey Bader, "Managing U.S.-China Energy Competition in the Middle East," The Washington Quarterly 29, no. 1 (Winter 2005-2006): 187-201.
4. "China to Become Iran's Primary Trade Partner: Chinese Envoy," Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), January 17, 2006, http://www.irna.ir.en/news/view/menu-234/0601166176233040.htm.
5. Ibid.
6. Robert Scott, "Trade Picture," February 10, 2006, http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/ webfeatures_econindicators_tradepict20060210.
7. Robin Wright, "U.S. Veto Fears as China-Iran Links Grow Stronger," Standard, November 19, 2004, http://www.thestandard.com.hk/ news_detail.asp?pp_cat=&art_id=13689&sid=&con_type= l&d_str=20041119&sear_year=2004.
8. "Attempts to Break UN Impasse on Iran Stall," Reuters, March 23, 2006.
9. For a more complete discussion, see Dingli Shen, "Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Tests Chinas Wisdom," The Washington Quarterly 29, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 55-66.
10. James Owen, "Russia and Iran: Old Neighbors and New Rivals," Open Democracy, March 30, 2006, http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/ article.jsp?id=6&debateId=28&articleId=3407.
11. For a complete discussion, see Vladimir Orlov and Alexander Vinnikov, "The Great Guessing Game: Russia and the Iranian Nuclear Issue," The Washington Quarterly 28, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 49-66.
12. For a more complete discussion, see Hannes Adomeit, "Russia's Iran Policy," SWP Comments, no. 9 (March 2006): 1-4, http://www.swp-berlin.org/common/ get_document.php?id=1621&PHPSESSID=76aced9dffe4884ba35225588bb2e684.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Glenn Klesser, "Rice to Focus on Broad Concerns About Iran," Washington Post, March 30, 2006, p. A16.
17. Anthony Cordesman, "Iran's Developing Military Capabilities" (working paper, CSIS, Washington, D.C., 2004), http://www.csis.org/burke/ mb/041208_IranDevMil-CapExecSum.pdf.
18. Paranjoy Guha Thakutta, "India's Iranian Gas," Asia Times, February 15, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia.
19. Embassy of India, "Reply by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to the Lok Sabha (House of the People) Debate on India's Vote at the JAEA on Iran's Nuclear Programme," Washington, D.C., March 6, 2006. http://www.indianembassy.org/newsite/press_release/2006/Mar/22.asp.
20. Sergei Blagov, "The Geopolitical Balance in Central Asia Tilts Towards Russia," Eurasia Insight, July 6, 2005, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav070605a.shtml.
21. Ibid.
22. "Iran Ready to Continue Cooperation With IAEA," IRNA, March 30, 2006, http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0603306512173004.htm.
23. For more information, see http://usinfo.state.gov/mena/Archive/2006/Feb/ 15-116807.html.
24. Iran Freedom Support Act of 2005, HR 282, 109th Cong., 1st sess.;
25. Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2005, S 333, 109th Cong., 1st sess.
26. James Phillips, "Dealing With Iran's Resurgent Hardliners," Executive Memorandum, no. 977 (August 11, 2005), http://www.heritage.org/ Research/MiddleEast/em977.cfm.
27. "Statement of the Honorable R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State, Reauthorization of the Iran Libya Sanctions Act," U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, June 22, 2006.