Abbas Maleki

Summer 2006

"Iran: Appearances Can Be Deceiving"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement that his country has completed a uranium enrichment cycle was met with great fanfare in the country, and much worry around the world.

June 15, 2006

"Finding Compromise in Iran"

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project

"...If Iran is willing to agree to a deal under which it would remain legally committed not to build nuclear weapons, no more centrifuges would be added, and extensive verification would be allowed, that would be far better for US security than letting insistence on zero propel a drift toward confrontation. After all, failure to reach agreement would mean no limit on Iran's centrifuges, and a drift in the direction of sanctions and potential military strikes, with all the dangers they would hold...."

May 14, 2006

Jack Straw and Understanding Iran

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Shargh, (East)

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program

May 10, 2006

"Iran Is Eager to Defuse the Nuclear Squabble"

Op-Ed, Financial Times

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program

"...the general public does not consider the nuclear issue to be of vital importance. Nuclear technology will do little for the average Iranian — it cannot create more jobs for a country that needs 1m jobs annually, it cannot change the chronic low efficiency, productivity and effectiveness of the economy and management, and it will do nothing to improve Iran's commercial ties with the rest of the world...."

March 23, 2006

"Finding a Way Out of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis"

Paper

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project

"...Rather than rushing toward confrontation with all its risks, all sides must put historic antipathies aside and find face-saving solutions. To give the Iranian advocates of compromise a chance to succeed, the United States and the other major powers need to put offers on the table that will show the people of Iran that nuclear restraint and compliance will put their nation on a path toward peace and prosperity."

March 2006

"What Washington Can Do About Iran"

Journal Article, Heartland: Eurasian Review of Geopolitics, (Defusing Tehran Issue), issue 2

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program

With Saddam and the Talibans out of the scene and US troops entangled in Iraq, Teheran's aspiration for a new regional centrality skyrockets, together with its nuclear ambitions. Is Ahmadinejad to lead the game in the Middle East? America's options and Iran's constraints.

October 10-12, 2005

"Extremism in Islamic Shi'ite's Faith"

Presentation

By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program