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"Nuclear Decision-Making in Iran: A Rare Glimpse"

Middle East Brief

Paper 5, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

May 2006

Author: Chen Zak Kane, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Public Policy

 

"On April 19, 2006, Iran's former secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Hassan Rohani, publicly criticized his successor's handling of their country's nuclear negotiations with the West. In what was, for Iran, a rare public expression of discontent, he called for 'more balance in our decisions and [the need] to approach the issue with more reason and less emotion. . . .' "

 

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Full text of this publication is available at:
http://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications1/meb/MEB5.pdf

For Academic Citation:

Kane, Chen Zak. "Nuclear Decision-Making in Iran: A Rare Glimpse." Paper, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, May 2006.

Document Length: 10 pp.

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