BASIC's Program Director Anne Penketh is interviewed by Elizabeth Whitman in this article covering the slow pace of progress toward holding a conference on a WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East in 2012.
Interview
Leading Experts on NATO’s Nuclear Policy and Turkish Security [JTW Interview]
“The threat perceptions of Turkey and the other NATO alliances are overlapped to some extent but not completely……. That's where the real debate inside NATO comes from; it's from differing threat perceptions.”
Dr Ian Kearns, BASIC's Research Director was interviewed after the roundtable along with other particpants.
Read more: “http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/108218/-jtw-interview-leading-experts-…“>
Arabs seek to challenge Israel’s nuclear program at energy summit
“The Israelis and the Americans point to the fact that the Iranians have made a very public commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty – not to acquire nuclear weapons – whereas Israel is legally able to develop its arsenal.”….. “But the legal defense and the defense that Israel developed its weapons a while ago is hardly a defense in terms of justice”
Tony Blair’s Book Offers Insights on Alliances
BASIC’s Research Director, Dr Ian Kearns was interviewed by Traci Watson for USA TODAY.
“It is the right time to be withdrawing from Iraq”
“If the Americans did care about stability in Iraq and if they thought they could influence it, it’s the wrong time. It’s an admission, in a way, that they never had the capacity to bring stability to Iraq.”
BASIC's Executive Director, Paul Ingram interviewed by RT News. Read more and watch the video:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-08-31/time-withdraw-troops-iraq.html
USA is being irrational towards Iran – political analyst
“I think the whole point of what Admiral Mullen said over the weekend was to tell the Iranians that actually the Americans mean business. Otherwise, if you look at the timeline, we are not talking about any kind of military action anytime soon.”
BASIC Program Director Anne Penketh interviewed by RT News. Read more and watch video:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-08-02/usa-behaves-irrationally-iran.html?fullstory
“Intervention will harm Iran’s democratic movement”
“The demonization of Iran is such that it appears we are on a one-track punitive response even though few believe it will work but lack the imagination or belief in other options.”
Iran Says It Has Triple Amount of Enriched Uranium Found by UN in April
“It’s a game of threat from the Security Council and then a game of response by Iran, and they’re playing chicken with each other.”
BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram quoted in Bloomberg News. Read more: