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anks of Washington's think EFTA00712796 tank world, as the head of the foreign-policy program at the Brookings Institution. (He also founded both Brookings's Saban Center for Middle East Policy and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.) Indyk -- who k_d early U.S. efforts to get Libya's Muamm

der Strobe Talbott's leadership, the Brookings Institution has been consistently ranked Washington's most influential think tank. Talbott landed at Brookings after a long career that has included stints as both a journalist -- he was a correspondent and editor at Time magazine for decades, as well as the

months for talks on the issue. (Although Iran dismissed a U.S. offer to meet at an Istanbul summit in April, Sherman and her Iranian counterpart, Saeed Jalili, briefly "paused to chat" at a Baghdad meeting the following month.) Hillary Clinton has also called on the undersecretary to play a role in U.S. n

ections. It was at this time, Mousavian said, that Iran, now under Khamenei, decided "to go for self-sufficiency for fuel." The reason, he said at Brookings, was that the French halted a prior enrichment agreement. Under that plan, Iran paid $1.2 billion for a joint facility inside France. But technical

on the proposal" from Western nations for Iran to export its supply of 20 percent- enriched uranium as a first step toward a broader nuclear deal. Saeed Jalili, the Iranian chief representative in the talks, made the comment in a phone conversation Monday night with Catherine Ashton, the chief European Uni

risk in waiting. "If the Jordanian regime keeps dragging its feet on popular reforms, you will see more and more frustration," says Shadi Hamid of Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. "That's why it isn't as stable as like to think." Artick 3. Foreign Policy Saudi Arabia Is Arming the Syrian thnualihm J

st likely pragmatic conservative presidential candidate. Much less clear at this point is who will be the favorite hardline candidate. The name of Saeed Jalili, Iran's current nuclear negotiator, has been EFTA00686812 mentioned, but generally there are few hardliners with national exposure. Other names m