Epstein Secrets

pan during the Second World War still remain in their constitutions, especially in relation to the manufacture and deployment of weapons. Although the Soviet Union collapsed two decades ago, some of the sanctions imposed on it, mostly related to dual-use technology and equipment, affected Russia for many years

by the UN, EU and the US could take decades to lift. In fact, some may never be lifted. Amir Taheri was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979. Mr. Taheri has won several prizes for his journalism, and in 2012 was named International Journalist of the Year by the

ill having made great strides toward nuclear capability. Such seemingly sober calculations miss the fact that the United States is not dealing with the Soviet Union but a beleaguered middling power that may still be coerced into more expansive concessions. In more than a decade of nuclear diplomacy, some analy

many concessions, but has received very little in return. Some figures like Hossein Shariatmadari, Khamenei's appointee and the managing editor of "Kayhan", a conservative mouthpiece newspaper, have attacked the deal in the Iranian press. Shariatmadari wrote in an editorial that the text of the Accord

of Armageddon concentrated minds and helped prevent (or at least postpone) its occurrence. Credit for the Long Peace, therefore, belongs as much to the Soviet Union as to the United States—and perhaps to the nuclear scientists on both sides who so diligently built up their deadly arsenals. Kagan's corollary, t

raightforward because it aims at the annexation of the archipelago on the basis of Iran's historic claims. In an editorial last Tuesday, the daily Kayhan, published by Khamenei's office, had a front page banner headline asserting that "Bahrain Is A Piece of Iran's Body". The editorial claimed, "A ma