t the State Department who is now at the Brookings Institution. "A confrontation over Ukraine could make such cooperation on Iran more difficult." Cliff Kupchan, an Iran expert at the Eurasia Group, said that without a nuclear deal, "the Crimean invasion makes it more likely that Russia would lead an effort

in Tehran, in The National Interest. "The reality is not that `Iran is on the verge of a choice between having a nuclear program or an economy,' as Cliff Kupchan, a senior analyst on the Middle East at the Eurasia Group, insists. [The] Islamic Republic will still rake in an estimated $40 billion from oil thi