Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Washington Times, "Iran Hits Bush Trip as Unwelcome."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Washington Times, "Iran Hits Bush Trip as Unwelcome."
President Bush will be following in some unlikely footsteps on his eight-day, seven-stop Mideast tour that starts tomorrow.
Iran's firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and other top officials of the Islamic republic have paid visits to a number of leading Arab states in recent weeks, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar. [...]
"There is great uncertainty as to what the [U.S. intelligence estimate] was, with one conspiracy theory after another about it" in the region, said Anthony H. Cordesman, a national security analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). "And the president is certainly going to be asked about that."
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