Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Reuters, "U.S. Seeks Talking Over War with Iran."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Reuters, "U.S. Seeks Talking Over War with Iran."
With just six months left in office, the Bush administration has done an about-face in joining talks with Tehran over its nuclear program, a move analysts say is driven partly by a desire to avoid war with Iran.
For years, the Bush administration said it would join nuclear talks with Iran only if it gave up uranium enrichment, but with President George W. Bush's term ending in January and tensions rising with Tehran, Washington feels it cannot afford to be excluded.
"The administration does not want a conflict. It has been made emphatically clear that the U.S. is pursuing a diplomatic option," said Anthony Cordesman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. Read the article
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