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Iran's Nuclear Threat: Exploring the Politics

Dr. Farhang Jahanpour, June 2006

In the third of a series of occasional ORG briefing papers from key international commentators and experts, Dr. Farhang Jahanpour explores the rhetoric of aggression developing between Iran and the USA and Israel, and asks if war is really inevitable?

Farhang Jahanpour, a British national of Iranian origin, is a former Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan, and a part-time tutor in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, where he teaches courses on religion and politics in the Middle East. Dr. Jahanpour also spent 18 years at the BBC Monitoring Service covering the news from Iran, the Middle East and North Africa.

Dr. Jahanpour has also prepared a Chronology of Iran's Nuclear Programme for the ORG website.