Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions and the Promise of Security Cooperation in the Middle East
Over the past thirty years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has perceived a mounting regional and global threat to its national security. Its quest for hegemony, regional instability and unreliability, and the relative weakness of its conventional military force, coupled with perceived threats from Israel and the United States has molded Iran’s security doctrine into [...]
Obama Scraps Leases for Oil-Shale Development
Washington Post.
SALT LAKE CITY — In his second reversal of a Bush administration decision, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday that he is scrapping leases for oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Salazar rescinded a lease offer made last month for research, development and demonstration projects that could have led to oil-shale [...]
