Iran report

December 2007
The US intelligence report saying that Iran had halted a nuclear weapons programme in 2003 will make it much more difficult for the Bush administration to mobilise support for its anti-Iran hysteria. We are likely to see a battle between the Vice President Cheney and the intelligence agencies, and that is not going to be a pretty sight.

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Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of both TNI and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC where she directs IPS's New Internationalism Project. Phyllis specialises in U.S. foreign policy issues, particularly involving the Middle East and United Nations. She worked as a journalist at the UN for ten years and currently serves as a special adviser to several top-level UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues. A frequent contributor to U.S. and global media, Phyllis is also the author of numerous articles and books, particularly on Palestine, Iraq, the UN, and U.S. foreign policy.