ELN Policy Fellow Sahil Shah spoke to Al Jazeera Inside Story about the new challenges for the Biden administration regarding Iran. He noted, that Iran demonstrated “immense strategic restraint and patience”, contrary to many media outlets. The whole video can be found here.
Tanya Ogilvie-White writes that South Korea is becoming increasingly isolated from its Asia-Pacific security partners – Japan, Australia, the US, and the UK – in the way that it views the threat from North Korea. South Korea’s regional security partners’ increased focus on China and lessened attention on North Korea’s nuclear programme, risks isolating South Korea and undermining proliferation norms. Ogilvie-White argues that heightened collaborations are needed to avoid this.
On 22 April Iran successfully launched its first military satellite, unveiling its parallel IRGC-run space program for the first time. Is Iran embarking on a hedging strategy aimed at acquiring long-range ballistic missile technology?
On the eve of the tenth Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, the P5 should establish a regular, open-ended and sustained dialogue process on strategic risk reduction to improve the international security environment.