As attempts are underway to sabotage a nuclear deal between Iran and the global powers by subterfuge of all kinds, former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is the rational player in the room thanks to his anti-war stance towards Tehran, a geopolitical commentator says. Gates said earlier on Monday that war on Iran would not be an alternative ...

The arguments for and against the Obama administrations anticipated nomination of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary seem to turn on the premise that he would represent a dramatic shift on defense spending and on two major foreign policy issues: Iran and Israel. The merits of those policies aside for the moment, lets look at the dramatic shift component ...

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates raised his concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions and warned against an Iranian threat in the region on Thursday in ?stanbul. Speaking at the first Caspian Forum organized by the Caspian Strategy Institute, Gates said his view is that the real purpose of the Iranian nuclear program is to have nuclear ...