Thursday, April 29, 2010While the sanctions have faced challenges in t...

Thursday, April 29, 2010While the sanctions have faced challenges in the United Nations and among individual countries, and have been largely limited to sanctioning individual entities and individuals, NATO has taken a different tack with respect to Iran. The text of the Statement on NATO-Iranian Security Cooperation made in April 2009 in Tehran by then-U.S. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reads in part as follows:"NATO has been open to dialogue with Iran about regional security and has opened a dialogue with the Iranian leadership. Our commitment to Iran is not