What Does It Mean that 120 Countries are Rejecting US/Israeli Pressure to Isolate Iran?
Channel: SACSIS
Date: 2012-08-29

South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, is scheduled to attend the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran, taking place on 30-31 August. As the US and Israel increase their efforts to isolate Iran (Israel is even ramping up talk of a military strike on Iran this year), South Africa joins 119 other countries at this major international event.

What does it mean that 120 countries are rejecting US/Israeli pressure to isolate Iran?

For answers to this question as well a discussion on US foreign policy and its 2012 presidential election, SACSIS' executive director, Fazila Farouk spoke to Prof. Juan Cole.

Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and a specialist on Middle East issues. He blogs at Informed Comment.