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Foreign Reports in the Media:
PBS Frontline’s Tehran Bureau published the ”2012 Iranian Oil Survey,” by Matthew M. Reed, on May 9, 2012.
Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius quoted Nat Kern and Foreign Reports bulletins on April 9 in “The Squeeze on Iran.” Ignatius also quoted Kern in his April 6 column, “Obama’s Signal to Iran.”
On January 10, 2012, Foreign Policy published ”The unexpected logic of the EU’s ban on Iranian oil,” by Reed.
Reed analyzed Turkish-Syrian relations in the November 17, 2011 edition of the Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor (PDF).
Kern participated as a panelist at a Middle East Policy Council conference, “Gulf Oil and Gas: What are the Producers Thinking?” on April 22, 2010. The event was part of the Council’s Capitol Hill Conference Series on U.S. Middle East Policy. Video of Mr. Kern’s remarks can be seen in parts two and three. See also: transcript.
