tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 2/4/2009
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Uh-oh. The Obama administration's first big gesture toward Tehran is to dispatch a women's badminton team to help build cultural ties:
The Obama administration is sending a women’s badminton team to Iran this week as part of a broad bid to engage the Iranian people through educational and ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 2/3/2009
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Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite
into orbit, state media reports. TV commentary said Monday's...
night-time launch on a Safir-2 rocket was "another achievement for Iranian scientists under sanctions". The satellite was designed for ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran launches homegrown satellite
longwarjournal.org - 2/4/2009
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longwarjournal.org —
Eighteen of the 85 terrorists wanted by Saudi
Arabia. Reuters photo. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia released a list...
of 85 "most-wanted" terrorists. The list includes 11 former Guantánamo detainees who were placed in Saudi Arabia's ...
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Saudi Arabia's most-wanted
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Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: The Obama vs. Pelosi Grudgematch
Doug Ross @ Journal —
[image] Dodd's "now you see it, now you don't" loan disclosure : WSJ Thank you, Mr. Daschle : Maggie's Farm Badminton Diplomacy : TigerHawk How to handle toxic asset purchases : Kedrosky An Obamaplosion: I hope he can change : Victor Davis Hanson Bush may be gone, but BDS lives on : PJM (Dodge) So, can we question their patriotism yet? : Gateway Was Obama negotiating with Al Qaeda before the election? : STACLU It's official: Pelosi dumber than a bag of hammers : Transsylvania Phoenix Blago: Obama may be ...
Weds. political links
Maggie's Farm —
... differently.
Welcome to the big leagues, Obama. Dr. Clouthier says "Try to act Presidential." There is something light-weight, casual, and un-serious about his manner and his comments.
A State's Rights resolution from NH. Good stuff.
Daniel Pearl and the normalization of evil. WSJ
Busheron! Neocons attack Obama for doing to defence what they did to America's culture
Well, Badminton sounds like a great idea. But the Iranians want to play Badminton ...
Obama’s Appeasement Video To Iran Didn’t Do Squat
Flopping Aces —
... is the great satan. That is what their whole regime is based on. The evil of the west and of Democracy.
I mean come on, over the last twenty years the Iranians have said “hey, just do this and we will sit down with you,” and once we did what they required they gave us the middle finger. Kenneth Pollack’s book, The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America, describes some of this during the Clinton administration: (h/t Tigerhawk)
In truth, many American officials, myself among them, were ...
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Last, last chance for diplomacy with Iran
counterterrorismblog.org 2/6/2009 — I wrote a piece for the Middle East TImes on the slim chances of a potential resolution of the Iranian nuclear file through diplomacy at this time.
You can read the full article here .
Here is an excerpt:
This coming week, for an umpteenth time ...
11% Say U.S. Should Apologize To Iran
rasmussenreports.com 2/2/2009 — Just 11% of U.S. voters think America should apologize to Iran for “crimes” against the Islamic country – one of the prerequisites demanded by the Iranian president before he will agree to meet with President Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen ...
Obama on a Nuclear Iran: Yes They Can?
weeklystandard.com 1/27/2009 — From Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya :
Q Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important ...
Obama to the mullahs: We have so much in common, let's be friends
jihadwatch.org 3/20/2009 —
"There will be no more stupidity, no more mistakes. It's a new day. God help you all." -- the sinister new President in his Inaugural Address, in the movie Masked and Anonymous
"God help you all" indeed. Obama's message to Iran, delivered ...
How Iran Views Obama
powerlineblog.com 3/24/2009 — Barack Obama sent Iran's mullahs a video valentine on the occasion of the Iranian new year. What did the mullahs make of it? Stratfor evaluates Obama's overture from Iran's perspective:
From the Iranian point of view, the United States has ...
But, but . . . We've DONE All That
corner.nationalreview.com 1/29/2009 — I'll keep this short, in the interests of my impressive blood pressure. There are two "stories" about Iran/U.S. relations bubbling around. One has to do with direct talks, the other with Ahmadinejad's demand that we apologize for our many past ...
Could Khatami be Iran's Obama?
juancole.com 2/10/2009 — You have an economy in shambles, increasing international isolation, the danger of further wars, an unpopular millenarian president who thinks God put him in office to reshape the world, and an alarmed public across the board. And you have a liberal ...
Eric Margolis: How Obama Can Further U.S.-Iran Relations
huffingtonpost.com 2/24/2009 —
Eric S. Margolis
Special for the Huffington Post
February 23, 2009
Paris - Iran is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its historic 1979 Islamic revolution, a seismic event that shocked Washington and changed the political landscape of ...
President Neophyte On Iran During The Fear Speech
stoptheaclu.com 2/10/2009 — So, how does Barry want to deal with Iran? Let's go to the transcript, which CNN scrubbed of all the um's and ah's and big pauses, sounding like a single dad trying to explain the birds and the bees to his daughter
Question: Thank you, Mr. President. ...
Iran: American apology in order
swamppolitics.com 1/28/2009 — by Mark Silva
Perhaps this is what happens when the United States attempts to open a dialog with Iran:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demands an apology.
The vituperative Iranian president, delivering his first public address since President Barack ...
U.S.-Iran tension over... badminton? —
First Read 2/4/2009
From NBC's Libby LeistThe State Department confirms that the USA Badminton team has been forced to cancel its trip to Iran because Iranian officials did not issue the team visas in time for the tournament that begins tomorrow.
The State Department is ...
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