nytimes.com - 22 days ago
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NEW YORK — In his last month as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei finds himself at the explosive crux of the world’s nuclear politics, ferrying messages between the Obama administration and Tehran. “They are talking through me,” he says. Talking is something, even ...
nytimes.com - 18 days ago
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WASHINGTON The Obama administration, attempting to salvage
a faltering nuclear deal with Iran , has told...
Iran’s leaders in back-channel messages that it is willing to allow the country to send its stockpile of enriched uranium to any of several ...
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Iran Said to Ignore Effort to Salvage Nuclear Deal
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 26 days ago
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It was near the end of a meeting
Wednesday between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a group...
of university students when the man who is Iran's highest political and spiritual authority asked if there were any other questions. He spotted...
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IRAN: Concern over fate of star student who spoke out to ...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 21 days ago
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Iran is testing advanced nuclear warhead technology: The
UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence...
suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point ...
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Iranian Protestors Call to President Obama for Support
Political Punch —
... . Some are concerned that the President’s condemnation of violence and simultaneous appeals of partnership with Iran may not be enough to answer the protestors appeal. The New York Times’ Roger Cohen said today in an Opinion article that time is running out. “The window is narrowing for the president to show that outreach can normalize the psychotic U.S.-Iranian relationship where confrontation only comforts it,” Cohen said . --Jordyn Phelps November 5, 2009 | ...
Roger Friedman: Are US and Iran Close To Nuclear Deal?
TPMCafe —
... Anyway, today in this column, Roger Cohen interviews Mohammed ElBaradei, in his last month as chief of the International Atomic Energy Commission. ElBaradei believes that the United States and Iran are close to an agreement on the whole nuclear issue and that both sides should move quickly to wrap it up (especially with the Israelis threatening an attack by Christmas that would both fail and embroil the world in war). ...
US and Iran Close To Nuclear Deal
TPMCafe —
... Anyway, in this column, Roger Cohen interviews Mohammed ElBaradei, in his last month as chief of the International Atomic Energy Commission. ElBaradei believes that the United States and Iran are close to an agreement on the whole nuclear issue and that both sides should move quickly to wrap it up (especially with the Israelis threatening an attack by Christmas that would both fail and embroil the world in war). ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Christie never explained how he can reduce property taxes given New Jersey’s dire fiscal straits — but voters were nonetheless willing to take a flier. This bodes ill for the Democrats in the midterm elections next year — not because voters will reject their agenda, but because all indications are that a year from now unemployment will still be painfully high. And Republicans may well benefit, despite having become the party of no ideas. Roger Cohen: Talking is something, even through a mediator, ...
Sharmine Narwani: Eleventh-hour CPR On Iran Nuclear Talks
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... After disclosing the existence of the Fordow facility in September, Iran invited the IAEA to conduct a full inspection of the site. In advance of the highly anticipated report on its findings, IAEA Director General Muhammad ElBaradei told the New York Times columnist Roger Cohen that inspectors had found "nothing to be worried about. The idea was to use it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things," he explained, referring to Iran's claims that the plant would act as a back-up facility if Israel follows through with threats to attack the country's primary ...
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/4/2009 — It looks like President Obama may be on the verge of ending the standoff with Iran over its nuclear development program.
This is from the New York Times: "Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its ...
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US and Iran Close To Nuclear Deal
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 20 days ago — Roger Cohen is, in my opinion, the best New York Times columnist because he (along with Krugman) are the only ones who thinks outside the box. (Friedman designed the box).
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powerlineblog.com 10/20/2009 — This morning, I noted that Iran's government is telling the Iranian people that the Obama administration has consented to Iranian enrichment of uranium, thereby dismaying our European allies. I linked to, but did not discuss in detail, a Time article ...
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outsidethebeltway.com 23 days ago — In her address yesterday to a joint session of Congress German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her country’s insistence that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment program in compliance with multiple United Nations Security Council ...
IAEA found nothing serious at Iran site: ElBaradei
reuters.com 22 days ago — VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Mohamed ElBaradei also ...
Containing a Nuclear Iran
newsweek.com 10/5/2009 — It is time to clarify the debate over Iran and its nuclear program. It's easy to criticize the current course adopted by the United States and its allies, to huff and puff about Iranian mendacity, to point out that Russia and China won't agree to ...
Lieberman on Iran
weeklystandard.com 10/2/2009 — Joementum talked Iran this morning at an AEI/Brookings event on the Hill this morning. Lieberman is skeptical, to say the least, of the prospects that any real progress will be made on the nuclear issue at today's P5 +1 meetings:
I have supported ...
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