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powerlineblog.com - 3/24/2009
How Iran Views Obama
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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 made two fundamental demands of Iran. The first ...
powerlineblog.com - 3/22/2009
Why I am depressed
— powerlineblog.com — Victor Davis Hanson asks why so many Americans are depressed . Suggesting five themes that might provide... an answer, he thinks it might be more than the economy that explains our state of mind. I agree, but none of Dr. Hanson's theme accounts for my ... (more) Why I am depressed

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Bret Stephens Says Barack Obama Needs to Listen to Iran's Bloggers
online.wsj.com - 3/24/2009
Bret Stephens Says Barack Obama Needs to Listen to Iran's Bloggers
— online.wsj.com — Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a... "great civilization" for "accomplishments" that "have earned the respect of the United States and the world." The death of Iranian blogger ... (more) Bret Stephens Says Barack Obama Needs to Listen to ...

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nytimes.com - 3/22/2009
Iran’s Supreme Leader Rebuffs Obama Message
— nytimes.com — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Obama administration should put an end to hostility toward Iran and bring... “real changes” in foreign policy. > (more) Iran’s Supreme Leader Rebuffs Obama Message

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Israel Matzav — Iran on Obama At Power Line, John Hinderaker posts an important Stratfor analysis on how the Iranian regime views the video message that was sent to it by President Obama last week. For Tehran, however, the suspension of sanctions is much too small a price to pay for major strategic concessions. First, the sanctions don't work very well. Sanctions only work when most powers are prepared to comply with them. Neither the Russians nor the Chinese [ nor the European s CiJ] are prepared to systematically comply with sanctions, so there is little that Iran can afford that it can't ...

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