nytimes.com - 2/10/2009
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Mr. Ahmadinejad spoke at a rally on Tuesday in Tehran marking the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in 1979.
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com —
Most political blog readers will remember the storm
of controversy that erupted in early December 2007, when...
a new American "National Intelligence Assessment" claimed that Iran had stopped development of a nuclear weapon in 2003. The New York Times ...
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Now they tell us: Iran is pursuing a bomb
democracyarsenal.org - 2/11/2009
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democracyarsenal.org —
Joe Klein makes the following argument about how
we should approach Iran: the approach to Iran is...
best made carefully, circuitously. We need to make a deal with Russians first--the obvious one is suspending any plans for an anti-missile system in ...
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Don't Wait Until the Iranian Election
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President Neophyte On Iran During The Fear Speech
Pirate's Cove —
... envoy to help deal with the Arab-Israeli situation, some of the interviews that I’ve given, it indicates the degree to which we want to do things differently in the region. (Yes, capitulation is change)
Now it’s time for Iran to send some signals that it wants to act differently, as well, and recognize that, even as it has some rights as a member of the international community, with those rights come responsibilities.
And what are some of those signals?
TEHRAN ...
President Neophyte On Iran During The Fear Speech
Stop The ACLU —
... East, my designation of George Mitchell as a special envoy to help deal with the Arab-Israeli situation, some of the interviews that I’ve given, it indicates the degree to which we want to do things differently in the region. (Yes, capitulation is change) Now it’s time for Iran to send some signals that it wants to act differently, as well, and recognize that, even as it has some rights as a member of the international community, with those rights come responsibilities. And what are some of those signals ? TEHRAN — After the icy mutual hostility of the Bush era, President ...
Iran Ready for Talks with United States
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... But as the New York Times notes, "he coupled the offer with an attack on former President Bush,
calling for him to be 'tried and punished' for his policies and actions
in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region." ...
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