washingtonindependent.com - 11/13/2008
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Let’s say you’re a high-ranking figure in the Iranian religious-political establishment. For 30 years, you’ve used U.S. bellicosity as an excuse for social repression. “How can we relax restrictions on organizing and demonstrating? After all, the Great Satan schemes to destroy Iran!” is your ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 11/17/2008
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On Saturday, in what has become one of
the rituals of Iraqi politics, a delegation of Shiite...
lawmakers and government officials met with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani to review the latest changes to the status of forces agreement. According to “ ...
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Ware On SOFA Negotiations: ‘Tehran Was In The Room’
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 11/13/2008
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Another Campaign Promise Broken-- Obama announced at the
CNN YouTube debate last year that he would be...
willing to meet with the world's dictators including the Iranian regime in his first year in office. Here's the video: Here is the transcript ...
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Scrubbed... Obama's "Talks Without Preconditions" Line ...
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Iran doesn't want to take 'yes' for an answer
Political Animal —
... clerics who rule the country came to power after ousting Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a U.S.-backed autocrat, in their 1979 Islamic revolution. Opposition to the United States, long vilified as the "great Satan" here in Friday sermons, remains one of the main pillars of Iranian politics. It often goes unsaid but Iranian leaders want, and apparently need, tensions with the U.S. to justify their existence. The Bush administration has made conditions easier for Iran, not harder. As Spencer Ackerman noted , Obama's willingness to engage Iran diplomatically puts the country's ...
All Politics Is Local, Even In Iran
Newshoggers.com —
... But it's Ed who is missing the point. As Spencer Ackerman points out, Obama is more of a threat to those mullahs than Bush ever was. If you're an intransigent theocon Iranian leader: ...
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Add Mohammed el-Baradei to the list of those welcoming Obama's statements that he'd talk to Iran . "If there is a direct dialogue between the United States and Iran, I think Iran will be more forthcoming with the agency," IAEA Director ...
American Foreign Policy Project
americanforeignpolicy.org 11/17/2008 — Among the many challenges that will greet President-elect Obama when he takes office, there are few, if any, more urgent and complex than the question of Iran. There are also few issues more clouded by myths and misconceptions. In this Joint Experts' ...
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juancole.com 11/8/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that "Iran's development of a nuclear weapon, I believe is unacceptable. . . Iran's support of terrorist organizations, I think is something that has to cease." What I cannot understand is why American ...
D.C. Establishment Pressuring Obama on Iran?
newshoggers.com 12/5/2008 — By Cernig
There's a rapidly developing consensus among Washington's Very Serious person set that Obama's plans to negotiate with Iran should get only one try, and if that fails then the bombing should begin.
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Iran News Round Up
corner.nationalreview.com 10/21/2008 — [(E) signifies English link]
Diplomacy
Former Islamic Republic foreign minister Ebrahim Yazdi: "One of my grandchildren is active in the [U.S. presidential candidate] Obama campaign and asked me to meet Obama, but since I did not consider a ...
Iranian Analysts Urge Obama To Start Negotiations Immediately
huffingtonpost.com 12/13/2008 — TEHRAN, Dec 11 (IPS) - In light of the Iranian presidential election coming in mid-2009 and the U.S. distaste for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President-elect Barack Obama is being advised to avoid any communication with Tehran until after Iranians vote next ...
Those pending races, & Senate History 101 —
First Read 11/13/2008
From NBC's Ken StricklandIf the contested elections of the Minnesota, Alaska, and Georgia Senate races aren't resolved before the new Congress convenes in January, the Senate has the power to seat someone to the position until the matter is resolved. ...
Treasury adds to Myanmar drug trafficker list —
Reuters: Politics 11/13/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday added the names of 26 people and 17 companies linked to Myanmar's military government to its list of accused traffickers of opium, the raw material of heroin, and other drugs.
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