huffingtonpost.com - 12/13/2008
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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 June.
But Iranian political analysts who ...
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telegraph.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has branded
US PresidentElect Barack Obama's comments on Tehran's nuclear activities
as "cowboy" talk the ISNA news agency reported.
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Iran accuses Barack Obama of 'cowboy talk'
washingtontimes.com - 12/11/2008
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washingtontimes.com —
By: Gene44 One can only guess that he
is a liberal democrat who picks out what he
wants from all the intelligence reports. Trust, but verify and Iran has refused verification by the IAEA who did not know North Korean was building bombs until after ...
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Official stands by Iran nuke report
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Iran to Obama - Faster, Please!
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... Our friend Gareth Porter of IPS News has been talking to a wide variety of Iranian leadership figures, both hardliners and more moderate, and the consensus appears to be that Obama should strike while the iron is hot in opening negotiations - and cut out the middleman. ...
Clinton Exposes Negotiation Pretense
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