tonykaron.com - 10/20/2008
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Trita Parsi: In public, Israeli leaders have spoken in apocalyptic terms of Iran's nuclear program, but among themselves, they know better.
haaretz.com - 10/22/2008
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haaretz.com —
Senior Tehran officials are recommending a preemptive strike
against Israel to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran's...
nuclear reactors, a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London. The official, Dr. Seyed G. Safavi, ...
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Top Iran officials recommend preemptive ...
nypost.com - 10/20/2008
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nypost.com —
Posted: 4:51 am October 20, 2008 IF Sen.
Barack Obama is elected president, our re public will...
survive, but our international strategy and some of our allies may not. His first year in office would conjure globe-spanning challenges as our enemies ...
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AMERICA THE WEAK - New York Post
breitbart.com - 10/20/2008
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breitbart.com —
Security forces in Natanz have arrested two suspected
"spy pigeons" near Iran's controversial uranium enrichment facility, the...
reformist Etemad Melli newspaper reported on Monday. One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in ...
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Iran busts 'spy pigeons' near nuclear site
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Former Embassy Hostage - Obama's Right On Iran
Newshoggers.com —
... Reagan. But he succeeded in resolving the crisis without resort to war... Remember, Tomseth was one of those hostages, held for 444 days. He was no casual observer.
Meanwhile, even Israel appears to be coming around to the idea that negotiating with Iran makes sense - leaving McCain and the neocons entirely isolated out on the belligerent fringe of world opinion. Trita Parsi, co-founder and current President of the National Iranian American Council, writes at Rootless Cosmopolitan: On the eve of his departure from political ...
Former Embassy Hostage - Obama's Right On Iran
Crooks and Liars —
... Reagan. But he succeeded in resolving the crisis without resort to war...
Remember, Tomseth was one of those hostages, held for 444 days. He was no casual observer.
Meanwhile, even Israel appears to be coming around to the idea that negotiating with Iran makes sense - leaving McCain and the neocons entirely isolated out on the belligerent fringe of world opinion. Trita Parsi, co-founder and current President of the National Iranian American Council, writes at Rootless Cosmopolitan:
On the eve of his departure from political ...
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