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news.bbc.co.uk - 3/20/2009

BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama offers Iran 'new beginning'

— news.bbc.co.uk — Paul Reynolds, World affairs correspondent President Barack Obama's video message is an imaginative start to his attempt... to improve relations - but huge obstacles remain. In diplomacy such efforts at overcoming major differences sometimes end simply ... (more) BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama offers Iran 'new beginning'

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telegraph.co.uk - 3/20/2009

Iran responds to Barack Obama's video appeal with nuclear pledge

— telegraph.co.uk — Mr Obama sent Iran an unprecedented videotaped message offering a fresh start in diplomatic engagement after decades... of US hostility to the Islamic Republic. He went further than he has since taking office on Jan 20 in extending an olive branch to ... (more) Iran responds to Barack Obama's video appeal with ...

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walt.foreignpolicy.com - 3/20/2009

A realistic approach to Iran's nuclear program

— walt.foreignpolicy.com — Dan Drezner is skeptical about trying to convince Iran to forego its nuclear program, and asks us... realists: "Why on God's green earth would Iran ever accede to an agreement whereby it gives up any autonomy in its nuclear program?" I'll ... (more) A realistic approach to Iran's nuclear program

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Is Obama appeasing the mullahs of Iran?
neo-neocon — Tigerhawk nails it.

Message to Iran
Belmont Club — Tigerhawk listened to President Obama’s appeal to Iran and laid out what he thought were the differences between the current and past administration’s positions. The essential difference was that America no longer wants regime change. It wants behavior change. Explicitly, President Obama is also addressing the “leaders of the Islamic Republic.” He is telling them that the United States recognizes the current regime’s right to exist, as it were, and that we are only seeking a change in its behavior. Technically, this was also the position of the Bush administration, but with two ...

Obama’s Appeasement Video To Iran Didn’t Do Squat
Flopping Aces — ... The question is, what good will this admission do us? … What goes does this admission — that you acted in that way then — do us now? … An admission years after the crime was committed, while they might be committing similar crimes now, will not do the Iranian nation any good. (xxv) And now Iran says you want better relations Obama? Stop fighting us about a nuke and give up Israel and THEN we will sit down with you. Tigerhawk puts it well: Americans, in the end, should understand this and be ...