jpost.com - 2/5/2009
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Russia plans to begin operating the nuclear reactor it has been building for Iran before the end of 2009, the Interfax News Agency quoted a top official as saying on Thursday. "If there are no unforeseen events... then the launch will go according to the timetable," Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of ...
breitbart.com - 2/6/2009
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breitbart.com —
MUNICH (AP) - Iran sternly dismissed decades of
U.S. policies targeting Tehran and declared Friday that the...
new American administration had to admit past wrongs before it could hope for reconciliation. The comments by Iranian parliamentary speaker ...
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Iran: US must rethink policies for reconciliation
michaelyon-online.com - 2/10/2009
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michaelyon-online.com —
10 February 2009 While we prepare to shunt
perhaps 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan (which still will...
not be enough), Russia continues to play the Asian chessboard. The Russians are picking off pawn after pawn, and steadily eroding our foreign ...
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How Much is Afghanistan Really Worth to Us?
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 2/4/2009
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com —
Uh-oh. The Obama administration's first big gesture toward
Tehran is to dispatch a women's badminton team to...
help build cultural ties: The Obama administration is sending a women’s badminton team to Iran this week as part of a broad bid to engage the ...
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Badminton diplomacy
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Iran Continues Playing Obama For a Fool
A Blog For All —
... willingness to throw US national security under the bus in the name of "diplomacy". Let us just ignore the decades of Iranian-backed terrorism against the US, the acts of war by Iran against the US beginning in 1979 that remain unanswered to this day, and the backing of proxy armies throughout the Middle East that seek to attack our allies and our strategic interests. It comes even as Russian officials say that the Bushehr reactor is going to be online before 2010 - in other words: this year . The Europeans, who are already within range of Iran's longest range missiles, are ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/6/2009
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... Iran: Russia Official: Bushehr Plant to Go Live in ‘09 Russia plans to begin operating the nuclear reactor it has been building for Iran before the end of 2009, the Interfax News Agency quoted a top official as saying on Thursday. Rosatom chief Sergey Kiriyenko. “If there are no unforeseen events… then the launch will go according to the timetable,” Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, was quoted as saying. “The launch is scheduled for this year.” […] Iran ...
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