theglobeandmail.com - 12/24/2008
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When Barack Obama takes office in January, he will be greeted by many difficult challenges, beginning with the acute economic crisis. But he will not have the luxury of focusing on this exclusively. He will also have to contend with an array of foreign policy challenges. Of these, Iran and its ...
topics.nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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topics.nytimes.com —
News about Ali Khamenei, including commentary and archival
articles published in The New York Times. Highlights From
the Archives Chief Cleric of Iran Defends President By NAZILA FATHI Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement of support for President ...
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Ali Khamenei News - The New York Times
thinkprogress.org - 12/30/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Yesterday, on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, Iran war
hawk John Bolton said that Israel’s recent bombing campaign
in Gaza is all the more reason for the United States to bomb Iran now. “So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, ...
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Bolton: Gaza Crisis Means We Should Attack Iran Now
news.yahoo.com - 12/31/2008
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TEHRAN, Iran Hard-line Iranian student groups have asked
the government to authorize volunteers to go carry out
suicide bombings in Israel in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had not ...
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Volunteer suicide bombers seek to attack Israel - Yahoo! ...
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Let’s talk Iran out of nuclear weapons…
neo-neocon —
…says Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations. Sure, why not?
Actually, Haass’s article is not really as insane as it may sound. His rather half-hearted and even desperate argument goes something like this: all the alternatives are bad, so let’s give this one a go. Maybe we can sweeten the deal enough to make it worth Iran’s while to abandon its dogged pursuit of nuclear weapons. But perhaps not.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement. Whether there’s even a chance of such a thing succeeding depends on how ...
The Definition of Insanity: Richard Haass and “Talking Iran Out of the Bomb”
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Perhaps unsurprisingly, the suggestions he offers (whose title – “We must talk Iran out of the bomb” – is so laughable that one wonders if the G&M’s headline writer chose it for parody purposes alone), though they are couched as “new” advice for the incoming Obama administration and echo many Liberals’ suggestions for future policy, are largely composed of the exact same things the Bush administration has been doing for the last six years – not that you would know it from listening to critics who make a living decrying the outgoing administration for ...
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